[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 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 across th...
The Fourth Choir (temporary name) will focus on performing great choral works - long and short, new and old, familiar and forGotten - and aim to sing at the highest competition standards and be semi-professional in a few Years time. We think that with al...
[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I started my first community choir over 20 Years aGo. I used to worry that, after the long summer break, the singers would have forGotten me and wouldn’...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I reckon I’m a fairly experienced teacher and workshop leader. I’ve been teaching in one form or another for almost 35 Years. &n...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] A few Years aGo conductor Kenneth Woods posted an item on his blog, A View from the Podium, about the problems of having to repeat oneself constantly in re...
[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] There have been plenty of UK television programmes over the Years which have involved solo singing auditions such as The Voice and X Factor. Comments...
[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 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 across th...
[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 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 across th...
In Cloudless Sunshine brings together many of Albion's favourite songs of the first few Years with some of the very special pieces which have been composed more recently. In 2015, a raft of innovative and beautiful new arrangements and compositions have...
Having been a director, I acknowledge that through the Years I have fallen prey to using cheap techniques – “tricks” that skirted around the issues of posture, tone production, breathing, vowel formation, physical awareness, an...
