Our Annual Convention in Glasgow begins in just a few days time - places are still available! If you wish to book accommodation with us, your booking needs to be made by Monday morning; after that you will still be able to make non-residential and one-day bookings. Call Tricia Rees-Jones on 01749 330160/07497895664 or click here to make your booking online.
Just some of the highlights:
- Our ever-popular repertoire reading sessions - covering music for all voice combinations
- Our exhibition, packed with stand holders from north and south of the border - click here for details
- Back by popular request, Helen Hampton, leader of Popchoir, showing how to get pop music right with a choir
- Vocal technique - the issues of bel canto singing and rejuvenating older voices with Edward Caswell and Wilma MacDougall
- Taxing music - musician and accountant Trevor Ford advises on making the most of your earnings
- Healthy singing - find out more about the health benefits of group-singing activities for all, including the elderly, those with dementia and the socially isolated, with Anne Lewis, Diana Kerr and Alan Tavener
- Some of today's leading composers, including Bob Chilcott, Mårten Jansson, Sir James MacMillan, Paul Mealor and Will Todd
- Inspiration for all those working with young voices from Mandy Miller and NYCoS Education Director Lucinda Geoghegan
- Artistic Director of the Dunedin Consort, John Butt, sharing his passion for Bach
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James Meaders on the vital topic of rehearsal pacing
- The chance to sing Parry's wonderful Songs of Farewell, led by Jeremy Jackman
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Pre-Convention conducting course 24-25 August with Keith Orrell and Susan Dingle
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Young Conductors' Course 25-27 August with Amy Bebbington
Find out all the latest details of the programme at our Convention website - click here!
Posted: Sun 20th August 2017
