[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from almost 30 years of leading non-auditioned community choirs in the UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of songs from traditions ac...

When most people think of choir warmups, they picture scales, tongue twisters, or breathing exercises - all designed to help Singers find their pitch, focus their sound, and prepare for rehearsal. And of course, that’s exactly what warmups do, and w...

Many directors, even though they deeply care and want to give their Singers the best, simply can’t afford to commission new works or secure premieres. Odes of Love is an honest work—an ode to what we love most: life itself...

Choral Holidays is a small company that specialises in taking groups of amateur Singers to beautiful locations and forming them into choirs. Last year we took a group to the beautiful location of Milton Abbey in Dorset, and also to Florence, where we sta...

The Student Choir of the Belarus State Academy of Music (BSAM) was formed by the BSAM Department of Choral Conducting.Today under the direction of Inessy Bodyako the student choir with well known conductors represents the project «Choral pages of the XX-t...  moreThe Student Choir of the Belarus State Academy of Music (BSAM) was formed by the BSAM Department of Choral Conducting.Today under the direction of Inessy Bodyako the student choir with well known conductors represents the project «Choral pages of the XX-th century» in which frameworks concerts of modern Polish, Swiss and Bulgarian choral music have already taken place. Students of chorus constantly take part in master classes of leading representatives of foreign choral culture.  

Академический хор Нижегородского Государственного Университета им. Н. И. Лобачевского. Выступление на фестивале "Молодые голоса-2012" в Нижнем Новгороде. Alfred Schnittke - Three Sacred Hymns: III. Our Father (The Lord's Prayer)

The Academic Male Voice Choir of Helsinki – Akademiska Sångföreningen or Akademen in Swedish – is a Fennoswedish (i.e. Swedish-speaking) male voice student choir based in the Finnish capital of Helsinki. The choir was founded in 1838 by Fredrik Pacius and...  moreThe Academic Male Voice Choir of Helsinki – Akademiska Sångföreningen or Akademen in Swedish – is a Fennoswedish (i.e. Swedish-speaking) male voice student choir based in the Finnish capital of Helsinki. The choir was founded in 1838 by Fredrik Pacius and is the oldest extant choir in Finland. At present, Akademen has around 60 active Singers, most of whom are University students. However, quite a few choose to stay in the active choir long after graduation, which makes for a healthy mix of youth and experience. We give concerts regularly in Finland, and travel abroad as frequently as possible. In addition to all the Scandinavian and most European countries, Akademen has been on tour in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Singapore. We believe that ambitious musical development can go hand-in-hand with tradition, and work enthusiastically to keep alive the dialogue between past and present.  less

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I don’t like rehearsing. I’d much rather turn up on the day, trust the Singers I’m working with and just busk it.      ...

Мужской состав Академического хора ННГУ исполняет казачью народную песню "Терская плясовая" (концерт 25.12.2010) Men of the NNSU Academic Choir perform cossack folk song "Terek's song" (concert 25.12.2010)

The best young Singers Northwest Indiana has to offer. Performs exclusively in the summer months. Auditions and interviews typically held in May.