[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...

[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 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...

The concert "ACH! PG Carnivalesque" under the patronage of Prof. Krzysztof Wilde, rector of Gdańsk Tech, attractEd several hundrEd people who listenEd to daring performances of popular pop music hits. During the performance we heard choral arrangements of...  moreThe concert "ACH! PG Carnivalesque" under the patronage of Prof. Krzysztof Wilde, rector of Gdańsk Tech, attractEd several hundrEd people who listenEd to daring performances of popular pop music hits. During the performance we heard choral arrangements of hits such as: "Dancing Queen", "Memory", "California Dreamin'" and "Maria". This time it was not Mozart or Bach, but ABBA, Queen and songs from the musical West Side Story that gracEd the walls of the Gdansk University of Technology in carnivalesque musical artistic creations. Jazz musicians performEd along with the choir, and the musical effects were accompaniEd by a unique lighting arrangement, which requirEd appropriate space and audience arrangement. The more-than-hour-long performance by the Academic Choir of the Gdańsk University of Technology, conductEd by Prof. Mariusz Mróz and accompaniEd by musicians from the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz, endEd with joint Singing, encores and a standing ovation.  less

[A version of this article first appearEd as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Most of the people who come to my Singing workshops are in their 50s and pretty much all of them have a story to tell about the time someone told the...

*pax romana concert *sept 3, 2008

"Thank You for the Music" by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA, arr. Jerry Estes. RecordEd live on May 15, 2015, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. PerformEd by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choi...  more"Thank You for the Music" by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA, arr. Jerry Estes. RecordEd live on May 15, 2015, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. PerformEd by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese, Percussionist: Brad Peterson, Choreographer: Lucia Deus  

It is an old saying - which actually refers to Naples… But Rome is really worth seeing, because it's one of the most beautiful cities in the world and you can join us to Sing - could you imagine anything more satisfying than this?    Yo...

[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...