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blog: Leading your first ever singing group – a complete beginner’s guide

[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...

blog: How to put on a successful concert 2: songs and concert structure

[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...

blog: Why I record the songs at the end of every singing workshop I lead

[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...

blog: WHY IS CHORAL CLASSICAL IMPORTANT FOR KENYAN YouthS

Kenyan Youths are among the most vibrant Youths not only on the African continent but inaguably the whole world. Kenya is a country of the Youth according to the 2019 Population and Census results which shows that 75% of the  47.6 million population...

blog: World Choirs

Greetings to all Choir Lovers! I am so excited to be a part of the growing world choir phenomenon. So many possibilities exist for singers, composers, and lovers of vocal music to connect and collaborate not only musically, but socially as well. Having be...

INTRO
video: INTRO

Youth choir "Mūza", Sniedze Praulina at Riga St.Peter's Church 22.05.2013

blog: Is one of your choir sections thin on the ground? 10 ways to find more singers to fill the gaps

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Many of us are in Choirs where a particular section needs bolstering. In my case it’s a lack of altos, for others it might be too few tenors.  ...

blog: Fit the song arrangement to your singers and not the other way round

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Most singers in Choirs don’t fit neatly into choral vocal ranges. Yet we try to squeeze them in to our off-the-shelf arrangements, chastising them when ...

blog: What you can learn from running singing workshops to become a better singer or workshop leader

[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...