VIVA!’s six Choirs, for ages four through adult, offer members the opportunity to achieve artistic excellence in a singer-centered, collaborative choral community, featuring youth mentoring programs and the TD Bank Group Inclusion Program. Founded in 2...  moreVIVA!’s six Choirs, for ages four through adult, offer members the opportunity to achieve artistic excellence in a singer-centered, collaborative choral community, featuring youth mentoring programs and the TD Bank Group Inclusion Program. Founded in 2000 by Carol Woodward Ratzlaff in response to widespread cuts to public school arts programs, 2018-19 marks VIVA!’s 19th season as a downtown family of choirs. VIVA!’s choirs include: the Preparatory Chorus (ages 4-6); the Junior Choir (ages 6-10); the Main Chorus (ages 9-16); the SATB Chamber Choir (senior high school, university students and adults); and the non-auditioned VIVA! Community Choir (SATB) which incorporates Everyone Can Sing (ECS), an auditioned group for those aged 13 and up with disabilities. VIVA’s unique TD Bank Group Inclusion Program provides support for all singers with disabilities. Also singular to VIVA! is the Choral Mentoring and Leadership Program, which forms an integral part of VIVA!’s structure. This Program provides young l...    less

Choirs R Us is a community choir in Barnet, North LonDon singing pop, soul, R&B and gospel songs in harmony. The choir is open to adults 18+ irrespective of age or ability. There’s no audition and no need to be able to read music. The choir is directe...  moreChoirs R Us is a community choir in Barnet, North LonDon singing pop, soul, R&B and gospel songs in harmony. The choir is open to adults 18+ irrespective of age or ability. There’s no audition and no need to be able to read music. The choir is directed by Jenny Bennett, an experienced and inspirational choir director.  

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   “You can’t run a singing workshop here, we Don’t have a piano.”   photo by Thomas Quine   It’s amazing ...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I Don’t go to concerts much, especially not choir concerts. I find them rather long and boring.     Photot by ToniVC   But a fe...

    Project for choirs from different countries willing to participate in a CD with Armenian national music We announce to all choirs a very exciting project named "Treasures of music: Armenia".With our partners:- Armenian Choral Conductors...

For those of you who missed the cahnce to hear Albion on Meet the Choir on Radio 3, Sunday afternoon Choir programme with Sara Mohr-Pietsch there is a second chance on Sunday 5th July. Don't say you have not been warned - chance to catch up with a litt...

I’ve just finished reading a remarkable book called The Art of Possibility. It’s jointly authored by Rosamund Stone Zander and her husband, Benjamin Zander, who is an orchestral conductor.   Ben Zander by p_c_w   In the book, B...