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Read Barbara Ann Grant’s latest concert review ‘A Revelatory Feast of Opera’. Reviewed in the Nelson Mail 16 May 2016.
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Want to join a choir? Find all the details below to help your search. There are about as many choirs in the Nelson/Tasman region as you’ve had hot dinners – there’s bound to be one here for you! If you know of a choir not listed here, please email me and I’ll be happy to add it!
Nelson Civic Choir
Conductor: Jason Balla
Contact Person: Gretchen Howard
Website: www.nelsoncivicchoir.com
Rehearsal Time: 7 pm
Rehearsal Day: Tuesday
Venue: NCMA, Nile St, Nelson
Repertoire: Major Choral Works
Performance Type: Oratorio, Baroque, Concert Versions of Opera and Operetta and light popular items
Audition format: ‘Open’ as for community choir
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Take A Chance Singers
Director: Hilary Sinclair
Contact Person: Hilary Sinclair
Phone: 03 528 9002
Email: hilarys@xtra.co.nz
Rehearsal Time: 7.30 – 9.30
Rehearsal Day: Tuesday
Rehearsal Venue: Waimea College
Venue Address: Salisbury Rd
Approx size: 60 SATB
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Nelson Bays Harmony Chorus
Conductor: Janet Roland
Web: www.nelsonharmony.org.nz
Rehearsal Time: 7 – 10 pm
Venue: Waimea Club, Richmond
Repertoire: Women’s Barbershop
Performance Type: Barbershop arrangements of light, popular and traditional pieces
Audition format: ‘Open’ as for community choir
Approx. Size: 40 (Women)
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Chroma Chamber Choir
Email: chroma.chamberchoir@gmail.com
Rehearsal Time: Evening
Rehearsal Day: Monday
Venue: NCMA Recital Theatre
Repertoire: Classical repertoire – formal works from Renaissance to contemporary
Performance Type: Madrigals, motets, masses to 20th century composers. Mainly unaccompanied.
Size: 24 SATB (8 per part)
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Nelson Male Voice
Director: Nigel Weeks
Contact: John Foes-Lamb
Email: john.foeslamb@gmail.com
Rehearsal Time: 6.45 pm
Rehearsal Day: Monday
Venue: Reformed Church Enner Glynn
Repertoire: Classical to modern
Audition format: No audition, all welcome
Size: 40
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Off Your Rockers
Contact: Robyn Beckingsale
Phone: 03 539 4724
Repertoire: Modern rock and New Zealand songs
Performance Type: Over 60’s choir modelled on the ‘Young at Heart’ choir phenomenon
Size: 50 SATB
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Soundworkz Blog
Barbara Ann Grant sings ‘Summertime’ by Gershwin
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Barbara Ann Grant sings ‘Shenandoah’
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Vlog Post – Learn to Sing Tip One – Posture for Great Singing
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» Read moreOctober 14th, 2012
They’re singing so out of tune . . . they could be a big star!?
Tweet Bad singing technique – is it really such a barrier to making it big? Have you ever noticed how many singing stars habitually and regularly sing, ‘out of tune’, nasally, with shallow gaspy breathing and / or loads of throat constriction? This is something that quite frequently preys at the back of my mind […]
» Read moreAugust 19th, 2012
Top 5 Tips for How to Sing: No. 5 Trust your Gut
Tweet How to Sing | Own your own Journey | Know when to Move On The road to barely adequate singing is paved with good lil’ singers who always did what their teachers told ’em to do! OK – this one has always been contentious, but it’s a basic truth that the time comes […]
» Read moreJuly 22nd, 2012