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blog: Choir concert 2.0 - the virtual concert

How can we get our music out there and share it with the world? How can reach even more people and stay in contact with the fans we already have? I found the answer to this when I stumbled upon an internet platform which lets artists broadcast their conce...

blog: Have voice, will travel

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I love my job, I really do. I just need some space and a bunch of people and we will make beautiful music together.   Photo by Heather Jennings &...

blog: Never tell someone they can’t sing – it is brutal, damaging and untrue

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Most of the people who come to my singing workshops are in their 50s and pretty much all of them have a story to tell about the time someone told the...

blog: Why feedback is important when teaching and learning songs

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I was running a one-day workshop a while back and it seemed to me that the whole thing wasn’t gelling. People seemed uninspired, energy was low, and i...

blog: Copying music – how to stay on the right side of the law

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I get regular emails from people asking questions about songs and copyright. I’m certainly no expert, but I have written a few articles that you migh...

blog: Why are so many people afraid to open their mouths and sing?

[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...

blog: “This is the right space, and these are the right people” – working with the singers you’ve got, not those you hoped for

[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...

blog: AFFINITY YOUTH WORKSHOP

Hi fellow singers,   Stockport based Affinity Show Choir are putting on an exciting workshop aimed at "Young DIVAS" aged 16 to 25 at the Stockport College, Stockport, Cheshire, England, from begining of November on Wednesday evenings culminating in...

group: Via Vitae

Via Vitae is an a-cappella choir from all over Norway, with Young singers between the ages of 18 and 30. the members live at different places throughout the country. Five times a year they gather in different places in Norway to share music with each othe...  more

blog: the Twelve Days of Christmas arr. Biegel

As a Young chorister, I was entranced by Robert Shaw's arrangement of "the Twelve Days of Christmas". Twenty years later, I decided to take the plunge and compose my own arrangement for SATB divisi a cappella choir. I hope you enjoy this, and may consider...