Tim Sharp, ACDA Join thousands of choirs around the world as we join together in the celebration of World Choral Day on Sunday, December 12, 2010. Millions of singers across the globe have been involved in World Choral Day concerts, festivals, sing-alongs, choral seminars, Days of Friendship and other events that celebrate our unity in […]
News and Notices
Northwest Choral Society welcomes Alan Wellman as its new Music Director
After a yearlong search process, Northwest Choral Society welcomes Alan Wellman as its new Music Director Alan Wellman Mr. Wellman is pleased and proud to take the baton and conduct his inaugural concert as the newly appointed director of the Northwest Choral Society. Collaborative pianist Lori Lyn Mackie will accompany the chorus. The Northwest Choral […]
Italian Choral Conductor Commutes to England
LANCASHIRE, UK — A conductor who commutes from Bologna to Preston each week to lead a choir has said there are “more opportunities” for choral music in Lancashire. Marco Fanti, 34, became conductor and director of the Preston Cecilian Choral Society in September. He now makes a 2,000 mile (3,200km) round trip each […]
Celebrating half-century of musical inspiration
Organist, choir director at Belmont church has endowment established in her honor BOSTON — Like a lot of ambitious young New York musicians, Avery Griffin dabbles in a bit of everything, from singing during the holidays with the St. Thomas Fifth Avenue Choir to writing experimental music. If not for the choir director […]
Outreach choir
Indigenous Australians are five times more likely to experience mental illness than the rest of the population – a problem often exacerbated by their reluctance to seek help. Now a new program’s been developed to tackle mental health issues through song. Queensland’s Aboriginal and Islander Health Council has set up five community choirs to attack […]
Polifonia.info – The choral social network
Polifonia.info (www.polifonia.info) is a Social Network Web site that came to live on the 12th of November 2011, and it will be running in “beta testing” until the 31st of December 2011. The idea behind Polifonia.info is to bring together people passionate about choir music. Through Polifonia.info, members will be able to find (and/or invite) […]