Welcome to WIFYS, the UK's first-ever international youth singing festival, organised by Sing UK in association with the European Choral Association - Europa Cantat (ECA-EC). A week-Long festival of music, friendship and discovery awaits! Highlights will...  moreWelcome to WIFYS, the UK's first-ever international youth singing festival, organised by Sing UK in association with the European Choral Association - Europa Cantat (ECA-EC). A week-Long festival of music, friendship and discovery awaits! Highlights will include a final night Gala Concert in Worcester's magnificent cathedral, featuring the World Premiere of a specially commissioned work from UK composer Bob Chilcott (Five Days that Changed the World with words by Charles Bennett), individual choirs' concerts in venues in and around the historic city of Worcester, sight-seeing trips and activities for visiting choirs, Welcome Concert in the cathedral, and a concert for participants given by a leading UK vocal group. With the festival being the first event of its kind in the UK, we have taken as our theme, 'Peace & Unity', to reaffirm the continuing mission of ECA-EC, and our own shared aspirations, to work towards a more peaceful world through the engagement of young people from different nations coming togethe...    less

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   It doesn’t take Long to form a habit. Sometimes just a tea break, let alone a whole lunchtime. But it can take ages to break a habit.    ...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Many choirs will be starting back soon after a Long break.   photo by velkr0   This is the perfect time to shake things up a bit if y...

Joshua Nice is composer in residence for From Age to Age. Joshua's music is beloved by audiences across MN and the upper-Midwest. His music fuses many styles and techniques; Ancient Chant, Medieval organum, Russian orthodox liturgy, and the shimmering har...  moreJoshua Nice is composer in residence for From Age to Age. Joshua's music is beloved by audiences across MN and the upper-Midwest. His music fuses many styles and techniques; Ancient Chant, Medieval organum, Russian orthodox liturgy, and the shimmering harmonies of modern choral music, to name a few. Audience members often comment that Josh's music is their favorite part of a From Age to Age concert, or they will ask Josh why we didn't perform another known favorite of theirs that Josh has written. Nice's music is well suited for advanced high-school, collegiate, community and professional choirs. Joshua is accepting commissions for the upcoming 2012-2013 season. If you're interested in commissioning Joshua to write a piece for your group, and/or if you would like to purchase his music, email: joshua_g_nice@hotmail.com or find him on facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Joshua-G-Nice/274021048193  less

DOWLAIS SING DYLAN We are pleased to contribute to the centenary celebrations of Dylan Thomas’s birth in 1914. We as a Choir are proud to be mentioned in Under Milk Wood, when the question is asked, “How’s the Tenors in Dowlais” One of our favourite s...  moreDOWLAIS SING DYLAN We are pleased to contribute to the centenary celebrations of Dylan Thomas’s birth in 1914. We as a Choir are proud to be mentioned in Under Milk Wood, when the question is asked, “How’s the Tenors in Dowlais” One of our favourite songs has to be the Rev Eli Jenkins’ Sunset Poem from Under Milk Wood. If you want to hear the “Tenors in Dowlais” please listen to this recording, done recently in our practice hall. We hope you will be pleased with our tribute to this famous son of Wales, Dylan Thomas. Please enjoy!  less

     Praise in Public for legitimate accomplishment, don’t pander. Create challenging but attainable goals; short term, mid-term and Long term. Take trips to both destinations and festivals, combined trips are best Schedul...

The European Overtone Choir is an open project choir. Twice a year a week-Long workshop will be offered. Anyone with choral experience can participate. More information http://www.overtonechoir.eu.

Patrick McCarthy founded the Colchester Bach Choir in November 1992 when he agreed to train a choir to perform a baroque programme with Frederick Marshall and the Lavenham Sinfonia in Long Melford Church. The success of this project led to a charity perfo...  morePatrick McCarthy founded the Colchester Bach Choir in November 1992 when he agreed to train a choir to perform a baroque programme with Frederick Marshall and the Lavenham Sinfonia in Long Melford Church. The success of this project led to a charity performance of Messiah co-directed by Patrick and Peter Holman at the Swinburne Hall, Colchester Institute, which was part broadcast by Classic FM. Since then the choir has presented three or four concerts each season in Colchester (usually at St. Botolph's Church), often featuring baroque music. Many of the original members still sing with the choir, which is intended for experienced choristers (members sing with other choirs and some have solo careers) who can sight read well and respond to direction, thus enabling concerts to be performed with only two or three rehearsals. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Colchester-Bach-Choir/330623297057?ref=hl  less

Be inspired and make a real difference at Hand In Hand, Melbourne Town Hall, SaturDay 10th December, 3pm    Do you Long to listen to beautiful arias from your favourite operas, groove to gospel and swoon to classics that you know and...

Presented by the School of Hard Knocks Melbourne Town Hall, SaturDay 10th December, 3pm    Do you Long to listen to beautiful arias from your favourite operas, groove to gospel and swoon to classics that you know and love?  Do you w...