West Philadelphia Children's Choir

is now the Singing City Children's Choir
Please visit us at www.singingcity.org

We are delighted to announce that the West Philadelphia Children's Choir and Singing City Choir have merged. The West Philadelphia Children's Choir will now be called Singing City Children's Choir. We are delighted that these two great organizations, with their common mission, will now reach children and adults.

What does this mean?

  • West Philadelphia Children�s Choir will become an integral part of Singing City with a new name: Singing City�s Children�s Choir
  • More children throughout the city can participate in the future
  • Almost no change for the first year in either organization�s structure
  • Increased opportunities for programming and performances for the Children�s Choir
  • Joint concerts, visits to retirement homes, performances with other non-profits (i.e. Mural Arts openings), and new exciting singing venues
  • Members of Singing City Choir can choose to mentor Children�s Choir singers, sharing music and support with both children and families
  • Enlarged Children�s Choir divides into age groups in the future
  • Increased visibility, profile recognition

The merger was accomplished through a generous grant to Singing City from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage through the Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative.

Steve Fisher, Music Director

He is co-founder and associate artistic director of the Commonwealth Youth choirs, a non-profit organization that administers the Keystone State Boychoir and the Keystone State Girlchoir. He also serves as the associate music director and the managing director of the Keystone State Boychoir. From 1994 until 2001, Fisher served as the assistant director of the Philadelphia Boys Choir.

Mr. Fisher has undergraduate degrees in music education and history, as well as a Masters in Music from Temple's Esther Boyer College of Music. He has studied conducting with Alan Harler, composition with Richard Broadhead, arranging with Alice Parker, and piano with Alexander Fiorello. In 1998, Temple University awarded him the prestigious Presser Foundation Award, which recognizes a graduate student who has the potential to make an outstanding contribution in the music world.

Fisher is a composer of musical theater. His work, Mandela, has been presented at the Tony award-winning Crossroads Theater, at the John Houseman Theater in New York City, and at the Windybrow Theatre in Johannesburg.  His musical Isabelle and the Pretty-Ugly Spell has been presented at the ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop (under the direction of Stephen Schwartz), at the York Theatre, at the Actors Playhouse in Coral Gables, Florida, and at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, where it received a rave review from the New York Times.

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