Experience VoiceGivers!
VoiceGivers Choir performs "You Do Not Walk Alone" by Dominick DiOrio at a benefit concert for the Pediatric Palliative Care Coalition. Choir conducted by Joseph Stuligross. Performance at Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church as part of its Special Music Series.
Mission
VoiceGivers is a professional chamber choir founded in Pittsburgh in 2019 with a mission to raise awareness of significant social and economic issues in our community. In partnership with nonprofit organizations, VoiceGivers presents choral performances that are intended to engage and inspire.
Goals
"Music Makes the Difference"
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Music
Under the leadership of Artistic Director Joseph Stuligross, the VoiceGivers Choir provides audiences with exceptional performances of unique and diverse music, blending pieces by living composers with many centuries of choral repertoire.
Our goal is to share the professional talents of the choir through striking, thought-provoking, stimulating music.
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Inspiration
Each program spotlights a need and features musical selections that evoke emotions related to the theme. The programs are created in partnership with and to support a nonprofit organization that works to alleviate the need.
Our goal is to inspire those who attend our performances to understand the need through the music and to be inspired to find a way to help.
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Connection
VoiceGivers Choir is a unique enterprise. Our performances bring together performers of top choral music with change-makers striving to solve and salve ills in our world.
Our goal is to connect audience participants to the music and the cause.
“We sometimes evoke … we sometimes provoke.
Come ready to enjoy … and prepared to grow.”
Joe Stuligross | Artistic Director & Co-Founder
History
VoiceGivers Choir was formed in the summer of 2019 by Joe Stuligross and Deb Sadowski as the culmination of an ongoing conversation about this question:
How can beautiful music produced by fantastic singers be directed toward the betterment of our world?
Talented singers love to share music with audiences. Volunteers are fulfilled when their energies are making a difference. And indeed, there is great need for help in our city and region. We kept pondering how we might combine these two opportunities, passions of ours, into one initiative.
Taking the leap of faith to start the choir happened quickly. A lunch with an accomplished choir director and former college mate of Joe’s, a long car ride, then longer bike ride, and we were on our way!
Our first season’s programming came together rapidly, with a theme of Giving Help and Hope to Vulnerable Children. We’re so grateful to Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church (FCPC) and its Director of Music Ministries Dr. David Billings for inviting us to perform our inaugural program as part of their Special Music Event Series. The Pediatric Palliative Care Coalition is a fabulous nonprofit agency partner, founded originally as a program of FCPC and now serving state-wide and national caregivers and clinicians who are working together to help medically fragile children. Subsequent programs have supported Holy Family Institute and its programs supporting children in need, and Wilkinsburg Community Ministry, an organization addressing human services needs. Streaming programs during the global pandemic have kept music vital in the hearts of our listeners and have continued to support organizations during a time of unparalleled need.
Our history is brief and fresh, being written by the talented singers, dedicated volunteers, venue hosts, and dedicated nonprofit organizations we’re blessed to be connecting with.
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