News and Notices

By Madhulka Gautama   SHILLONG, INDIA – What started as an attempt to hone musical talent in the northeast, took the country by storm and in 2010, the Shillong Chamber Choir won India’s Got Talent Khoj 2. This fifteen-member choir group then went on to bag three golds at the 6th World Choir Games in Shanghai, and […]

FARNHAM, SURREY, UK  — PIONEERING contemporary singers the Rock Choir are bidding to break a world record with help from their singers in Stroud. The choir hopes to break the Guinness Record for the largest song and dance routine across multiple venues by getting over 9,000 people in tune at the same time this weekend. The […]

As plans are underway for its tenth concert season, ProMusica Arizona (PMAZ) is pleased to announce that Dr. Adam Stich has been named Artistic Director for the organization. The PMAZ Board of Directors voted unanimously to offer the position to Dr. Stich following the resignation of Co-Artistic Director and Orchestra Conductor, Kevin Kozacek.   Dr. Stich joined […]

LONDON — Listeners of Radio 3’s Choral Evensong could be forgiven for thinking that some higher power is at work.  The show, the longest-running outside broadcast anywhere in the world, has been ‘cursed’ by a series of unrelated technical problems.  Four out of six broadcasts have dropped off air since April 25 due to a lost […]

B Jon Silman   GAINESVILLE — In a round rehearsal room, on a wooden stool in front of a piano, a youth choir leader in jeans and suspenders said goodbye. It was minutes before Sonlight Youth Choir & Band was set to perform at the Trinity United Methodist Church on Sunday night, and D.J. Head Jr. […]

By Idell O’Leary   SACRAMENTO —  Saturday night at the Sacramento Choral Society’s fundraising party “Raising a Voice for the Arts,” James McCormick, SCSO president, announced that Wells Fargo Bank would underwrite the cost of two concerts. One is the annual Home for the Holidays, which is now renamed The Wells Fargo Home for the […]