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The Choir “Harmonies Girls Choir” is an independent all-girls choral arts organization based in Los Angeles, California, USA. The choir is comprised of girls ages 8 through 18 under the musical direction of orchestral and choral conductor Maestro Antonio Espinal, founder of the choir. Established in 2002, HARMONIES is one of the most dynamic and versatile girl's choirs in the city of Los Angeles.
Past events:OUR SUCCESSFUL INTERNATIONAL TOUR MEXICO 2008 HARMONIES GIRLS CHOIR was professionally booked for performing at the prestigious IX FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE LAS ARTES LUMINARIA 2008 9th International Festival of the Arts "LUMINARIA" in Atizapan de Zaragoza, State of Mexico (Metropolitan Mexico City). The performances took place on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th October, 2008. We were the only group representing the USA from an international group of performers, dancers, actors, writers, painters, and musicians from Latin America and Europe. -CONGRATULATIONS!- .
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NEWS Maestro Antonio Espinal was the only guest conductor from Los Angeles to participate with two choruses -Harmonies Girls Choir and the OLA Spanish Cathedral Choir- at the Hollywood Bowl
for the concert welcoming Selected members of Harmonies Girls choir performed Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Los Angeles Masterchorale and 7 other choirs. ___________ 10 years old member and main soloist of Harmonies win Top Award in a competition
Breanna Flores, who is just 10 years old, member of HARMONIES was announced top winner of the "2009 Rotary Club Of Hollywood scholarship/award ", receiving the Les Remsen Award ($ 500.00) and 3rd prize winner at the regional competition! Breanna participated with a extremely difficult song, for Soprano coloratura "Frühlingsstimmen" sung in GERMAN ("voices of spring", about 7 minutes long) By J. Straus, and Ave Maria, by Schubert. Breanna has been a private student of Maestro Antonio Espinal, who prepared her for the competition meticulously, and who was also her accompanist during the competition. Things that the jury admired were her clean coloraturas, easy high notes and acute intonation. -CONGRATULATIONS, BREANNA!-
Funny facts about our CD Our CD was first released as an independent production under the name FESTEJO DE NAVIDAD (Christmas Festivity). Then, a major FRENCH label distributed it internationally, releasing it on June 18th, 2007 as "POR EL VALLE DE ROSAS" (On the valley of Roses). Finally, the CD was released in the American continent with the name "NAVIDAD EN ESPAÑOL" (Christmas in Spanish). So, our exciting CD has 3 names! Our International CD, was officially released in France at the Top Classical Music International "Festival de Saint- Denis 2007 " on the day of our performance. The French label MILAN JADE has signed a contract with our music director Antonio Espinal with his Harmonies Girls Choir to be part of the roster of exclusive artists under this prestigious label. We hope this will be the begining of a sucessful series of music projects. Wait for our second CD under preparation! Look at our record company's site at Milan Records GET THE CD on AMAZON GET THE music NOW! on iTunes __________________________________ FRENCH REVIEW Read a Professional review (In French) of our sucessful Concert at the Saint Denis Festival (Paris) on June 18. The concert took place at the magnificent Saint Denis Basilique on a 2 hours all Mexican/Californian music concert, with an audience of over 900 people! HARMONIES was the only American Choir invited to perform there, on a Festival which included the KRONOS QUARTET, Conductors Gustavo Dudamel, Kurt Masur, and singer Dawn Upshaw. --------------------------Read here
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