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Chor Leoni is a low voice choir based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.The group was founded as Chor Leoni Men's Choir in 1992 by Order of Canada recipient Diane Loomer, C.M. (1940 - 2012), and consists of up to 70 TTBB singers.
National Award for Outstanding Choral Record (1989) for Derek Holman's Sir Christëmas awarded by the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors [6] First Prize (1992) in the CBC Radio Competition for Amateur Choirs, Children's Choir category; First Prize (1993) in the CBC Radio Competition for Amateur Choirs, Children's Choir category
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (10 August 1889 – 12 May 1960) was a prolific and versatile English composer. Though best known for his choral music and, in particular, songs, Gibbs also devoted much of his career to the amateur choral and festival movements in Britain.
Forrest is equally at home in both concert music and church music, and he composes for ensembles across the spectrum of choral music. His background in academia and experience with professional choirs and orchestras allows him to write complex music that requires sophisticated performers, yet he also writes music accessible for amateur choirs. [15]
Roy Harris (15 June 1933 – 9 February 2016) was a British folk singer known for his role in the starting the folk club movement in southern Wales in the 1960s. He was often referred to as the “gentleman of folk song” due to his warm personality and congeniality as a folk club host.
Billed as one of the world's greatest Negro choirs, the Wings Over Jordan Choir is regarded as a forerunner [12] of the civil rights movement [13] and a driving force in the development of choral music [14] helping to both preserve [15] by introducing traditional spirituals to a mainstream audience. [16]
The Holst Singers are an amateur choir based in London, England. The choir is named indirectly after the English composer Gustav Holst, taking its name from the Holst Room at St Paul's Girls' School, the venue for rehearsals during the choir's early years. [1] The musical director is the English conductor Stephen Layton.
Choirs are often led by a conductor or choirmaster/mistress or a choir director. Most often choirs consist of four sections intended to sing in four part harmony, but there is no limit to the number of possible parts as long as there is a singer available to sing the part: Thomas Tallis wrote a 40-part motet entitled Spem in alium, for eight choirs of five parts each; Krzysztof Penderecki's ...