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blog: 7 ways to hold onto your choir members: why retention is more important than recruitment

[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: Beyond the usual suspects – how to get choir members to volunteer for supporting roles

[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: How to give and receive starting notes 2: receiving your note accurately

[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: Singing is about listening, not looking

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   There are quite a few choirs out there made up entirely of blind singers. There are also many famous individual blind singers (Stevie Wonder, Andrea Bocell...

blog: choirs: is old age an issue?

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   This post is one of a series of occasional Questions and Answers that I do on my own blog. Just use the contact form if you want to submit a question. &...

ChoirPlayer App
video: ChoirPlayer App

I have been running community choirs for years and years. I have always wanted to make choral singing, whatever the genre, available to everyone - even those who don't read music. I would like to introduce my new app created in association with 3fire ...  more

blog: How to get the most out of singing online – a guide for singers

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] choirs are not meeting at the moment so lots of you have gone online to sing. Given that it will be just you singing at a screen, what can you do to get the ...

blog: Looking for something new?

You like Italian composers and have already met the composer in person at an international choir competition? Find out at  PH Publisher about the published piece "Saluto alla Beata Vergine Maria" for mixed choirs by Battista Pradal.   Battis...

blog: How to decide whether to cancel a concert or singing workshop

[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: How to bring harmonies to life when teaching a song

[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...