[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From THE Front of THE CHOIR]   When I was much younger I used to think that once you knew everything and were vastly experienced, only THEn would you become confident.   photo ...

Balchik, Bulgaria 2011

This post was originally written for www.onlinerehearsals.blogspot.com - I thought it might be of wider interest THE time has come; some might say THE time is long past, for us to decide what we are as a CHOIR and how we move forward. In many ways...

65 or more member CHOIR which gives two main programmes a season. Usually from THE standard choral repertoire.

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From THE Front of THE CHOIR]   To make singing as accessible as possible, I don’t use sheet music when I teach. This often freaks out people who are used to having a score in THEir...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From THE Front of THE CHOIR]   I teach songs without using any kind of musical notation. Like oTHEr members of THE Natural Voice Practitioners’ Network I believe that singing should...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From THE Front of THE CHOIR]   Last time I wrote about wheTHEr it’s better to be over-rehearsed or under-prepared. I talked about people who like to spend a long time working on on...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From THE Front of THE CHOIR]   Over THE years I have run CHOIRs and singing groups all based on THE same principles, but in different locations. THE general mix of genders, ages, backgro...