[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...

[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from almost 30 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 ac...

The choir is formed on 11. 04. 2007. The members of the choir are professional musicians. Until now, the choir took part in the projects of the National Theater and The Opera House of Bitola (Heraclea and Likini and Fiddler on the roof); choir seminar in ...  moreThe choir is formed on 11. 04. 2007. The members of the choir are professional musicians. Until now, the choir took part in the projects of the National Theater and The Opera House of Bitola (Heraclea and Likini and Fiddler on the roof); choir seminar in Solun (Greece);many whole concerts and participation in humanitarian conserts. On our programme are represented all type of choir music, accapela and music with instruments.  

Under the collaborative leadership of top producer and director Adrian Peacock, the internationally renowned expert in Spanish early music Bruno Turner and bass-baritone Jamie W. Hall, CONTINUUM brings together twelve of the finest professional consort si...  moreUnder the collaborative leadership of top producer and director Adrian Peacock, the internationally renowned expert in Spanish early music Bruno Turner and bass-baritone Jamie W. Hall, CONTINUUM brings together twelve of the finest professional consort Singers in London, carefully chosen to produce a unique and vibrant sound that celebrates the very best qualities of the English choral tradition and the powerful beauty of the uninhibited human voice. This all-male ensemble has made 16th century Spanish sacred polyphony and chant the core of its repertoire, and seeks to perform this wonderful music at the original, sonorous low pitch as it would have been heard in Spanish cathedrals and religious institutions during Spain’s “Golden Age”.  less

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...

Many directors, even though they deeply care and want to give their Singers the best, simply can’t afford to commission new works or secure premieres. Odes of Love is an honest work—an ode to what we love most: life itself...

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 sta...

The University Chorale performs the "Song of Ruth" by Rudy Lupinski and Victoria Davison. The East Central University Department of Music as part of the School of Fine Arts is housed in the beautiful Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center. The Department has...  moreThe University Chorale performs the "Song of Ruth" by Rudy Lupinski and Victoria Davison. The East Central University Department of Music as part of the School of Fine Arts is housed in the beautiful Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center. The Department has over two hundred participating students of which approximately half are music majors. We have eighteen faculty members and are fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.  

此曲原由阿根廷的流行音樂作曲家法飛洛（A. Favero），根據烏拉圭著名詩人班奈戴提（M. Benedetti）所寫的情詩而作，由康吉安諾（L. Cangiano）改編寫成無伴奏混聲合唱曲，以厚實多變的和聲表現歌詞中深情呼喚至愛的誠摯情感。 我愛你，你是我的至愛，我的密友，我的一切。 當我們手挽著手走過每一條路， 我們就像同一個人一樣的心靈契合； 當你的眼睛凝望著我，整天的鬱悶都將一掃而空。 我愛你，你的身影是我向未來前進的力量。 你的手撫慰了我的心，我每天的思緒， 讓世界上的一切都能...  more此曲原由阿根廷的流行音樂作曲家法飛洛（A. Favero），根據烏拉圭著名詩人班奈戴提（M. Benedetti）所寫的情詩而作，由康吉安諾（L. Cangiano）改編寫成無伴奏混聲合唱曲，以厚實多變的和聲表現歌詞中深情呼喚至愛的誠摯情感。 我愛你，你是我的至愛，我的密友，我的一切。 當我們手挽著手走過每一條路， 我們就像同一個人一樣的心靈契合； 當你的眼睛凝望著我，整天的鬱悶都將一掃而空。 我愛你，你的身影是我向未來前進的力量。 你的手撫慰了我的心，我每天的思緒， 讓世界上的一切都能正常的轉動。 你說的一切都和我想的一樣，絕對不會有錯。 我愛你，你的口知道如何為了背離而哭泣； 我愛你，因為你誠摯的面容和迷失的腳步。 因為你為了世界而哭泣，你就是人們，我永遠愛你。 我愛你，愛不只是一齣天真無邪的故事。 愛是分享生命的全部，因為我們是一體，永遠不會孤獨。 我要在天堂和你在一起，我的家園。 我希望人們能夠自由，即使現在他們仍然困在苦難之中。  

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I don’t like rehearsing. I’d much rather turn up on the day, trust the Singers I’m working with and just busk it.      ...