[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Choir leaders often ask me where I source my songs. I’ve written about this in previous posts: Finding songs for your choir and Easy songs for ...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   As many regular readers will know, I hate a choir in uniform.     However, it is a good idea to have some kind of unifying dress code ...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Many people won’t consider joining a choir or going to a singing workshop because they believe they can’t ‘sing’. Yet ask them to s...

Do You love to Sing?  The Peace Choir Project – Hampton Park is an exciting and unique Play It Forward program celebrating cultural diversity and inclusion presented in collaboration with CASEY SINGS! & Hampton Park Uniting Church. This project...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I wrote a post a a few years back called Do you need singing lessons in order to sing?   Photo by Anna Strumillo   My main point was ...

A unique chance for participants to enjoy 7 days of intense work in a hidden paradise of nature, located at Central Greece. Participants will be able to rehearse and perform a piano-duo version of Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms. The performan...

An excerpt from movement IV of my Requiem (2007) as performed by the Orlando Chamber Singers under the direction of Gregory Ruffer. text: Keats (from Ode to a Nightingale) Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with e...  moreAn excerpt from movement IV of my Requiem (2007) as performed by the Orlando Chamber Singers under the direction of Gregory Ruffer. text: Keats (from Ode to a Nightingale) Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain  

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   There is a lack of men in many community choirs (Why men won’t sing).     The Tenor by Paul Helm   One of the results of th...

[this is an updated version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   A while back I attended a singing workshop and hated the way it was run. Was it just me, or was the workshop leader no good?    ...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   “Why can’t I sing?” The short answer is: “You can. Everybody can.”   Choir of the Munich University of Applied Scien...