Claire Domenick

Master Director

 

We are sad to report that after 24 glittering years as our Master Director, Claire Domenick has announced she will retire in 2023. 

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Claire’s combination of musical excellence and a warm and fun-loving style have brought Greater Harrisburg Chorus an impressive array of honors, including the championship of the World Choir Games in 2012, six regional Sweet Adelines gold medals and the silver medal in the 2019 Sweet Adelines Harmony Classic contest. 

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In Claire's final competition as Master Director, the chorus captured a pair of championship gold medals, winning the overall chorus contest and the AA midsize chorus division. Greater Harrisburg qualified for the Super Bowl of women's barbershop music, Sweet Adelines International competition, which will be held in October of 2024 in Kansas City, Mo..

 

For Claire, music has always been a family affair. She was drawn to barbershop harmony at a young age, performing with her sisters in a family quartet, The Busy Bees. The quartet appeared on shows all over the East Coast and even on TV’s “Ted Mack Amateur Hour.”

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She followed her mother into Sweet Adelines International, where she earned a world championship gold medal with the Valley Forge Chorus.

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An accomplished tenor, she has won several regional gold medals and sang with the 2000 Sweet Adelines International Quartet Champion Signature Sound. Claire’s daughter Nicole Domenick Hartshorn serves as chorus choreographer.

 

Claire has served Sweet Adelines International as a director mentor and member of the Atlantic Bay-Mountain regional management team, and is in demand as a coach to choruses and quartets. In recognition of the chorus’s high contest scores she was promoted to Master Director, one of the highest honors a musical leader can attain in Sweet Adelines International. 

 

Claire and her husband Tony reside in Malvern, PA. They have four children and nine grandchildren. 

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