During my six years at the Guildhall School of Music the question where can I learn to sing echoed through every practice room in the building. We were in one of the top vocal training colleges in the world but that didn’t stop most of us from floundering around in a desperate effort to find …
This is the second of our 10, quick fire questions for the Singing Holidays conductors. 10 probing and searching oneliners designed to reveal all the nooks and crannies of the people behind the baton…kinda! Shifting uneasily in the inquisitor’s chair this time is the lovely and exceptionally talented conductor Robert Dean. Vocal professor at the …
2012 beckons and have we got some lovelies lined up for you next year! Five Singing Holiday Weeks, one Singing Holiday Weekend and one Taster Day in London in February. On top of all that we have “Il Contadino di Lusso’ (The Luxurious Peasant), a truly authentic and magical five night Christmas Singing Holidays Special …
Singing in a choir is great…but shouldn’t it be even more rewarding? Picture the ‘typical’ choral scene, you’re standing there with a load of other people, one eye on the music and the other on the conductor trying your level best not to goof up the whole shebang. Important thing is, keep your head down, …
Singing Holidays aren’t really choral holidays. Not that there’s anything wrong with the notion of a choral holidays week away, in fact I think it’s a great thing and I’m sure many of you have experienced the thrill of singing in a big group in a wonderful venue, and that fantastic sensation when a spot …
Amongst the summer flowers and the ‘happy pigs’ we practiced our Lotti mass (led by the brilliant Robert Dean), breathed new life into our singer’s lungs in Temi’s yoga sessions and pondered the significance of the carved bird with object in mouth that adorned the many nooks of our lovely accommodation at Ernesto’s Casale Degli …
This is the first of our 10, quick fire questions for the Singing Holidays conductors. 10 probing and searching oneliners designed to reveal all the nooks and crannies of the people behind the baton…kinda! First up, settling down uneasily into the inquisitor’s chair is the warm, very lovely and hideously talented, Principle Guest Conductor of …
OK, this is weird although I suspect you’re going to like it! If you suddenly find however, that you’ve expanded your repertoire of musical knowledge 100 fold and discover yourself up to the eyeballs in corks then you’ve taken the following way too far! We all know that eating food with wine (particularly salty or sweet foods) …