Half a dozen soloists

We are getting really excited now about the next City of Dunedin Choir concert -  

Beauty of Baroque 

Rehearsals started last Tuesday and straight away we made a huge dent in the Handel Utrecht Te Deum. Sounding so powerful - what a big sound! Handel certainly knew how to compose a good tune. We also took a wee bite from the Bach Magnificat - how grand!

The soloists have now all been signed up for this concert - a wonderful line-up:

Pepe Becker (soprano)
Grace Park (soprano)
Amanda Cole (mezzo-soprano)
Christopher Clifford (counter-tenor)
Stephen Chambers (tenor)
Julien van Mellaerts (bass)               Read more about his concert and mark the date in your diary!

VC3 status update

"Virtual Choir 3 submissions closed on 2nd February 2012. We received 3727 videos from 2934 people in 73 countries singing one or more parts of Water Night."  http://virtualchoir.ericwhitacre.com

Is that not amazing? It takes heaps of guts to stand in front of a microphone and camera and sing your choir part solo for a recording - which is oh, so unforgiving! Add to that the fact that Eric Whitacre's "Water Night" is not an easy work. I take my hat off to all these brave singers. Now we have to wait for the processing of the final video... watch this space.

Rowan sings Ode to Joy

Beethoven's 9th Symphony like you've never heard it before!