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Elm City Girls' Choir Spring Concert

The Elm City Girls’ Choir

presents its annual Spring Concert

The Elm City Girls’ Choir is excited to announce its annual Spring Concert. The performance will be held on Friday, May 2, 7:30pm, at United Church on the Green in New Haven, CT. This concert will feature all divisions of The Elm City Girls’ Choir, New England’s most highly acclaimed girls’ choral ensemble, performing choral music spanning several centuries and genres.  Tickets are available in advance for a suggested donation of $8.00 for adults & $5.00 for students and seniors, or at the door for $10.00 for adults & $6.00 for students and seniors.  All proceeds will benefit the United Choir School Scholarship Fund.  For further information please call (203) 787-1244 or e-mail info@unitedchoir.com.

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 The Elm City Girls' Choir The Elm City Girls' Choir is New England's most highly acclaimed girls' choral ensemble.  Based in New Haven, the Choir has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Walt Disney World, and on CBS Television.  Since its founding in 1993, ECGC has performed with many respected choral groups, such as the New York Virtuoso Singers, CONCORA, The Yale Glee Club, The Yale Camerata, Newark Boy’s Chorus and Village Harmony, and with professional orchestras including the Boston Philharmonic, New Haven Symphony, Yale Symphony, and Moscow State Orchestra.  In addition, the Choir has been featured at conferences of the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association and the United Church of Christ Musicians Association.  In September, 2001, ECGC performed God Bless America with Diana Ross at the women's finals match of the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament.  In 2004, ECGC embarked upon a tour of Southern England, which included collaborations with Malcolm Archer, David Ogden, Paul Walton and the Bristol Cathedral Girls’ Choir, and in 2008 ECGC completed a concert tour of California and Mexico. In the summer of 2010 ECGC toured Italy. ECGC is the premier ensemble of United Choir School LLC, a private, non-sectarian educational organization that provides musical training and performance opportunities to over 550 talented young musicians, ages 6-18, throughout Connecticut.  In addition to the Elm City Girls' Choir, United Choir School operates satellite ensembles (United Girls' Choir) in Branford, Cheshire, Clinton, Hamden, Killingworth, Madison, Milford, Shelton, and North Haven, and is currently in the process of establishing additional chapters in communities throughout the state.  The School's mission is to foster a deep commitment to the realization of personal and artistic potential in an environment that engenders cooperation, creativity, self-discipline, and, above all, an earnest respect for all people.  For more information about the United Girls’ Choir or the Elm City Girls’ Choir please call (203) 787-1244 or e-mail info@unitedchoir.com.

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