World Choir Games to include virtual participation for the first time
Event organiser INTERKULTUR has launched a 'Virtual Competitions' strand to enable all choirs worldwide to participate online.
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Dowden tweets choirs in England can re-assemble on 19 July
Oliver Dowden, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, has tweeted that choirs will be allowed to gather, rehearse and perform again…
Auditions announced for NYCGB National Youth and Training Choirs
The National Youth Choirs of Great Britain (NYCGB) has announced annual auditions for the organisation's Girls’, Boys’ and Training Choirs
Petition challenges government’s covid restrictions on choirs
A petition has been launched to try to persuade the UK government that its latest decision to block choirs from singing together is damaging to nation…
Coldstream Guards joined by B Positive Choir at the FA Cup Final
With 21,000 fans allowed to gather at Wembley Stadium for the first time in over a year, tradition dictated that the Band of the Coldstream Guards sho…
London Youth Choirs is recruiting
London Youth Choirs is recruiting conductors for the LYC Cambiata Boys' choir and the new LYC West choir
Steinberg sponsorship means new commissions for National Youth Choirs of Great Britain
Digital music specialists Steinberg have become the Principal Innovation Sponsor of NYCGB to help its New Music Programme
Applications invited for Ghanaian women-in-sound artist residency
Ghana-based NGO Black Girls Glow is seeking women sound artists, singers, rappers, poets, producers and beatmakers of all levels to join its free, wee…
Orange Learn launches vocal performance graded exams
The educational arm of Orange Amplification has announced the launch of nine graded exams in vocal performance with a syllabus including songs by Stor…
Join research into the mental advantages of choral singing
Mental Health Inclusive Choirs, the interdisciplinary team of researchers, is inviting choirs across Britain to join in their programme to help suppor…
NYCGB announces awards for emerging musicians and composers
National Youth Choirs of Great Britain (NYCGB) has announced the selection of its 2021 Young Composers and Fellowship programmes
An investigation of singing, health and well-being as a group process
The Music Teachers Association's second collective blogging project continues with responses from teachers reflecting on the article by Liz Mellor…
Education Through Music celebrates 15 years with a Disney singalong
Los Angeles-based charity Education Through Music – LA is celebrating 15 years of bringing music to under-resourced schools with a virtual red-carpe…
World Choir Festival 2021 announced
The World Youth and Children Choral Artists’ Association (WYCCAA) has opened registration for the 2021 World Choir Festival to be held in June this …
Song Academy invites young people to get inspired over half-term
Online songwriting platform Song Academy is hosting a series of songwriting workshops for 8-18-year-olds during the February half-term holidays
Sing Up At Home offers a free #FeelgoodFifteen minutes of song every Tuesday
Sing Up, England's national singing organisation, has started a free service to raise children’s spirits every Tuesday morning during the schools lo…
National Youth Choirs of Great Britain launches second Young Composers album with NMC Recordings
New choral works by four young British composers and commissioned by National Youth Choirs of Great Britain (NYCGB) are being released by NMC Recordin…
CHORALSPACE launches as new international learning organisation for choral leaders
An international academy for choral arts, CHORALSPACE, launched on 6 January to provide an online environment for choral musicians to learn, create, perform and connect.…
Europa Cantat festival 2021 invites applications
The European Choral Association has opened its doors to registrations for its 2021 Europa Cantat festival, which takes place in Ljubljana, Slovenia in…
Ora Singers school composer competition deadline approaching
Aspiring composers in UK state schools have less than two weeks to enter the ORA Singers Composer Competition, an educational scheme for choral compos…