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  Gdansk Choir Festival
Friday, February 17, 2012 - Sunday, February 19, 2012

Gdansk (Poland) will host an  International Gdansk Choir Festival from 17-19th February 2012.


It's festival for competitive and non-competitive choirs. This year the head of the jury will be composer Vytautas Miskinis together with the Jury members from Macedonia, Singapore Slovakia and Poland.


Most events will take place in Concert Hall of Gdansk Academy of Music as well as additional concerts in Gdansk and region.


Further details can be found here.

  Voices Festival, Liverpool
Friday, March 16, 2012 12pm - Sunday, March 18, 2012 1pm

A three day festival of a cappella singing curated by Sense of Sound.  Performers include Connie Lush and Shlomo and the festival will feature a debate of singing and health.  "From hip hop to barbershop and contemporary jazz to choral, Voices a cappella festival will showcase the full range of a cappella singing styles, giving plenty of opportunity for everyone to interact, get involved and get singing!".  Festival pass is £30 before 20th Feb and £40 thereafter although tickets are also available for individual events.  See www.senseofsound.org for further details.

  Sing a Cappella! 2012 coaching day & concert
Sunday, April 29, 2012 9:30am

A unique opportunity to be tutored by former Swingle and Voces8 singers, for you to attend as an individual, or as a group.


Further details will be posted here shortly.

  Sweet Adelines (UK) Convention
Friday, May 11, 2012 - Sunday, May 13, 2012

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Kings Singers: Appointment of Chris Bruerton makes national news

We are thrilled at the response of the media in New Zealand to the appointment of Chris Bruerton as the first foreign national member of the group since its beginning in 1968. As a popular and talented member of the Christchurch Cathedral choir as well as the National Youth Choir of New Zealand when he was growing up, Chris is a well known member of the musical world in New Zealand. Chris has already been interviewed via Skype for Radio New Zealand, and you can hear the Podcast here. The story has also been featured in the National Business Review in an article about New Zealand artists featuring on the world-wide cultural stage. The National Youth Choir of New Zealand are rightly proud of Chris, and he is featured on the alumni page of their website. amp;nbsp; As a group we are thoroughly looking forward to our return visit to Australia and New Zealand, 27 years since our last visit, and for this to include Chrisamp;rsquo;s first performance with the group will make it specially memorable for us all. Tickets are on sale now for all of our concerts in Australia and New Zealand, make sure you book early to avoid disappointment.amp;nbsp;

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Last Updated (Wednesday, 18 January 2012 13:40)

 

Grammy Nomination for The Kings Singers

We are delighted to announce that our recording of the track The Stolen Child which features on Eric Whitacreamp;rsquo;s debut album amp;ldquo;Light and Goldamp;rdquo; has been nominated for a Grammy award. Reaching the top of both the UK and US Classical charts within a week of release, the recording has been nominated in the amp;ldquo;Best Choral Performanceamp;rdquo; category, having been released on Decca in October 2010 to huge critical acclaim. In a 5 star review, BBC Music Magazine said of the work amp;ldquo;amp;lsquo;The Stolen Childamp;rsquo;, a joint commission for the Kingamp;rsquo;s Singers and the National Youth Chorus of Great Britain, is the most immediately impressive. Here Whitacre deftly weaves the entreating faerie voices of Yeatamp;rsquo;s poem with that of the amp;lsquo;human childamp;rsquo; in closely interlocking textures whose shifting strands are expertly rendered by the artists in this performance.amp;rdquo; The Stolen Child was commissioned for our 40th

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The Magnets in 2012 UK/Oz/German/Dutch Tour Dates

Happy New Year from The Magnets. Traditionally our year starts slowly, but in 2012 we’re off to a flier with 60+ shows booked in before the end of May,

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Last Updated (Wednesday, 18 January 2012 13:40)

 

Vocal Blog: LACF 2012 Video Greetings

recorded by Vocal Blog on Tour aka Florian Städtler on Sat, Jan 14th at Kings Place, London Three times is a tradition, they say. So after Aarhus Vocal Festival 2011 and SoJam 2011, Vocal Blog video greetings from international vocal music events are now becoming a tradition. I haven’t counted the nationalities, groups etc. But [...]

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Last Updated (Wednesday, 18 January 2012 13:41)

 

Vocal Blog: From Europe with Tough Love

This post is a spontaneous response by Vocal Blog founder Florian Städtler to an outstanding article written by CASA founder Deke Sharon at www.casa.org yesterday. You can read the original post here and will find my reply. Comments would be very much appreciated.     Hi Deke, it’s been a while since a [...]

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