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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.
Beginning with 70 members, it currently has more than 33,000 members across the UK. [17] Caroline Redman Lusher is widely considered to be the pioneer of the "no audition, no need to read music" amateur contemporary choir movement. A 2009 article in the Sunday Times Culture Magazine called her "the key to the choir's success". [18]
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.
This article is based on interviews with Florence Kopleff, who was a member of the Robert Shaw Chorale throughout its existence and served as administrative assistant to Mr. Shaw; and on recollections of John W. Cooledge, a member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Chamber Chorus, and of the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers throughout the existence of that group.
Brighton Festival Chorus (abbreviated to BFC) is a large choir of over 150 amateur singers based in Brighton, UK.One of the country's leading symphony choruses.., [1] and considered "one of the jewels in the city's musical crown", [2] BFC performs in major concert halls throughout Britain and Europe, particularly in Brighton and London.
Rock Choir was established in 2005 by musician and singer Caroline Redman Lusher.. The Sunday Times Culture magazine said 'its formula is unique. Learning by rote (repetition, not sheet music), amateurs rehearse harmonies and choreographed movements to those hits that everybody knows and impulsively sings along to'. [9]
Berliner Singakademie, consisting of nearly 90 singers, is one of the largest amateur choirs in Berlin. It sees itself in the tradition of Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, founded in 1791 and still existing. The choir sings Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern and Contemporary music. The choir was founded in 1963 by Helmut Koch.
The Paris Choral Society (or PCS) is an auditioned amateur choir based at the American Cathedral in Paris, France. The PCS is incorporated as a voluntary association under French law as an Association loi de 1901, and is made up of 100 singers of different nationalities [1] dedicated to the performance of choral masterpieces. Three concerts are ...