[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] Feel like you’re on a treadmill? Constantly learning and practising and planning but never arriving? Not enough time to catch your breath between concer...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   It’s a dark January evening, cold and rainy, and we’re snuggled up in the warm eating our supper.     choir starts in half an ho...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   A few years ago I was asked by BBC Radio Suffolk to create a choir from scratch to perform in a concert in aid of Children in Need: The Big Night Out...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   choir leaders don’t last forever so there will come a time when a choir needs to find a new one.     If you’re the person ...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I watched a TV documentary the other day called How a choir works with Gareth Malone.   Photo by TheCamerons   At one point he talked about...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] I’ve written before about how you can use the long choir break to get better at what you do.   photo by troy   One way is to attend sin...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   A few years ago conductor Kenneth Woods posted an item on his blog, A View from the Podium, about the problems of having to repeat oneself constantly in re...

Petit extrait de "Swing! Swing! Swing!", dirigé par Scott Alan Prouty, le dernier spectacle du Choeur d'enfants Sotto Voce, enregistré à la Salle Gaveau en mai 2009. La chanson "Cabaret Sotto Voce" est la deuxième chanson du spectacle, dirigé par Scott Al...  morePetit extrait de "Swing! Swing! Swing!", dirigé par Scott Alan Prouty, le dernier spectacle du Choeur d'enfants Sotto Voce, enregistré à la Salle Gaveau en mai 2009. La chanson "Cabaret Sotto Voce" est la deuxième chanson du spectacle, dirigé par Scott Alan Prouty, assité par Mathieu Septier et au piano, Richard Davis. Le spectacle est conçu par Emmanuel Touchard avec chorégraphie d'Evandra Martins. Pour plus d'infos sur le choeur: www.sottovoce.fr  

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   The average age of people who attend the choirs and workshops that I run must be around 50. I would say that about a third of any group is of retirement ag...

A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] Being in a choir is great (see The pleasures of being a choir member), but most mixed choirs never seem to have enough men.     photo by Robert...