[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...
[This post was previously published on our blog, "Backstage at Encore Tours"] (Photo courtesy of planetpov.com) So you’ve traveled internationally and are now looking for something a little closer to home, or maybe you want to work...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] The average age of people who attend the choirs and workshops that I run must be around 50. I would say that about a third of any group is of retirement ag...
Am I charismatic? How would I know?And what am I supposed to do about it? Charisma can be a problematic subject for conductors. We are told that it is an essential element for musical leadership, but we are also told it is a magical quality that ...
In this way has happened on the 14th In... Canto sul Garda International Choir Festival & Competition too. This year more than 450 singers came from 10 countries to share their musical knowledge and sing together in one of the most beautiful parts of Ital...
Pasadena Master Chorale recording , "Rejoice, O Virgin" by Sergei Rachmaninoff (Богородице Дево), conducted by Jeffrey Bernstein. November 14, 2011 - La Crescenta Presbyterian Church - La Crescenta, California. http://www.pasadenamasterchorale.org ... more
Mercury/Fontenelle: Love of My Love - Live recoding of the Waldorf Students Choir, conductor: László Bencze. Recorded on 24. 05. 2014. at the Night of the Choirs, Budapest, Hungary
"Amor Vittorioso" was written in 1591 as part of a musical Commedia dell'arte. What could that have to do with half hour TV comedies? Well, I'll tell you. Did you know that Renaissance Madrigals helped birth Opera and Operettas? Yeah, I didn't e...
He was involved in music from his early childhood on, his father, Josef Wolfgang Ziegler, a well-known Austrian composer and choral director taught the first musical steps to him. Singing and playing the violin became his passions. In the USA he starte...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I was collecting money at a workshop recently (something I nearly always forget as I always get so carried away with the singing!) and somebody mention...
