The Minnesota Girls’ Choir is led by Jonathan Kirkham. He started the choir in 2016 for his two young daughters, who watched their older brother go to boys’ choir rehearsal every week (and wondered out loud why there wasn’t a girls’ choir for them).

Jon was born and raised in Minnesota, and he sang in the Armstrong High School Concert Choir and Chamber Singers. At Brigham Young University, he sang in the Men’s Chorus and Concert Choir. He was also the executive director and is currently a board member for the North Star Boys’ Choir.

The purpose of the girls’ choir is modeled after the traditional boys’ choir: to create a semi-professional choral experience for young singers.  We learn proper posture, good singing techniques, and respectful behavior.  We sing a variety of music, including classical, folk, sacred, and modern songs.  The songs are moderately challenging, with up to four-part SSAA harmonies.

Fall 2024 syllabus:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cd9JZJbpnTPlvIJuHgTSylu6h9DYwwsPYIaBRbdZOwM/edit?usp=sharing

Songs performed in the past:

• Star-Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith)
• Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World (arr. Israel Iz Kamakawiwo’ole)
• Turn Around (arr. Ronald Staheli)
• How Can I Keep From Singing? (arr. Sally DeFord)
• I See the Light, from Tangled (arr. Mac Huff)
• For the Beauty of the Earth (John Rutter)
• Shenandoah (arr. Brad Printz)
• Bring Me Little Water Silvy (arr. Moira Smiley)
• Do Re Mi, from The Sound of Music (arr. Rick Hein)
• O Great God (arr. Dan Forrest)
• Jesus Once Was a Little Child (James Murray, Joseph Ballantyne)
• Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Johann Sebastian Bach)

To sign up, fill out this form:
https://forms.gle/VT44ShQC9p61q2by9