[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...

[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...

[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...

Thomas Rossin conducts Rutter's Christmas Carol, What Sweeter Music. Recorded at St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel, University of St. Thomas

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   There are quite a few choirs out there made up entirely of blind singers. There are also many famous individual blind singers (Stevie Wonder, Andrea Bocell...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   This post is one of a series of occasional Questions and Answers that I do on my own blog. Just use the contact form if you want to submit a question. &...

I have been running community choirs for years and years. I have always wanted to make choral singing, whatever the genre, available to everyone - even those who don't read music. I would like to introduce my new app created in association with 3fire ...  moreI have been running community choirs for years and years. I have always wanted to make choral singing, whatever the genre, available to everyone - even those who don't read music. I would like to introduce my new app created in association with 3fire music. It would be great to know what y'all think of my baby! Many thanks and wishes Jane  

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] choirs are not meeting at the moment so lots of you have gone online to sing. Given that it will be just you singing at a screen, what can you do to get the ...

Smoke gets in your eyes - Kern From the Les Sirènes Summer Concert - 26/06/11.

An excerpt from movement III of my Requiem performed by the Orlando chamber Singers under the direction of Gregory Ruffer. In Flanders Fields by John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our p...  moreAn excerpt from movement III of my Requiem performed by the Orlando chamber Singers under the direction of Gregory Ruffer. In Flanders Fields by John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. photos courtesy of FreeFoto http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp  less