News and Notices

  The University of Houston Moores School of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Jeb Mueller as Assistant Professor of Choral Music where he will conduct the University Men’s Chorus, Concert Women’s Chorus, help prepare opera choruses, and teache choral music education courses. In addition to his teaching duties, Mueller is an active […]

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By Lois Goldrich   TENAFLY, NJ — As Shirah, the Community Chorus at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, prepares to celebrate its 18th year with a gala concert on June 10, founding director and conductor Matthew Lazar says he is proud of what the group represents. “Shirah is a community,” said Lazar, known to his […]

By Rhiannon Horrell   AUKLAND, NZ — A softly spoken Ugandan boy who is in the country as part of a travelling children’s choir is matter-of-fact about his upbringing in the east African nation. Geoffrey Oyaka, 12, says he lost his parents as a child.  “I lost my mother to HIV/Aids. My father was abducted by […]

Eileen Fields, accompanist for the Pennsylvania Youth Chorale, was presented with the choir’s annual Community Servce Award at the PYC’s 35th Anniversary Spring Concert on Sat. May 19, 2012.  The presentation was made at the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathederal during the concert and was received with an enthusiastic, extended standing ovation!  The award recognizes Ms. Fields’ […]

By Jaime McLoughlin   BURSCOUGH, UK — A GROUP of churchgoers in Burscough celebrated with cheerful voice on learning they had helped smash a world record for carol singing. When 300 people gathered at St John the Baptist Church on December 18 last year, they were among almost 200 other churches across the globe hoping to […]