V Festival Coral Internacional Gustavo Gómez Ardila Zapatoca, Santander Octubre de 2011

In this electro-acoustic piece, Davidson applies a microscope to sound. Using the words "we apologise" from then-Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's historic 2008 apology to aboriginal Australians for past mistreatment, Davidson creates a beautiful sou...  moreIn this electro-acoustic piece, Davidson applies a microscope to sound. Using the words "we apologise" from then-Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's historic 2008 apology to aboriginal Australians for past mistreatment, Davidson creates a beautiful soundscape by slowing the audio down by 250 times, the approximate ratio of aboriginal to modern presence in Australia. We use our voices to imitate this slow version. We then speed up the recording 250 times to see if we can hear Kevin Rudd's voice re-emerge. The result surprised us all!  less

Christmas in Cologne, Germany Thank you to my friend, Joachim Diessner, for providing this video. Words by Joseph Mohr Benita Borbonus, Sopran Simon Bales, Trompete Ehrenfelder Kantorei Vera Bongert, Ursel Cremer, Ute Eisenhut (a.G.), C...  moreChristmas in Cologne, Germany Thank you to my friend, Joachim Diessner, for providing this video. Words by Joseph Mohr Benita Borbonus, Sopran Simon Bales, Trompete Ehrenfelder Kantorei Vera Bongert, Ursel Cremer, Ute Eisenhut (a.G.), Christine von Förster, Roswitha Frost, Claudia Hennen, Corry Kok, Anja Meksem, Barbara Meyer zum Wischen, Priska Mielke, Ingrid Müller, Sarah Neusel, Maxime Oeburg, Sigrid Roggatz, Stefanie Schlösser, Katrin Witzel, Sopran Yasemin Becker, Maria Biehl, Renate von Bonin, Leonie Drews, Ursula Gurski, Eva Marleen Hecker, Sonja Helms, Anke Hoffmann, Alice Keuken (a.G.), Sibylle Kiock, Barbara Kuster, Anne Pfeiffer, Inge Ramm, Eva Schlu-Kröpelin, Dorle Schubert, Barbara Siefker (a.G.), Dagmar Smernic, Heike Sprunk, Linda Stenzel, Yvonne Welling (a.G.), Magdalena Wochnik (a.G.) Alt Joachim Bertsch (a.G.), Jörg Biegus, Christoph Hamborg, Michael Mayer, Matthias Velten (a.G.), Gertrud Wilhelm, Tenor Alexander Blicker-Dielmann, Bernd Hellmich, Michael Kolvenbach (a.G.),...    less

CHIJ Katong Convent choir, Est. 2000. Under the direction of Mr. Terrence Toh. We live life to the fullest, and sing like there's no tomorrow

The Major Minors Children's choir (aged 5-12) are really looking forward to their concert  "One Small Voice" on Sunday June 8th.   The New Zealand based choir have been working on a variety of songs and this fun concert has something for every...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Apparently it’s the summer break here in the UK. The weather is sunny, choir doesn’t start back until September, kids are off school and ice c...

The choir at St Mary’s Cathedral is one of Scotland’s finest. It is made up of boys, girls, women and men from all walks of life and with many levels of musical expertise and experience, who give of their time and talent on an entirely voluntary basis to ...  moreThe choir at St Mary’s Cathedral is one of Scotland’s finest. It is made up of boys, girls, women and men from all walks of life and with many levels of musical expertise and experience, who give of their time and talent on an entirely voluntary basis to sing to a professional standard. Membership of the choir currently stands at around thirty-five adults and sixteen to twenty children. The choir’s principal function is to provide the music and help lead the worship at the Cathedral’s two main services every Sunday: Sung Eucharist at 10.30 am and Choral Evensong at 6.30 pm. Services are preceded by a rehearsal, and there is a rehearsal once a week, currently on Thursday evenings. In addition to these important duties, the choir also sings for regular special services, occasional concerts, broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio, has appeared on TV, and every year they sing in one of the great British Cathedrals for a weekend, or sometimes a week. St Mary’s Cathedral choir performs a very wide range of music, ...    less

 five-star review in the Telegraph for the Howells Requiem from Trinity College choir and Stephen Layton. “A fluid lyrical gift, an imaginative harmonic spectrum and a sense of occasion … the Trinity College choir brings clarity of words...

The roots of Cantilena lie within the children’s choir “Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen”. The memories of the wonderful and exciting years, the great musical and personal experiences gained while singing in the children’s choir motivated a group of former membe...  moreThe roots of Cantilena lie within the children’s choir “Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen”. The memories of the wonderful and exciting years, the great musical and personal experiences gained while singing in the children’s choir motivated a group of former members to reunite and to found a female vocal ensemble – in January 2004, students, mothers and young professionals come together to sing for the first time as “Cantilena”. Prof. Elisabeth Ziegler, conductor of the “Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen”, was entrusted to be the artistic director of the new women’s choir. She was tempted by the possibility to go beyond the limits given by the repertoire of a children’s choir and to discover new choral literature with the now adult singers. From the very first moment of the foundation of “Cantilena” until today, Elisabeth Ziegler guides and supports the plans of the enthusiastic young women by sharing her extensive musical expertise. It was her lifelong passion for choral music that was planted into the singers’ hearts back in ...    less

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] Lots of mixed choirs don’t have enough male singers, and many established male voice choirs are not managing to find younger recruits (see my series of ...