• Corporación Artística  Gustavo Gomez Ardila

    VI FESTIVAL CORAL INTERNACIONAL GUSTAVO GOMEZ ARDILA COLOMBIA

    Added April 30, 2012 by Corporación Artística Gustavo Gomez Ardila - 1117 views - 0 comments

    The International Gustavo Gomez Ardila Choir Festival  is a gathering of choirs of different formats from different countries that share experiences.  for its sixth edition, the festival incorporated the first Choir Comp... read more

  • Oscar Bautista

    VI FESTIVAL CORAL INTERNACIONAL GUSTAVO GOMEZ ARDILA COLOMBIA

    Added April 30, 2012 by Oscar Bautista - 1004 views - 0 comments

    The International Gustavo Gomez Ardila Choir Festival  is a gathering of choirs of different formats from different countries that share experiences.  for its sixth edition, the festival incorporated the first Choir Competiti... read more

  • Chris Rowbury

    How to teach (and learn) a song by ear 2

    Added April 26, 2012 by Chris Rowbury - 2255 views - 0 comments

    [this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Last week in How to teach (and learn) a song by ear 1  I wrote about the oral tradition, teaching by ear, starting notes and breaking a song down into manageable chunks.     Photo by niclindh   ... read more

  • vocaldente -  a cappella art

    vocaldentes road trip through Oregon, Idaho and Montana

    Added April 25, 2012 by vocaldente - a cappella art - 871 views - 0 comments

    22.04.2012 | By:San Francisco | 07:24 Germany is asleep – vocaldente is awake! Yesterday we participated in the terrific Pfäffikon a-capella festival in Switzerland: Despite political and financial discrepancies, it does exist: the friendship between Germany and Switzerland! Thank you ev... read more

  • Chris Rowbury

    How to teach (and learn) a song by ear 1

    Added April 19, 2012 by Chris Rowbury - 3942 views - 0 comments

    [this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   To make singing as accessible as possible, I don’t use sheet music when I teach. This often freaks out people who are used to having a score in their hands!     This post is about how to teach and ho... read more

  • vocaldente -  a cappella art

    vocaldente west coast tour

    Added April 19, 2012 by vocaldente - a cappella art - 876 views - 0 comments

    After a short trip to switzerlands A cappella festival in Pfäffikon, vocaldente - a cappella art is starting their spring Tour at the US west coast with concerts in Redmond, Rexburg, Corvallis, Portland and San Francisco! Check out the details on http://www.vocaldente.org/en/live/2012.html

  • Chocs away for Handel's Messiah

    Added April 16, 2012 by Juliette Holtom - 1030 views - 0 comments

    WORCESTER singers are hitting the Hallelujah trail for a post-Easter performance of a work more traditionally associated with Christmas.    Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir will perform Handel's Messiah at a time when city folk are finishing the last of their chocolate eggs, instead of wrapping festive gif... read more

  • Chris Rowbury

    Looking after ourselves as choir leaders

    Added April 12, 2012 by Chris Rowbury - 1911 views - 2 comments

    [this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   It’s a dark January evening, cold and rainy, and we’re snuggled up in the warm eating our supper.     Choir starts in half an hour and we have to walk to a dark, draughty hall which always take... read more

  • Chris Rowbury

    What do we mean by 'community choir'?

    Added April 5, 2012 by Chris Rowbury - 7415 views - 0 comments

    [this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Apparently singing is the UK’s second most popular activity after sport.     Photo by Shaunette Babb   According to The Guardian from December 2006:   “there are more than 25,... read more

  • Jeff Stewart

    Choral Holidays 2012

    Added April 5, 2012 by Jeff Stewart - 1485 views - 0 comments

    Choral Holidays is a small company that specialises in taking groups of amateur singers to beautiful locations and forming them into choirs. Last year we took a group to the beautiful location of Milton Abbey in Dorset, and also to Florence, where we stayed in the gorgeous Castello doi Gabbiano and sang in the Batiste... read more