[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I’m ashaMed to say that I don’t know the naMe of every singer in my choir.     Unless choir Members coMe for a drink after a...

[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...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   It’s a dark January evening, cold and rainy, and we’re snuggled up in the warm eating our supper.     choir starts in half an ho...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   A few years ago I was asked by BBC Radio Suffolk to create a choir from scratch to perform in a concert in aid of Children in Need: The Big Night Out...

11th International choir and orchestra festival in Baden (Germany)07.12. - 10.12.2023 BADEN-BADEN – a charming town in the heart of the Black forest.The hot springs of the town were already appreciated and used by the Romans. The unique landscape...

Music making for kids is alive and well in the Hutt Valley, in New Zealand and two award winning groups of talented kids are performing a combined programMe in Lower Hutt on November 11th. Sing and Strings is a joint concert by The Major Minors Childre...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   choir leaders don’t last forever so there will coMe a tiMe when a choir needs to find a new one.     If you’re the person ...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I watched a TV docuMentary the other day called How a choir works with Gareth Malone.   Photo by TheCaMerons   At one point he talked about...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] I’ve written before about how you can use the long choir break to get better at what you do.   photo by troy   One way is to attend sin...

[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...