Khreschatyk Academic Chamber Choir/Khreschatyk Сhoir, Conductor Pavlo Struts, staged by Natalia Begma, video Viktor Bondarenko, March 18, 2019.

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   A few years ago Conductor Kenneth Woods posted an item on his blog, A View from the Podium, about the problems of having to repeat oneself constantly in re...

Cantoria Sine Nomine (Italy) Conductor Carlo Andriollo Live Concorso Corale di Fermo 2018

Kvennakor Kopavogs in concert at Harpa Musichall, spring 2014. Conductor Groa Hreinsdottir

composer: Zachary J. Moore ensemble: Oshkosh West High School Chorale Conductor: Herb Berendsen

"TIMELES" Concert Philamlife Auditorium, Manila October 2007 Prof. Fidel Calalang, Jr., Conductor

This week the first adjudicators for the 2012 World Choir Games have been announced (see here). Christopher Eanes, Conductor of Cincinnati Boychoir, served as a judge for this year’s World Choir Championships for Youth and Young Adults in Graz, Au...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I used to run a small women’s choir of 12 singers. One day it dawned on me that my job was to make myself redundant.     I researched,...

Magnificat was formed in 1991 by its Conductor, Philip Cave, to explore the rich diversity of choral music from the last five centuries. The ensemble specialises in the restoration and performance of neglected choral masterpieces of the 16th and 17th cent...  moreMagnificat was formed in 1991 by its Conductor, Philip Cave, to explore the rich diversity of choral music from the last five centuries. The ensemble specialises in the restoration and performance of neglected choral masterpieces of the 16th and 17th centuries. Magnificat ranges in size from four to forty voices and performs a wide range of music, both a capella and with ensembles of period instruments. In association with Linn Records, http://www.linnrecords.com/artist-magnificat.aspx Magnificat has undertaken many recording projects of music from ‘The Golden Age'. The first of these comprises motets by Gesualdo, Guerrero, Josquin, Rebelo and Victoria together with Allegri's Miserere and Palestrina's Stabat mater. A highly acclaimed recording of Victoria's Officium Defunctorum of 1605, named a 1997 Critics' Choice by Gramophone Magazine and chosen by The Rough Guide as one of its ‘100 Essential Classical CDs', was...    less

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I’ve suddenly realised I don’t know what to call myself any more. I used to be a ‘choirmaster’ (a term I got from Gareth Malone and...