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blog: How to choose soloists in your choir: audition or self-selection?

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Rather than everyone singing all the Time, many choirs ring the changes by creating smaller ensembles within the larger choir or have occasional solo...

blog: New Year - New opportunities in 2018 with meeting music

Dear Fans of choral music! January is the Time for re-start and New Year’s resolutions! We do not promise anything else to you, but in the way you always believed in: a great festive season full of exciting music programs. NEW: Find out about...

blog: How to plan your new choir season

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   It’s that Time of year again. Summer is over and choir starts back. We choir leaders will be thinking about which songs to teach for the next s...

Before the downbeat
video: Before the downbeat

the moment before a concert begins, when singers and audience members wait for the downbeat, is a magical Time. Our first video seeks to capture that shared moment - the hushed anticipation, the sound of coordinated footsteps, the group intake of breath....  more

blog: Stop me if you’ve sung this before: learning different versions of songs you already know

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   A while back I taught a song wrongly. Not for the first Time!     Even though I corrected myself quickly, the original version stuck in peo...

blog: Male Choirs --- what will you sing next?

Did you think about changing your program for 2016 Celebration and Rehearsal year? Through the past years of competition and festival we found many choirs enjoying their Time with    - Salutatio AngeFlica by Domenico Bartolucci   ...

blog: Singing competitions are for losers

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   It’s that Time again here in the UK: Choir of the Year 2012 auditions are under way.     Quite often choir members come up to me t...

blog: In 2017 reaching again to the Stars in the city of Copernicus

PER MUSICAM AD ASTRA International Copernicus Choir Festival & Competition will for the 5th Time present a great opportunity for integration of the choral community and promotion of choral music. Its name refers to the figure of the famous astronomer Nico...

blog: Using sheet music to teach and learn songs: pros and cons

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Last Time I looked at what music notation is for and if you need it to sing.   Sight reading by discopalace   This week I’d like to ...

blog: the Inner Game of Choral Rehearsals

This post originally appeared on Helping You Harmonise in August 2009   I’ve been threatening since last winter to write about how the Inner Game ideas can inform rehearsal techniques, and the Time has at last arrived. This pos...