hyye choir! :D
this post is torture dedicated for the non-touring members. :D

to all ye people who hath gone for ROCs,
i hope you had fun!
i would have loved to go to Malaysia or OBS.. :(

looks like the concert is coming nearer and nearer..
scared yet? nahh, of course not!
please work hard!
memorize the scores and learn up the dance!

everyone: "did you say.. dance?"

yes i did! the awesome choreography team (of Moi and Siying) came up with a cool dance!
it's for Joyful Joyful. they took HOURS to make it! please thank them!
i love it a lot! :D

everyone: "but we just came back from ROCs! how will we learn?"

well non-touring members, please be in school on the 28th at 7.30 AM!
we hope to perfect everything by 1PM, but be prepared to stay back as late as 5PM..

we only have one practice left. let us make the most of it.

as for Saturday itself, please be at school by 1PM. thanks!

okay as for the songs we need to learn up properly! they are:
- ubi caritas
- hodie christus natus
- let it shine
- joyful joyful
- hail holy queen

*stares* i think there should be more, but these are the ones that need the most perfecting!
ESPECIALLY the Sister Act songs because WE ARE CLAPPING/DANCING TO THEM!!

anyway, to those who have learnt their part of the dance, please teach the ROCs returners if they ask you for help!
we have to work harder and harder, but we will grow and have fun together as a family!

also, please try and sell all concert tickets and cards ASAP!
we must help the choir as the choir has helped us. :)

(oh and for anyone who cares, SJ is coming to Singapore this June! yay!)

God bless and best of luck!
shuuuuuuu (there are 7 'u's in it xD)

Hey Choir!

I really should be doing last-minute homework now, but I figured I might as well post something happy on the blog!

So, this is a randomish video of this doooood who sings on Youtube! And he's like :O

I guess I thought that he had some things we could learn from him, like when you perform, you perform 100%; you can't get embarrassed and pull out and not give your all, cos then you'll look even weirder/lamer. So ya! He does guy and girl parts and imagine if he didn't put in all his effort, he'd come out looking REAAAAAAAAALLY. QUEER.

So yeaaahhhh. When you perform, make sure you give AT LEAST, your 100%!

ENJOY!

-Marian

why hello there.

well CTs are almost over.

my last paper is tomorrow. math. so i should be studying but oh psshhhh.

SO.

we're leaving for russia in about a month, so FULL SPEED AHEAD.

cantabile is SOON. do you know that bile is a digestive juice [secreted by the liver] which aids in the digestion of fats?

so as mentioned earlier, FULL SPEED AHEAD :D

it's all polishing etc (with the exception of let it shine)

and we're gonna do GREAT xP

remember to revise your scores for wednesday!

and once again (just for good measure), FULL SPEED AHEAD:DDD

yeah.

that's about it.

this post was rather random.

at least you got to learn about bile:D

hey choir:D

it's been more than a week since the last person posted.

so i shall post.

sisteract pieces are fun, no?

great job learning BOTH PIECES yesterday xDDDDD

only let it shine left to learn, huzzah!

study hard for common tests

science modular papers for lower sec BLEGH D:

remember to revise you scores!

haha you can look through them when you take breaks from studying :P

i use wayyyy to many smiley faces.

okay.

farewell lovelies.

alison.

heyyos choir!

I would like to remind y'all that we have less than NINE practices left till concert. less than 9 is because on the week of concert, sec2s have ROCs in malaysia, and sec3s have OBS.

so therefore, please go and learn the 2 sister act songs and Let it Shine on your own, and familiarise yourself at least with the layout of the pieces. all competition pieces to be memorised by next week, can? with dynamics and all articulation to be in, plus text. if you have any problems, you better go look for your SLs and ASLs. go ask eli, ruth, yannting.

it's the last stretch of the race, where you really need to focus and head straight for the finish line, but it doesnt just stop there with concert, but you'd still have the momentum to carry through to Tour. and I really hope that we can strive for that. sec1s and other new members, I know this is a very steep climb, and that you'd be nervous for your first ever concert with the mgchoir, but just focus now, and learn up the pieces. cause on concert day, when everyone's so high and yet nervous, you have no time to think about your notes, you just go. and after concert, you dont want to have that feeling that 'I could have done better than that". No. You would want to just give everything on stage. for a fact, you dont just give 100% in choir practice. you give 110%, so that on concert day, you have allowance for other stuff, and then you'd be at 100% during performance. but for now, focus on the pieces, because now is the time to make mistakes, and the time to fix them. We're on the sprinting lane now. all you gotta do is go for it.

