[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 basis for the Utrecht Byzantine Choir lies in a group of Ukrainian seminarians with its professors who came to the Netherlands shortly after the Second World War. Born and raised in Ukrainia dr. Myroslaw Antonowycz conducted the worship services in C...  moreThe basis for the Utrecht Byzantine Choir lies in a group of Ukrainian seminarians with its professors who came to the Netherlands shortly after the Second World War. Born and raised in Ukrainia dr. Myroslaw Antonowycz conducted the worship services in Culemborg for the reestablished Ukrainian seminar. After the seminarians were graduated, they swarmed out to fulfill their priestly vocation for the Ukrainians all over the world. The now outside the monastery walls well-known seminarian choir fell apart while applications for the singing of liturgies and concerts throughout the Netherlands, kept coming. On the initiative of Msgr. AG Smith, dr. Antonowycz founded the Utrecht Byzantine Choir on February 9, 1951, consisting of only Dutch men, who specialized in singing the liturgy according to the Slavic-Byzantine rite. In cooperation with the Apostolate of the Eastern Churches, the UBK initially only sang liturgies according to the Byzantine Rite. Hundreds of parishes in the Netherlands became familiar with ...    less

The East Central University Chorale performing the last three of Morten Lauridsens "Midwinter Songs" cycle. (Numbers 3 through 5) Including III. "She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep" IV. "Mid Winter Waking" and V. "Intercession In Late Octo...  moreThe East Central University Chorale performing the last three of Morten Lauridsens "Midwinter Songs" cycle. (Numbers 3 through 5) Including III. "She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep" IV. "Mid Winter Waking" and V. "Intercession In Late October" This performance was recorded at the Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa, Oklahoma. January 26, 2001. Dr. J. Steven Walker, Conducting Dr. Dennis Boe, accompanist.  

[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...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I often get asked this at workshops after people have struggled to get their tongues around a few foreign Songs.     I point out that ...

PEKTORAL Chamber Choir - is famous in Ukraine and abroad amateur choir, started its history since 1998. The Collective had united singers for whom music is favorite hobby. The repertoire of the Choir consist of real pearls of Ukrainian and foreign sacred,...  morePEKTORAL Chamber Choir - is famous in Ukraine and abroad amateur choir, started its history since 1998. The Collective had united singers for whom music is favorite hobby. The repertoire of the Choir consist of real pearls of Ukrainian and foreign sacred, folk and modern music. Geography of concert trips of the Choir includes сities of Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania, Norway, Italy. The Choir has frequently been the diplomant and prizewinner of the international choral competitions and festivals. Discography of our Choir consist of 2 CD (2000, 2004). Art director of Pektoral Chamber Choir - Andriy Karpinets. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Andriy Karpinets (born in 1975). Andrew began to take his musical education in Dresden (Germany), by piano class. In 1994 he became a graduate of the theoretical and choral conducting branch of college of music in Drohobych (Lviv region)., and in 2001 he was graduated with honors f...    less