14th International Choir and orchestra festival in Cracow (Poland)27.09. - 01.10.2023 CRACOW – one of the twelve most important towns in the worldThe former capital of Poland is one of Europe’s last undiscovered destinations by mass tourism...

We are refreshing the new tradition and coming back to Budapest, the country of Kodály Method. Let's  celebrate and promote choral music, let us spread the value and experience of singing in a Choir - as Kodály said: Music should belong...

You Don't Know Nothing performed by MLADA Choir Conductor: Olga Vyguzova Пермский хор «Млада», Пермь Художественный руководитель: Ольга Выгузова (Заслуженный деятель искусств РФ)

Comprised of more than 20 experienced singers. All have a wealth of vocal experience. Many have sung in barbershop choruses and quartets. Others have strong choral backgrounds.

The Berlin Girls Choir: concert at the Berlin Philharmonie

Soloist Alexey Neklyudov (Tenor) Concert in Basilica di San Nicola in Bari, Italy at

The Addison Singers Chamber Choir need a few extra voices (SATB but especially basses) for our upcoming concert with the renowned composer GAVIN BRYARS on 17th May 2014.  http://www.gavinbryars.com/calendar/london-performance-jesus-blood-plus-other-c...

  The Hutt Valley Singers have been busily preparing a full and exciting year of singing for 2015, starting off with a performance of Karl Jenkins ‘The Armed Man’ with the Upper Hutt Brass Band and the Wainuiomata Choir. This popular wor...

I Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. The text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "Thi...  moreI Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. The text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "This is a poem of grandeur and of praise. Therefore it might be expected that this musical setting would aim at vastness, grandeur and awakening." Walker accomplishes this through a variety of means. First, the piano introduction includes slowly unfolding piano arpeggios which focus on open intervals of octaves, fifths and fourths, exploiting the full range of the piano keyboard. The composer also takes the singers on a harmonic journey which begins in a low register in C minor, and then travels through a number of other key areas until it reaches the distant key of G-flat. At this point, the voices are drawn closely together into a tone cluster containing the pitches G-flat, A-flat and B-flat, only to open apart into the glorious C major chords which conclude the ...    less

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I wrote a post a a few years back called Do you need singing lessons in order to sing?   Photo by Anna Strumillo   My main point was ...