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Choirs in Dublin?
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03-10-2007 2:55pm#1
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What's your musical background - have you ever sung in a choir before, and can you read music?
If you're in college in Dublin, UCD and TCD have decent choirs with mainly young people (for obvious reasons).
If you're not in college, and especially if you can read music, the Goethe Institute* choir is good - it's got a big mixture of ages and nationalities, with a lot of young people. They practise in the Goethe Institute library on Merrion Square on Tuesdays at 7.30pm. Their director, John Dexter, is very good and they have a good standard. They're singing Saint-Saens' Oratorio de Noel plus Christmas songs in the NCH in December, then some of the Bach Cantatas in the spring, and the Good Friday concert in St Patrick's Cathedral.
(full disclosure: yes, I do sometimes sing with them
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*the German cultural institute - like the Alliance Francaise, only German. They do lessons, cultural events and so on. The choir is called after the place and operates out of there but is completely separate otherwise.0 -
bonz wrote:What's your musical background - have you ever sung in a choir before, and can you read music?
If you're in college in Dublin, UCD and TCD have decent choirs with mainly young people (for obvious reasons).
If you're not in college, and especially if you can read music, the Goethe Institute* choir is good - it's got a big mixture of ages and nationalities, with a lot of young people. They practise in the Goethe Institute library on Merrion Square on Tuesdays at 7.30pm. Their director, John Dexter, is very good and they have a good standard. They're singing Saint-Saens' Oratorio de Noel plus Christmas songs in the NCH in December, then some of the Bach Cantatas in the spring, and the Good Friday concert in St Patrick's Cathedral.
(full disclosure: yes, I do sometimes sing with them )
*the German cultural institute - like the Alliance Francaise, only German. They do lessons, cultural events and so on. The choir is called after the place and operates out of there but is completely separate otherwise.
Hi
My background is that my only choral experience was school and church choirs for a few years, won a few competitions and sang a few solos in the NCH etc along the way, but that's it really.
I have been taking classical voice training for 7 years now and I am a mezzo soprano. My sight reading is not the best as I did not have the chance to do music at school and my teachers have just taught me voice, no theory apart from the odd tit bit, so I am working on this myself..I'm a fast learner with respects to these things. What is their membership like/audition process? Thanks 0 -
Hi Papillon - the membership is very mixed in every way - I think the ages go from about 17 to 70 but about half would be in their 20s, while the musical level is also quite mixed*. It's a very friendly choir.Papillon87 wrote:Hi
My background is that my only choral experience was school and church choirs for a few years, won a few competitions and sang a few solos in the NCH etc along the way, but that's it really. I have been taking classical voice training for 7 years now and I am a mezzo soprano. My sight reading is not the best as I did not have the chance to do music at school and my teachers have just taught me voice, no theory apart from the odd tit bit, so I am working on this myself..I'm a fast learner with respects to these things. What is their membership like/audition process? Thanks
If you'd like to try it out, just come a little early some Tuesday night and look lost - someone will take care of you and introduce you to John Dexter the director, who'll give you an audition at the coffee break.
Meanwhile, 7 years of training - cool! If your voice is well-developed, it opens more possibilities. For example, one of the opera companies in Dublin (I *think* it's Lyric Opera) has an amateur chorus which might be interesting to join.
Or you could try Anúna - they're always looking for new people and you don't really need to be a reader. It's a tiny bit cult-like but it's still Ireland's best-known choir and it's a great learning experience both as a musician and as a performer. If Michael likes you, you get to do lots of touring and interesting gigs. Sometimes they even pay you!
Bonzo
* but the director really is excellent and the sound they achieve at concerts is good0 -
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