Get to Know: Margaret Heron, director, Birmingham Girls Choir

×Birmingham Girls Choir Director Margaret Heron leads a rehearsal with choristers. The nonprofit serves more than 130 girls across the metro area through performance and music education.

Q: Please tell our readers about the Birmingham Girls Choir. When and how was it founded?

A: In its beginning, BGC was started as the “Birmingham Children’s Choir” in 2001 by a professor at the University of Alabama, with funding from a grant. Over a decade later, when Amanda Klimko, long-time Birmingham music educator, became the executive director, the choir was changed to the “Birmingham Girls Choir” as Amanda knew that our city had an amazing boys choir established. For the next decade, BGC was extremely small in number but remained an organization of musical excellence. During the pandemic, BGC was