[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   In open-access Choirs (which don’t audition), you often find one or two singers who struggle to pitch notes accurately.   photo by Jes...

Registrations Now Open for … Melbourne International Singers Festival 2020 – Guest Conductors & Registrations Open Now 3 – 8 June 2020 Deakin Edge, Federation Square Founding Artistic Director Dr Jonathon Welch AM invites you to joi...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Last week I wrote about getting feedback from singers and Choir leaders. But not all feedback is equal.   Feedback can come in many forms: speech, wr...

Bell'Arte Singers, Brenda Uchimaru, Artistic Director, performs Frank Ticheli's "Earth Song" at St. Simon-the-Apostle Church in Toronto, on November 17, 2012.

Bell'Arte Singers, Brenda Uchimaru, Artistic Director, perform Ben Bolden's "Captain of My Soul" at St. Simon-the-Apostle Church in Toronto, on March 2, 2013.

If you want to be part of the premiere of a work with singers from all over the world, I want to tell you that you are in the right place! We will make an incredible virtual Choir together. This experience will bring the work «The Last March of Des...

ECU Singers Performing "My Souls Been Anchored in the Lord" by Moses Hogan Directed by Dr. Steven Walker

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]I’ve been praised many times by the singers I work with for being so patient. Which makes me wonder: what’s the alternative?I must admit that I ...

George John Malcolm (1917-1997) Ingrediente Domino [Introit of Palm Sunday] Ingrediente Domino in Sanctam civitatem, Hebraeorum pueri resurrectionem vitam pronunciantes, Cum palmis palmarum. Osanna clamabunt in excelsis. Cumque audisset populus q...  moreGeorge John Malcolm (1917-1997) Ingrediente Domino [Introit of Palm Sunday] Ingrediente Domino in Sanctam civitatem, Hebraeorum pueri resurrectionem vitam pronunciantes, Cum palmis palmarum. Osanna clamabunt in excelsis. Cumque audisset populus quod Jesus venient Hierusalem, exierunt obviam ei. Cum palmis palmarum. Osanna clamabunt in excelsis. Harpsichordist, organist and visionary Choirmaster George Malcolm was one of the leading figures in British music after the Second World War. In his early life he had been Organ Scholar of Balliol College and Choirmaster of St Mary’s, Clapham. His work at Westminster Cathedral as Master of Music for twelve years from 1947 was the stuff of legend. He carried on the great traditions he had learnt in his youth from the Jesuit Father Driscoll and Fernand Laloux, Choirmaster of Farm Street Jesuit Church in Mayfair and developed a wholly different approach to the singing of children that proved vastly influential both in his own lifetime and in the twenty years sin...    less