LIMERICK, IRELAND — Thursday, 30 September 2010 12:01 “CHORAL music is going through a certain renaissance now. It has become a very popular past-time to be involved in,” declares one who knows. Liz Powell is chief executive officer of the Limerick based Association of Irish Choirs (AOIC), an organisation that carries the strapline “enchancing life […]

Randall Giles, composer and ethnomusicologist, died Aug. 27, 2010, in India, following a heart attack. He was 60.     In 1999, as a missionary of the Episcopal church, Randy was invited to serve the Church of South India, to do parish-based work in music, and to work towards the founding of a center for Indian […]

KUALA LUMPUR – For the first time, a choir comprising 27 autistic children performed to a full audience yesterday with their rendition of Heal the world and You raise me up. This feat was recorded in the Malaysia Book of Records as the first autistic choir in the country. The children, aged between seven and […]

Poland’s most prominent choral conductor, Stefan Stuligrosz, founder and music director of the Poznan Nightingales (Slowiki) Boys’ and Men’s Choir, has been decorated with the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest state distinction.   Stuligrosz received the decoration from President Bronislaw Komorowski at a gala concert in Pozna?, which was also a celebration of […]

ABERSTWYTH, WALES, UK — IT has long been a tradition for university students to join clubs and societies, taking part in extra-curricular activities such as sport and singing. With so much competition, societies often come and go, but one which has remained a regular feature at Aberystwyth University is the Elizabethan Madrigal Singers, affectionately knows […]

Chor Leoni’s MYVoice program aims to introduce teenage boys to the world of choral singing By Julie MacLellan, The Record October 13, 2010 VANCOUVER, BC — Whatever you do, just don’t tell Kevin Zakresky that you can’t carry a tune in a bucket – or any other combination of words that might imply you can’t […]