Female Childrens Chorus

Based in Chattanooga, TN

The Chattanooga Girls Choir was founded by Mr. John Dyer under the moniker of "The Cantilena Singers." At the time, Mr. Dyer was faculty associate at Cadek Conservatory ("Cadek") in the Music Department of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga ("UTC"). Dr. Peter Gerschefski, head of the Music Department and Cadek wanted to start a children's choir at Cadek. Dr. Gerschefski knew about Mr. Dyer's background in choral music education so he asked him to form such a choir. However, Mr. Dyer believed that Chattanooga needed a choir especially for girls more than a co-educational children's choir because our city already had the long-standing Chattanooga Boys Choir but there was no similar opportunity for area girls. Mr. Dyer thereafter contacted local music teachers in area schools and asked them to identify and send any interested and talented girls to Cadek to audition for the new choir. Fifty girls auditioned and were all invited to become founding members of the ensemble. Within its first couple of years, the Cantilena Singers were renamed The Chattanooga Girls Choir (the "CGC").

Founded - 1986.   Auditioned.

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