so in conclusion, let's give this all we got. if we know that we can do better than this, then just go for it, and do it better. this is no time to hope that your voice would blend in with the stronger people in the section. it's the time for you to step up yourself. if everyone were to sing out, and not be afraid to sing out, think of what we could be like.

take the hint.

xDDDD
-christie-

Dear Choir,

I may not have known all of you personally, or very well, but I'd just like to say goodbye before I go. I know this is a difficult time, for both the juniors and seniors, but I feel that you guys are holding up extremely well under the pressure. It's really not easy to balance everything like you guys are doing, and even though I haven't been in the choir as long as some of the others, I'm so proud of how the choir has grown.

To the juniors - Although it's tough, you are not fighting a losing battle. Just do your best and trust in each other, and you'll accomplish your goals.

To the seniors - I knew you guys better, and I know you know what to do by now, so all I can say is to continue doing a great job in choir.

Being part of the mgchoir family really meant a lot to me, and even once I'm gone I'll still look back on my memories with much fondness. Making music with all of you will always remain one of the best experiences of my life.

Love,

Maria

Hi Choir!
I totally just realised that I forgot to put in Sh-Boom :X
So uhh here it is!
-Marian
Oh and this ISN'T the original, I think?!

Hey choirrrrrr
Here are the original songs!
1. A Teenager in Love

2. Lollipop

3. Earth Angel

Kkk hope you listen up and learn the piece well!

Reminder for next prac!

Hey Choir!

Please remember to bring these stuff by the next practice session! (weds)
1) Ticket stubs and money
2)Fundraising Cards and money
3)Choir fees

and rmb there's prac on tues morning!

-lee khim

hey choir.

random post. yayers:D

so i was reading through all these old choir blog posts from ages and ages ago, and i was rather amused.

i quote,

"late comers will be fined with jumping jacks"- liz

funny, coz we still say that. same words and everything.

kay maybe not jumping jacks.

AND

"To put things into better perspective, we have 11 practices until our concert and only 7 of them are conductor-led.- liz (again)

gahh the "to put things in perspective" thing and "only _ practices are conductor-led" thing.

it's almost as if choir presidents are given a "helpful phrases to use during rehearsal" handbook of something.

HAHA FREAKKYYYY.

well that's all.

man that was random.

okay tata.

-aly.

Hey choirrrrrrrrr here are the notices:
1. Choir fees: if you haven't paid (today was like the latest) better bring on wednesday
2. Pullovers: anyone who wants to design something for the pullover, draw it out and pass to Ellissa in 4M
3. Choir cards:Newbies remember to look for one of the teachers and pass them your money in a bag. State- number of bags sold, number left, amount of money, name and class/
4. Choir tickets: On wednesday, tell Miss Tham how many tickets you have sold and amount collected, but she will only collect stubs in groups of 5. (WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE SOLD ALL 5 BY NEXT WEEK)
Thanks!

Hi Choir!
I just found this pretty cool performance of Jaakobin, so check it out!
But Christina's solo is BETTTTTTTTER! :B
And when they do that whole ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuben leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevi juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuda thingy it's cute cos they look at each other etc. SO CHECK IT OUT!

HOLIDAYS ARE OVER

HI THERE!

The holidays are kind of almost over, not to say choir camp. I really enjoyed this year's choir camp, actually more than last year's one... Although the singing was quite intense, and we like practiced for like 6 hours. Many people kept looking at the clock. It was really fun. I actually got to interact with the new people and the juniors.

However, for the blind trail, I kept getting lost because the people in front of me kept going so fast, while the poeple at the back kept pulling me. But honestly, it felt really fun getting lost, as I could lead the people at the back at my own comfortable speed, althought I was joined back so quickly by the camp comm that were guiding us.

We learnt a lot of new things that is quite impossible to forget like FAITH, TRUST, TEAMWORK.

I'm quite sad that the camp is over, cause I enjoyed all the singing. I didn't really enjoy it this much before, as I felt that we did not use our hearts to enjoy the music that we make, and we were just singing for the ssake of singing and learning and memorising. Now for once, I actually enjoyed the music I was making.

I can't wait for the next practice, though I know it will be very intense as we are supposed to be memorising scores already. I hope all choir members will enjoy singing, and not sing because you are made to sing.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

Janice :)

heyy choir:DDDDD

GUESS WOT??

it's ave regina coelorum! and not just any ave regina coelorum. KO MATSUSHITA'S AVE REGINA COELORUM!!

you won't believe how many different ave regina coelorums there are on youtube.

anyway, hope the video helps:)

oh yeah, hope you had fun during choir camp.

it was awesome, no?

farewell

aly:)

Hey!!

