[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] Feel like you’re on a treadmill? Constantly learning and practising and planning but never arriving? Not enough time to catch your breath between concer...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I started my first community choir over 20 years ago. I used to worry that, after the long summer break, the Singers would have forgotten me and wouldn’...

Video by Benjamin Aellen; Artless Films (artlessfilms.ch) Executive Producer: Philipp Schmidlin Original Song: "Butterfly" by Rajaton Choir: Cantalon Basel Assistent Camera: Pablo Grendelmeier Staring: Sara Eberhardt Lucien Haug, Marco Jenni, J...  moreVideo by Benjamin Aellen; Artless Films (artlessfilms.ch) Executive Producer: Philipp Schmidlin Original Song: "Butterfly" by Rajaton Choir: Cantalon Basel Assistent Camera: Pablo Grendelmeier Staring: Sara Eberhardt Lucien Haug, Marco Jenni, Julian Schneider, Lena Frei, Julie Burkhardt  

Performance of Imant Raminsh's In The Night We Shall Go In at the 2013 Tennessee ACDA conference, First Baptist Church, Chattanooga, TN (Live)

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I had a girlfriend who believed that we are all capable of anything if we just put enough effort in.   Photo by _foam   She believed that ...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] When a nervous singer turns up to your choir or someone comes to your singing workshop who’s never sung in public before, it’s all too easy for th...

Our singing christmas card with seasons greetings and wishing everybody a wonderfull 2015!

Innismara, meaning “island in the sea” in Irish Gaelic, is an autonomous vocal chamber Ensemble that fills a gap in the rich tapestry of choral music in Newfoundland and Labrador. Comprised of professionally trained musicians, Innismara is dedicated to th...  moreInnismara, meaning “island in the sea” in Irish Gaelic, is an autonomous vocal chamber Ensemble that fills a gap in the rich tapestry of choral music in Newfoundland and Labrador. Comprised of professionally trained musicians, Innismara is dedicated to the performance of the intimate and hidden treasures of the vocal Ensemble repertoire. Innismara made its debut in the summer of 2010 at Muses and Minstrels: A Festival of Early Performing Arts held in conjunction with the Cupids 400 celebrations. In collaboration with the Hot Earth Ensemble, Innismara performed music from the late Renaissance and early Baroque, highlights of which were recorded for national broadcast on CBC Radio. The success of these performances led to an invitation to participate in a series of workshops and performances in the Labrador Inuit communities of Nunatsiavut in the spring of 2011. The entire exchange project was recorded by film-maker Nigel Markham and CBC radio producer Francesca Swann for a documentary film on the choral tra...    less