SGC Welcomes new Artistic Director
Seattle Girls Choir is excited to welcome Sarra Sharif Doyle into her new role as our Artistic Director! Sarra was chosen from a set of gifted candidates after a national search, […]
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Then this blog is for you.
Here you will find notes from our Artistic Director, guest columns from alumnae, families, and faculty, sneak peeks into the rehearsal process, travel diaries from tours and competitions, and much more.
A Look Back on the 2021-2022 Season
Another year of choral education is in the books! And what a year it was. Starting with our summer camp programming, we tentatively made our way back to in-person rehearsals […]
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Getting Lost in the Music: A Class of 2022 Senior Essay
By Grey Karis-Sconyers Music has always been an important creative outlet for me. I spent most of my childhood singing a little too loudly in school choirs and tormenting my […]
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A “Senior Essay” from Jacob Winkler
By Jacob Winkler This is an interesting time for all you other graduates, as you are finishing up one stage of your lives (high school) and moving on to the […]
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Rolling with the Punches: A Class of 2022 Senior Essay
By Xahria Hatch I joined SGC halfway through 8th grade, and let me tell you that was hard. The week after I started rehearsals, everyone else sang The Star Spangled […]
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Clear and Strong Voices: A Class of 2022 Senior Essay
By Vesi Tsenkova SGC has been an after school staple for me for years now, and choosing a single moment to encompass the entire experience is close to impossible. I […]
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The Bond Beneath the Song: A Class of 2022 Senior Essay
By Arundati Iyer I sit alone on the dusty, empty riser on a stage in a large hall. I hear the footsteps of another girl who has also arrived early. […]
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Taken Away at the Sound: A Class of 2022 Senior Essay
By Sonya Fues Ever since I started choir in third grade, I have been completely entranced by the sound of PV singing. I knew, from the first time I heard […]
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Sense of Community: A Class of 2022 Senior Essay
By Sylvia Lindblad When I first joined SGC in 2013, I was in 4th grade, and I had never been part of an organization like this before. Although I had […]
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My Entire Understanding of Music Transformed: A Class of 2022 Senior Essay
By Abby Assadi One bright September day in 2017, I waltz through the front doors of the Volunteer Park Seventh Day Adventist Church, ready to start my first day at […]
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Now Hiring: Artistic Director
We are looking for our next Artistic Director! SGC seeks a highly skilled, energetic and inspiring choral conductor with proven ability to provide artistic, educational, and organizational leadership. Reporting to […]
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A Special Announcement from our Artistic Director
My Dearest Seattle Girls Choir Friends & Families, I am writing to let you know that the 2021-22 season will be my last with Seattle Girls Choir. I have accepted […]
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Part of a Beautiful Whole: A Class of 2021 Senior Essay
By Claire Balcom I joined SGC with the least amount of dramatic flair possible. For what would turn out to be a staggeringly life-altering decision, it was one I made […]
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The most beautiful music: A Class of 2021 Senior Essay
By Amelie Petit Most of the seniors who went to Wales with SGC write about it in their senior essay, and I am no different. We were running on 5 […]
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Leadership and Integrity: A Class of 2021 Senior Essay
By Ellie Rice I had thought that my senior essay would have to be my final goodbye before I graduate from this organization. After this, I officially wouldn’t get to […]
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Music Worthy of Creating Lifelong Memories: A Class of 2021 Senior Essay
By Sophia Hillstrom I have been in the Seattle Girls Choir for 9 years. I joined when I was in 4th grade when I started singing with Allegra. My most […]
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Introducing our Board of Directors Youth Representatives
Last fall, the SGC Board of Directors took an exciting step towards greater integration of youth voice into organizational governance by welcoming three choristers to the team as Youth Representatives. […]
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A Second Family- Class of 2020 Senior Essay by Lexie Moss
In Summer 2017 in Wales, at the Youth Folk category of the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, 28 girls walked onstage. Re-watching this performance, the camera’s distance renders our faces deceptively neutral. In […]
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“Confidence in Multitudes…” A Class of 2020 Senior Essay by Louise Schiele
I am both grateful and slightly resentful that my parents never enrolled me in an organized activity as a child. Other kids had soccer portraits on the fridge, dance photos […]
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“I am not afraid to try again…”- Class of 2020 Essay by Eva Zhou
Singing is something almost everyone does. Children sing, performers sing at ballgames, people sing along with the radio in their car…it’s a universal human activity. Because it can seem so […]
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