[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Occasionally a Rehearsal goes totally pear-shaped and I have no idea why.     photo by hebedesign   Despite my best efforts everythi...

To order the score, go to: http://sydneyguillaumemusic.com/portfolio-items/plakatap/ ----- For Practice Tracks, go to: http://sydneyguillaumemusic.com/portfolio-items/plakatap/ ----- ----- English Poetic Translation: Children of all countries, Y...  moreTo order the score, go to: http://sydneyguillaumemusic.com/portfolio-items/plakatap/ ----- For Practice Tracks, go to: http://sydneyguillaumemusic.com/portfolio-items/plakatap/ ----- ----- English Poetic Translation: Children of all countries, Youth from everywhere, Sing, jump, dance! On foot or by bike, Our bags on our backs, Plakatap -- Plakatap, Plakatap -- Plakatap! Let's party, let's sing! Let's celebrate Humanity with one heart, And let us all sing our Fraternity in chorus! Regardless of what's happening, In spite of the distance, We are one family Of young men and women. Let us dwell in the Unity Of one Humanity. Sing, jump, dance! Plakatap -- Plakatap! United in the same love, Let us go day by day, Singing, jumping up and down, dancing The Fraternal Dance Of the children of the World. Plakatap -- Plakatap, Plakatap -- Plakatap! ------ Performed by the Miami Children's Chorus. Timothy A. Sharp, Director.  less

Greetings fellow choral educators!   Please feel Free to click on the links below to hear some of my latest choral music.  Send me an email if you would like some sheet music (great prices)!  I’m also accepting four more commissions...

This Free online workshop presented by the Royal School of Church Music with acclaimed conductor David Hill (director of the Bach Choir, Principal Conductor of Yale Schola Cantorum, and conductor of the BBC Singers from 2007-17) will offer practical advic...

SATURDAY 23 APRIL at 7.30pm ST ANDREW'S CHURCH, BEDFORD, MK40 2PF - website www.standrewsbedford.orgTickets £10 / £8 / £4 / Free.  Call 01234 216881 or email musa@saintandrewsbedford.org

Come try us out for 3 Free Rehearsals, and then it's a quick voice check (not really an audition) and you're one of us! We're a group of about 20 men & women, and sing in 3 or 4 (or more) part harmony. Quorum love to raise money for local causes - ...  moreCome try us out for 3 Free Rehearsals, and then it's a quick voice check (not really an audition) and you're one of us! We're a group of about 20 men & women, and sing in 3 or 4 (or more) part harmony. Quorum love to raise money for local causes - covering all sorts of charities, in all sorts of venues. Quorum Singers of St Albans has been singing for over 25 years, and perform around 3 times a year in St Albans or locally in Hertfordshire. We rehearse once a week on Wednesdays, throughout the term time, and can often be found performing in Christopher Place around Christmas time!  less

"In His Care" performed at Calvary Evangelical Free Church in Rochester, MN on 10-1-2011. Director - Al Reesnes

If you’re a singer on your way to a voice lesson, Rehearsal, or audition, it’s always good to do a bit of warming up in the car, because there are few things more annoying to music directors than singers wasting time complaining that they&rsqu...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   It’s the final Rehearsal before your big concert. The warm up is over and everyone is ready to go. But a handful of singers (the usual suspects...

Erik Satie's Sarabande No. 1 is one of my favourite piano pieces. For a long time, I felt there was an a cappella choral piece hiding within it, in plain sight. One day I got inspired and gave it a try. Creating a choral adaptation of a piano piece ha...  moreErik Satie's Sarabande No. 1 is one of my favourite piano pieces. For a long time, I felt there was an a cappella choral piece hiding within it, in plain sight. One day I got inspired and gave it a try. Creating a choral adaptation of a piano piece has its challenges. I tried to keep faithful to Satie's original musical inspiration and created lyrics to go with my arrangement that evoke an early summer morning, one of my favourite times of the year. Several months later, I applied to be a participant at one of the Vancouver Chamber Choir's Interplay workshops funded by the SOCAN Foundation and to my delight I was accepted. "As dawn breaks" was one of the pieces that this amazing choir sight read for me on the spot. VCC director Jon Washburn and choir members then provided me with valuable feedback, for which I am very grateful. NB: One day I woke up to the realization that I had independently written four choral works, each of which had evoked a different season, and so it seemed natural to group ...    less