News and Notices

Roy Mueller, a highly regarded non-profit arts administrator with deep roots in Southern California, has been appointed Executive Director of the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus (LACC) following a nationwide search, it was announced by LACC Board Chair Joanne Crawford-Dunér.  Mueller, who is also an accomplished musician, previously served as Executive Director of the San Luis […]

NOTTINGHAM, UK — THE choir of Nottingham's St Barnabas' Cathedral has been given a £25,000 boost from a group dedicated to developing music.  The grant from the Friends of Cathedral Music will go towards the choir's choral scholarship endowment fund, used to support gifted singers studying at the University of Nottingham to sing with the choir. […]

SALISBURY, UK — Calne schoolboy Jason Kellinger has been promoted to be a full chorister in the prestigious Salisbury Cathedral Choir. The ten-year-old, pictured, was promoted in an ancient ceremony which took place in the cathedral, following on from a year when he was a probationer with the choir.  Jason, who until last year attended Fynamore […]

For the first time in 800 years, female choristers have been accepted into Lichfield Cathedral’s Choral Foundation.  The group have been singing the services in the historic building since 1315, but the voices of girls will be heard for the first time on September 23.  The 3.30pm choral evensong will be of “great historical significance”. […]

We observe two special occasions this Sunday. It is the Eve of the Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashana is Monday, September 17. It is also Dia de la Independencia in Mexico.   The major work for this show is Sir Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time. Tippett was profoundly influenced by the Kristallnacht events […]

STAFFORDSHIRE, UK — AN all-male choir has taken the decision to recruit female members – for the first time in 41 years.  Members of Stone Male Voice Choir are reinventing the group after losing their conductor and around 20 members over the past five years.  Now they are appealing for new male and female singers to […]