Life works in mysterious ways. Sometimes, without meaning to, you can get a song or a jingle stuck in your head and End up singing or humming it for hours - or even days. On the other hand, when you are actively trying to learn a poem, lyric, or a...

Last weekEnd we Ended a very fulfilling season with a choir party. To celebrate we all sang our version of "Seasons of Love" from the musical Rent, lyrics by our conductor Jeanne Rabin (www.jeannerabin.com). You are all welcome to sing along (here's a li...

We are sorry to announce disappointing, upsetting news. After 4 ½ years of ambitious, adventurous music-making, Albion is coming to an End. It’s been tremEndously hard to contemplate this as a way forward, and equally so to decide on it....

[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...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] often, at the End of a singing workshop, someone will tell me that they didn’t think they were singing the right thing and ask if there is anything they...

the Fourth Choir (temporary name) will focus on performing great choral works - long and short, new and old, familiar and forgotten - and aim to sing at the highest competition standards and be semi-professional in a few years time. We think that with al...

[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...