Choral Workshops
Every year, the Suffolk Singers put on a Choral Workshop led by our Director Claire Weston, and her team. We regularly have around 150 people join us for what is a productive and jolly day.
Our aims are
- for people with a like minded interest to come together and meet each other
- for people to enjoy sharing music-making
- to provide the opportunity for you to sing larger works that singers might not often have the chance to sing with their choir
- to learn some valuable singing technique
- to have a real sense of achievement from the start to the end of the day
- for you to enjoy it: it's not about perfection but having a work in progress because for us music is about joy and collaboration with others who have the same goal in sight
- have lots of lovely cakes!
A typical day runs from 9.30am to around 5.00pm
- Registering, with refreshments provided
- Coming together to listen to the works and have a sight-read
- Coffee break
- Sectional rehearsals with Claire and her team
- Lunch (BYO)
- Further sectional rehearsals
- Group rehearsal
- Cake Break [2016 saw over 900 individual portions of cake]
- Free performance to friends and family at 4.30pm
Workshops so far have included:
- 2010 Haydn - Little Organ Mass
- 2011 Fauré - Requiem
- 2012 Coronation Music by Handel, Elgar, and Parry
- 2013 Rutter - Requiem
- 2015 Famous Opera Choruses by Purcell, Mozart, Verdi, and Puccini.
- 2016 Famous Choruses by Handel, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Verdi
- 2017 Rutter - Gloria
- 2018 Hutchings - The Suffolk Carols
Photos from recent Choral Workshops at Framlingham College
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Two recordings from the 2012 Choral Workshop
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