[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] If I get 30 singers on one of my weekend workshops someone will say “Gosh, what a large group!” whilst another says “Quite low numb...
Award-winning app that sight reads choral music straight from a photo! PlayScore 2 also plays back images and PDF scores. Amazing playback accuracy. Export to any score editor. Adjust volume, instrument and transposition for each staff. Change te...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Unlike many ‘traditional’ classical or church choirs, Natural Voice choirs seldom use written scores. We don‘t assume that singers who att...
SKOWRONKI Girls' Choir Maria Lewandowska - harp Alicja Szeluga conductor Gaudete! Live concert 21/12/2012 Poznań, Poland www.chor-skowronki.pl http://www.facebook.com/chorskowronki
I wrote an essay about group singing for Time, and I mentioned ChoirPlace as one of the places to find a choir. This is a picture of a summer sing I went to on Monday, hosted by the West Village Chorale.
Marsilio Ficino (1433-1498), Florentine philosopher wrote a wonderful sentence: “Music is nothing more than a Decoration of Silence”. What a wonderful statement. Shall we take it to the choir? Undoubtedly silence is in many way...
The Fourth Choir is announcing an interNational choral composition competition to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, which will fall on 23 April 2016. The winner of the competition will receive a prize of £1000 an...
[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Summer has finally arrived in the UK. We’ve been praying for sunshine for so long, but now it’s just a little TOO hot! Photo b...
Come and sing with us this summer at the Ingenium Academy! Would you like to spend your summer making great music, with new friends from all over the world? Want to sing and spend three weeks in a beautiful 14th-century school in historic Winches...