Dear Singers/Conductors, We invite you in the beautiful village Paralia, Greece, situated on the west coast of the Thermaic gulf and in the shadow of Olympus, on the 9th edition of International Choir Festival "Music and sea" , September 1...  moreDear Singers/Conductors, We invite you in the beautiful village Paralia, Greece, situated on the west coast of the Thermaic gulf and in the shadow of Olympus, on the 9th edition of International Choir Festival "Music and sea" , September 10-15,2021. It's festival for competitive and non-competitive parts. Please see the rules and application form on our web page: www.magculture.mk If you had any questions or you need official invitation please contact us. Deadline for applications is July 30,2021.  less

Tesoro High School Madrigals Keith Hancock, conductor Western ACDA Conference (west coast premiere - February 25, 2016) - - score, practice Tracks, pronunciation guide: http://sydneyguillaumemusic.com/portfolio-items/tchaka - - - (TRADUCCIÓN AL E...  moreTesoro High School Madrigals Keith Hancock, conductor Western ACDA Conference (west coast premiere - February 25, 2016) - - score, practice Tracks, pronunciation guide: http://sydneyguillaumemusic.com/portfolio-items/tchaka - - - (TRADUCCIÓN AL ESPAÑOL ABAJO) - - - English Translation: Turn up the fire! We are going to eat tchaka! Turn up the fire, stir up the corn, don’t forget the salt pork, We are going to eat a delicious tchaka. We are going to cook up a mind-blowing stew. At the sound of the three drums, everyone yells out hurray. If we join together we can all move forward. Let us enmesh in lovely harmony A delicious homemade stew, a musical tchaka. It’s a delicious homemade stew, a national tchaka, A delicious homemade stew… Turn up the fire! Turn up the fire! *Yanvalou, Kontredans, Rabòday are amazing. Roots music, oh yes, that’s good stuff. Let’s stick together; side by side we can move forward. Turn up the fire! Turn up the fire! The tchaka is cooking! *Ibo, B...    less

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   The OK Chorale have just started back after a long Christmas break. This term we’re working towards our annual spring concert. I need to plan a...

When most people think of choir warmups, they picture scales, tongue twisters, or breathing exercises - all designed to help singers find their pitch, focus their sound, and prepare for Rehearsal. And of course, that’s exactly what warmups do, and w...

This post originally appeared on Helping You Harmonise in August 2009   I’ve been threatening since last winter to write about how the Inner Game ideas can inform Rehearsal techniques, and the time has at last arrived. This pos...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] How long’s a piece of string? There are so many options that I’m not going to specify any particular type or model.   photo by svennev...

Crescendo is the evolution of the choir, our growth as individuals and as a group ‎from the very first Rehearsal to finally singing for our audience at L’Auditori.‎ It’s an empowering life experience resulting from the intense months of work and rehear...  moreCrescendo is the evolution of the choir, our growth as individuals and as a group ‎from the very first Rehearsal to finally singing for our audience at L’Auditori.‎ It’s an empowering life experience resulting from the intense months of work and Rehearsals, ‎a learning process and a fantastic opportunity to share, to be supportive and to persevere in ‎our personal and collective dreams.‎ In this concert we present the Symphony for Strings No. 8 by William Herschel, ‎musician and astronomer who went down in history as the discoverer of the planet Uranus in ‎‎1781. This work will be followed by the dance of planets and stars of La Lluna by ‎Ian Shaw, a work based on the poem by Jacint Verdaguer and winner of the second edition ‎of the El Cor Canta International Composition Competition for Choir and Orchestra. The ‎concert will be rounded off with a call for peace with Missa per la Pau (Mass for ‎Peace), by Salvador Brotons.‎  less

North Sky Chorale performance in Saskatoon, SK in May 2023. Sheet music is a Free download made available by the composer in the link provided.

"The Prayer of St Francis of Assisi" for SATB Chorus A Cappella by Bernard Heyes. For scores email bernardjdheyes@talktalk.net. For more information and Free downdoads visit www.bernardheyes.org.uk

A TTBB setting of the poem by Sarah Orne Jewett. "A Country Boy in Winter" by American poet Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) appeared in Harper's Young People for January 24, 1882. The setting for men's chorus was completed in August 2001 and is dedicat...  moreA TTBB setting of the poem by Sarah Orne Jewett. "A Country Boy in Winter" by American poet Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) appeared in Harper's Young People for January 24, 1882. The setting for men's chorus was completed in August 2001 and is dedicated to William Rust Bartholomew. The premiere performance took place at the 2004 Society of Composers National Conference.