The Peninsula Women's Chorus (PWC) is a Palo Alto-based, 50-voice women's choir performing high-quality classical and contemporary music in the Bay Area and many parts of the world. Committed to excellence in the performance of diverse and challenging choral literature for women's voices, the PWC has come to national and international attention through live performance and recordings and has added significantly to the choral literature by commissioning new music. The chorus inspires and enriches its audiences in the Bay Area through its concert series, its ongoing program of premiering new works, and its numerous collaborations with other Bay Area performing groups.
PWC now on iTunes and Amazon
PWC's latest album, Nature Pictures, is now available on iTunes
and at Amazon.com.
You can now send a virtual CD to family and friend far away. Please check
this out and while you're there leave a comment about PWC and Nature
Pictures. Of course you can still purchase all our (non-virtual) CDs on our recordings page.
PWC's 8th Annual Gala Event
Sapphire Serenade
Many thanks to our 2012 Gala Donors who helped make last year's event a great success. We couldn't have done it without your generosity - thank you!
How do we arrive at the joys of spring? In our Journey to Spring, join us on a magic ride, from the primal spells and incantations of
"Urok" by Slovenian composer Lojze Lebic, to the delight of exuberant
recorder accompaniment in le Jeune's "Welcome to Spring".
Slovenian repertoire from our recent European tour is featured
alongside our special American section, which includes settings of
e.e. cummings' poetry: Vincent Persichetti's Spring Cantata, Gwyneth
Walker's "I thank you God" and "in time of daffodils" by Kirstina
Rasmussen. Journey with us from the mysterious to the sublime!
For more information, please visit our concerts page.
News
PWC's "The Face & Heart of New Music" video
Finalist, 2011 CreaTV awards
How is new music created? What is the creative process from the initial inception to the final performance?
Come for a behind the scenes look at the world wide premiere of "Face & Heart" (co-commissioned by the Peninsula Women's Chorus, Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir, and Crystal Children's Choir). From the selection of the composer to the first ever performance with a 200 voice choir, with interviews with the composer, poet and the artistic directors.
