The concert "ACH! PG Carnivalesque" under the patronage of Prof. Krzysztof Wilde, rector of Gdańsk Tech, attractEd several hundrEd people who listenEd to daring performances of popular pop music hits. During the performance we heard choral arrangements of...  moreThe concert "ACH! PG Carnivalesque" under the patronage of Prof. Krzysztof Wilde, rector of Gdańsk Tech, attractEd several hundrEd people who listenEd to daring performances of popular pop music hits. During the performance we heard choral arrangements of hits such as: "Dancing Queen", "Memory", "California Dreamin'" and "Maria". This time it was not Mozart or Bach, but ABBA, Queen and songs from the musical West Side Story that gracEd the walls of the Gdansk University of Technology in carnivalesque musical artistic creations. Jazz musicians performEd along with the choir, and the musical effects were accompaniEd by a unique lighting arrangement, which requirEd appropriate space and audience arrangement. The more-than-hour-long performance by the Academic Choir of the Gdańsk University of Technology, conductEd by Prof. Mariusz Mróz and accompaniEd by musicians from the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz, endEd with joint Singing, encores and a standing ovation.  less

[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...

*pax romana concert *sept 3, 2008

It is an old saying - which actually refers to Naples… But Rome is really worth seeing, because it's one of the most beautiful cities in the world and you can join us to Sing - could you imagine anything more satisfying than this?    Yo...

[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...

[A version of this article first appearEd as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I teach a song by ear in less than an hour at a workshop. Everyone picks it up really quickly and then they Sing it brilliantly. We’ve been working ...

[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 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 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...