[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...

[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 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...

Live performance recording of the beautiful Christmas song "Star of Wonder" by Gordon Thornett. Performed by the Nidaros Cathedral Boys' Choir (Nidarosdomens Guttekor) on November, 26th 2017, in Ørland Church, Norway during a live performance of the ch...  moreLive performance recording of the beautiful Christmas song "Star of Wonder" by Gordon Thornett. Performed by the Nidaros Cathedral Boys' Choir (Nidarosdomens Guttekor) on November, 26th 2017, in Ørland Church, Norway during a live performance of the choir. Nidarosdomens Guttekor, conductor: Bjørn Moe Organ: Erling With Aasgård  

Vocal Ensemble "Quadrivia" Members: Alto: Tamara Ivanić Tenor: Jovo Ivanić Baritone: Karlo Hameder Bass: Aleksandar Mijailović Magnum nomen Domini is a Christmas Motet composed by Bartłomiej Pękiel (1633-1670). Pękiel served the court in Warsaw f...  moreVocal Ensemble "Quadrivia" Members: Alto: Tamara Ivanić Tenor: Jovo Ivanić Baritone: Karlo Hameder Bass: Aleksandar Mijailović Magnum nomen Domini is a Christmas Motet composed by Bartłomiej Pękiel (1633-1670). Pękiel served the court in Warsaw from about 1633. After the Swedish invasion of Poland in 1655 he then moved to Wawel Cathedral Chapel in Kraków, where he was Kapellmeister. 29 of Pękiel's works survive, mostly in manuscript. The musicologist Bartłomiej Gembicki divides these into two stages; early baroque (Warsaw) and church music in the style of prima pratica (Kraków). He wrote the only Polish church oratorio Audite mortales, on the topic of The Last Judgement. Magnum nomen Domini Magnum nomen domini Emanuel, quod annuntiatum est per Gabriel, hodie apparuit, apparuit in Israel per Mariam virginem in Bethlehem. Eia, eia. Virgo Deum genuit, quod divina voluit clementia. Gaudete, gaudete, Christus natus hodie, gaudete, gaudete, Christus natus hodie. Alleluia.  less

[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...

The choral group Albion gives concerts like no others! Its unique repertoire is made up of beautiful all-new versions of the music of Britain and Ireland. Much-loved songs like Danny Boy, Scarborough Fair, and Jerusalem – a staple of the Last ...

[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...