Adelaide Girls Choir

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The Adelaide Girls Choir is a large girls' choir in Adelaide, South Australia, run by Deborah Munro. They have won many international awards as well as at home and interstate. They have recently changed their name to the Young Adelaide Voices, which will provide many new opportunities for them, such as being able to compete with adult choirs.

The Adelaide Girls Choir is a community choir with a dual focus on excellence and fellowship. In a context of fun and friendship, the choir has enjoyed great success since its creation in 1988. The choir has 250 members aged 5 to 25 years old, placed in 7 choirs according to age and experience. The choristers sing for a wide variety of functions, from community events to national and international conferences. In addition, the choir often performs as guest artists for professional organisations such as the Adelaide Festival Centre, the South Australian Police Band and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, with whom they have sung over 40 times and recorded one of their 6 CDs.

There have been four overseas tours to the UK, Europe, Canada and America, as well as interstate trips to Brisbane, Canberra and New South Wales. Their international performances have earned the choir world renown. The Concert Choir has given recitals in such memorable places as Westminster Abbey, St Martin-in-the-Fields and St Paul's Cathedral, and even Disneyland in America. In 1996, they were awarded 1st prize summa cum laude for their performance in the European Youth Choral Festival, and were subsequently presented with the Key to the City of Adelaide.