Michael John Trotta

At the piano: Dmitry Semenovsky. The lyrics of the song is a translation from Goethe's "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt."

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Some people really struggle when it comes to learning a song by ear. Often it’s singers who are used to using sheet music, but not always. &nb...

Barcarolle Choir and its Musical Director, ​Sam Evans, are delighted to announce their next performance in June 2019.The evening will propose a wide range of pieces from a multitude of composers such as Chilcott, Verdi, D. Ellington, Webber, Berlioz, Bach...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Sometimes we’re asked to lead a rehearsal or run a singing workshop or perform a song and we do our job very well. But afterwards we don’t feel...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Some years ago I did some voice-only arrangements of Queen songs for a weekend workshop. I ended up listening to a lot of Queen recordings!   ...

Promotional video. Text: Latin Music: Laura Jēkabsone www.latvianvoices.lv https://www.facebook.com/LatvianVoices/ https://play.spotify.com/artist/54mSCDWB34Q2WPfEHWJru5

Since 2008 we have been coming together in central London to learn and perform sea-shanties, murder ballads, protest songs, work songs, love melodies, folkified non-folksongs, and good old knees-up tunes, from across the centuries and all over the world.

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Last week I looked at how you get beyond the written word if you've been learning lyrics from sheets of paper.     This week I want to look a...