[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Some choirs don’t perform at all (see Choirs that don’t perform). But most choirs, at some point, will want to share their hard work with...

We don’t have to choose between rigor and accessibility, and we don’t have to choose between evaluating something as “great” or “excellent” and valuing every rung of the music making skill ladder. Music reading is a gre...

Vincent by Don McLean, arranged by Roger Emerson (full lyrics) Saturday, March 17, 2018 Mayslake Peabody Estate, Oak Brook, IL

Live by Bel Canto Choir Vilnius (January 2015). Buy our music on iTunes & Amazon. "don't Leave Me, Sun", a composition by Vytautas Miškinis. Performed Live by the Bel Canto Choir Vilnius and soloist Lina Dambrauskaitė. Live from the Bel Canto Choir Vil...  moreLive by Bel Canto Choir Vilnius (January 2015). Buy our music on iTunes & Amazon. "don't Leave Me, Sun", a composition by Vytautas Miškinis. Performed Live by the Bel Canto Choir Vilnius and soloist Lina Dambrauskaitė. Live from the Bel Canto Choir Vilnius special concert, entitled "Bel Canto Choir Vilnius: Delicate and Personal" on January 23, 2015 at St. Catherine Church in Vilnius, Lithuania. For more information on the Choir, please visit its web site at http://www.chorasbelcanto.lt Credits: Artūras Dambrauskas (Artistic Director & Chief Conductor of Bel Canto Choir Vilnius); Audrius Valatkevičius (Executive Producer); Vytautas Drazdauskas (Video Producer at ARTBOX production house); Jonas Juozapaitis (Director); Šarūnas Burža (Director of Photography); Laura Jurgelionytė (Recording Director); Dainius Kazilionis (Sound Designer); Mykolas Lėckas (Lightening Design); Jonas Juozapaitis (Video Editor at VRS WPI Vilnius).  less

Three Valleys Gospel choir believe that everyone can sing. We are open to anyone who enjoys singing. You don’t have to be able to read music or have sung in a choir before, and we don’t audition! We meet every Monday to sing a cappella’ gospel music from...  moreThree Valleys Gospel choir believe that everyone can sing. We are open to anyone who enjoys singing. You don’t have to be able to read music or have sung in a choir before, and we don’t audition! We meet every Monday to sing a cappella’ gospel music from African spirituals to gospel classics and soul/pop/rock.  

[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...

Come to Fundão, to the first edition of BEIRA INTERIOR International Choir Festival & Competition The BEIRA Grand Prize is waiting for You! Don´t You like to sing at a new Choir Festival and Competition in Portugal? So why don´t yo...

Choirs R Us performing at their Christmas Concert 2013 in Barnet on 7 December with Choir Director: Jenny Bennett. Guest singer: Marc Joseph. For more info: www.choirsrus.co.uk

[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...

The concert "ACH! PG Carnivalesque" under the patronage of Prof. Krzysztof Wilde, rector of Gdańsk Tech, attracted several hundred people who listened to daring performances of popular pop music hits. During the performance we heard choral arrangements of...  moreThe concert "ACH! PG Carnivalesque" under the patronage of Prof. Krzysztof Wilde, rector of Gdańsk Tech, attracted several hundred people who listened to daring performances of popular pop music hits. During the performance we heard choral arrangements of hits such as: "Dancing Queen", "Memory", "California Dreamin'" and "Maria". This time it was not Mozart or Bach, but ABBA, Queen and songs from the musical West Side Story that graced the walls of the Gdansk University of Technology in carnivalesque musical artistic creations. Jazz musicians performed along with the choir, and the musical effects were accompanied by a unique lighting arrangement, which required appropriate space and audience arrangement. The more-than-hour-long performance by the Academic Choir of the Gdańsk University of Technology, conducted by Prof. Mariusz Mróz and accompanied by musicians from the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz, ended with joint singing, encores and a standing ovation.  less