The Peninsula Girls Chorus (PGC) is excited to be in their third decade as they continue to reach singers across the San Francisco peninsula with their excellent program. They have over 200 girls in six different chorus levels. Girls can start singing with us as early as age 6 and they move up through the levels as they mature and gain choral experience and expertise. Their six chorus levels are as follows:
In addition to two major concerts every year, their girls perform throughout the community at retirement centers, company galas, tree lightings, professional and collegiate sporting events, and other events as they present themselves. Their performing groups, Concerta and Ensemble, participate in a choir tour every other year.
Besides all of the work and educational emphasis on performance practice and vocal technique, their girls have instruction in musicianship and music theory. All of their conductors have been trained in the Kodaly approach to music education (developed by Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly) and they have experience teaching in school music classrooms in addition to their work as choral conductors. Their conductors help their girls to learn to read music at sight, and also to demonstrate their knowledge through written musicianship work by completing all five book levels in the series, “A Young Singer’s Journey: An Integrated Approach to Music Literacy”
