The fourth community choir festival raising funds for the Bendigo Radiotherapy Foundation Inc

Sunday 20 November 2011 2:00 pm
Sacred Heart Cathedral

Participating choirs:

• Sacred Heart Cathedral Choir
• Kangaroo Flat Primary School Choir
• Blue Note Vocals
• Women of Note
• Bendigo Youth Choir
• Victorian Welsh Choir (Bendigo chapter)
• St Paul’s Cathedral Choir
• Sing Australia
• The Silver Flames (Eaglehawk Primary School)
• Neale St Uniting Church Choir
• The Suits
• Bendigo Chamber Choir
• Massed choir and audience—Joy to the World (Handel)
  

The third community choir festival raising funds for the Bendigo Radiotherapy Foundation Inc

Participating choirs:

• St Paul’s Cathedral Choir
• Kangaroo Flat Primary School Choir
• Women of Note
• Choir with no name yet
• Gorgeous Voices Choir
• Bendigo Chamber Choir
• Spring Gully Primary School Choir and Bendigo Youth Choir (Reserve)
• Neale St Uniting Church Choir
• Sing Australia
• Massed choir and audience—I Still Call Australia Home

When and where

Sunday 14 Sep 2008 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

St Andrews Church Hall  Myers St  Bendigo

• Vocal health
• The natural volume of our voice
• Relaxing the body while singing
• ‘Sleeping breath’
• Giving your voice space through correct posture
• The ‘calling’ technique
• Getting more out of your voice with less effort
• Harmony and rhythm—with a Georgian flavour
• Balancing voice resonance & overtones for a full-bodied sound

Presenters and format

The workshop has 2 presenters, specialists who will advance our skills in voice, harmony and rhythm. Participants divide into 2 groups. The presenters each run a 90 minute session with each group. At the end of the workshop the presenters direct a ‘big sing’ for the whole group.

Voice production and health (how to sing)

Presenter: John Lander
Getting more out of your voice with less effort; vocal health; ‘sleeping breath’; relaxation of the body; the ‘calling’ technique; the natural volume of our voice; giving your voice space through correct posture; balancing voice resonance and overtones in a choir for a full-bodied sound.

Harmony and rhythm (what to sing)

Presenter: Dr Nino Tsitsishvili
Developing our sense of harmony and rhythm—with a Georgian flavour.

Anyone may attend who sings in a choir or who wants to sing in a choir.

Information and tickets

Enquiries: info@bendigochamberchoir.org.au or David 0408 053 990

Tickets: $40 from Capital Theatre 03 5434 6100

Tickets may be available at the door if there is space in the workshop.

The second community choir festival raising funds for the Bendigo Radiotherapy Foundation Inc:

• Sing Australia
• Kangaroo Flat Primary School Choir
• Women of Note
• Girton Singers
• Cornish Choir
• Blue Note
• Neale St Uniting Church Choir
• Spring Gully Primary School Choir, Strathfieldsaye Primary School Choir and Bendigo Youth Choir (Reserve)
• Bendigo Chorale
• Bendigo Youth Choir
• Bendigo Chamber Choir

The first Sing for Joy community choir festival raising funds for the Bendigo Radiotherapy Foundation Inc.

Participating choirs

• Sing Australia
• Weeroona College
• Women of Note
• Eurofest
• Neale St Uniting Church Choir
• Cornish Choir
• Spring Gully Primary School Choir
• Bendigo Chorale
• Bendigo Youth Choir
• Bendigo Chamber Choir

Choir organised a successful afternoon workshop open to all choir singers in the community