DUMFRIES, SCOTLAND, UK — Twenty-three members of the Dumfries and Galloway Regional Youth Choir (DGRYC), with students from schools throughout the area, have been part of an amazing experience meeting other young musicians from Germany, thanks to Dumfries’ links with twin-town Gifhorn, writes Robert Guthrie. Over three days during September, members of the choir met singers from the […]
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Deepest a cappella performance: Sudbury choir sets world record
SUDBURY, ON — The Ariadne Women’s Chamber Choir of Sudbury, Ont., recently took its act two kilometres underground in Vale Inco Ltd.’s Creighton Mine in Sudbury – setting the new world record for the deepest a cappella performance. Ten of the group’s 12 members donned special coveralls, protective eyeglasses and hard hats and descended with miners into Vale […]
Donation boosts cathedral choir
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. […]
Schoolboy’s choir dream
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 […]
New Duruflé/Milford CD – The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford
The Choir of Somerville College, one of the best mixed-voice choirs in the University of Oxford, is proud to announce the release of its new album ‘REQUIEM AETERNAM’ (Stone Records 5060192780208), a recording of two works written in 1947 as a response to World War II: Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem (version for choir, organ and cello) […]
Woman’s touch for choir
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 […]