[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Apparently it’s the sumMer break here in the UK. The weather is sunny, choir doesn’t start back until September, kids are off school and ice c...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] Lots of mixed choirs don’t have enough male singers, and many established male voice choirs are not managing to find younger recruits (see my series of ...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   To make singing as accessible as possible, I don’t use sheet music when I teach. This often freaks out people who are used to having a score in their...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I teach songs without using any kind of musical notation. Like other Members of the Natural Voice Practitioners’ Network I believe that singing should...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Last tiMe I wrote about whether it’s better to be over-rehearsed or under-prepared. I talked about people who like to spend a long tiMe working on on...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Over the years I have run choirs and singing groups all based on the saMe principles, but in different locations. The general mix of genders, ages, backgro...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I have to admit that I’m not really a lyric person. I might have been listening to a particular pop song in English for years when I suddenly realise...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I’m often asked by choir Members to play a recording of a song before I start teaching it so they can get an idea of how it sounds.   ...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   The Sing Up programMe for schools was set up by the UK governMent in January 2007 and was funded by them until April 2012. Their aim is to “give ever...

FilMed from the public audience. Ascendis choir - conductor Eduard Dinu CaMerata Regală - conductor Tiberiu Soare 2 Vibes Symphony - Alex Anastasiu & Ciprian Rogojan