Well, CHOIR CAMP 2010 IS OFFICIALLY OVER. =( It's okay!! Now you can all look forward to choir camp 2011!!! =D Yeah, all except sec 4s...hinthint, we're leaving soon, so coughFAREWELLcough...nevermind, we'll come back and join you for camp next year, kay? Only difference is that we won't sleep on the super-duper-hard MEP room floor...heheh!

I'm gonna keep this short, so just wanted to say that I hope that all of you enjoyed camp VERY MUCH. Of course, there was the good and there was the bad, but overall, I think there was more good than bad, so...SMILE!

I think that camp was a great time of fellowship, learning and growth, so personally, I am happy with the outcome of camp. Just make sure you take home whatever you've learnt, whatever it may be, and remember that choir is just as fun as you make it. This camp could have been a disaster if everyone refused to cooperate, but because of everyone's enthusiasm, we ALL had fun! Let's do the same for our practices, kay?

Well, a few take-away pointers:
1. We are better than we think. Apply all that you've learnt everytime you sing, and we'll grow into the best choir WE CAN BE.

2. Energy and attitude are the two most key things in choral singing. Musicality will take care of itself if we give off our best.

3. Yes, I know you're all waiting for me to say it, so, have FAITH, TRUST and TEAMWORK! =D

Love you all!
eli sayampanathan

"They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, declares the LORD, to deliver you." - Jeremiah 1:19

HEYYYY CHOIR!!!

HOPE THAT Y'ALL HAD AN AWESOME TIME AT CHOIR CAMP. I'm missing it already, and it's the sec3s' second-last year..... so enjoy your time while you still can.

anyway I shall do a sum-up of camp!

remember the three things that are very very important, that we learnt during the camp:

- BREATHE. ( i.e. the cup thing) you do know, of course that obviously because voice comes with breath, so for the voice/sound to be good, you have to BREATHE DEEPER. and use stomach muscles, expand stomach outwards, and be prepared before entries in the music

- ANGER. when you're angry, you'll have the kind of energy that is needed in all the pieces. stomach muscles will naturally be used. dont forget the emotional colours that we learnt during the workshop with Branco Stark, and apply it to the other pieces, not just Hodie. if it helps, do the hand movement thing. you have to really mean the punches, not just wave your hand up and down. but then again, when you're feeling "anger" in your energy, you have to add on externally and show happiness/laughter.

- PHYSICALITY/ENERGY! as vocalists, our instrument has a lot to do with how you're standing, and what you're feeling, so like, be enthu and dare to do things that look weird, but in actual fact helps with your singing. bring the life into the pieces!!

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and another thing, in the next few weeks, months, we'll have to work very very hard, so be prepared to be memorising a whole lot of scores within the next few weeks. so it's best to start memorising, like now. memorisation table will be up soon, with all the deadlines and all, so yeah.

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OH on a more helpful note, I FOUND VIDEOS!!!!!

SISTER ACT 2 - Joyful Joyful



Sister Act 1 - Hail Holy Queen



yeah so go watch and learn how to sing the songs.

lotsa craziness,
christie

HEYYYYOSSSS CHOIRRR!!!!!

hope y'all have been going through your scores and memorising them.
reminder that this week we will be having extra practices. please remember what slots you signed up for, and go for them.

I was searching youtube, and to aid those who are new to learning the scores, I found a video of a choir singing examine me. so take a look at the video, and get an idea of how the piece should sound like.

Examine me: (the piece starts at about 30seconds into the video)


hope the video's helpful to y'all.

-christie-

Hey Choir!

I've got a really important announcement to make, so please take this post seriously...

Common Tests would have ended by the time next Wednesday comes, so, please be prepared for a big change in the way we do things at choir. We really need to focus a lot more, and work as hard as we can. And this has to be done as a choir effort, not just some people working hard for the better good of the choir, k? Please always remember that personal responsibility comes before choir responsibility. That means that before the comm, conductors and teachers can try and help the choir, each and every one of us has to go home and do all our homework, learn our music and be prepared. Now, going on to our big plans...

By choir camp, we should have learnt our whole repetoire. In other words, we have 4 practices left to finish learning Kodomo, Ave Regina Coelorum, Examine Me, Hodie Christus Natus Est, Ubi Caritas, Laudate Dominum, Mian Yi, Ting Tan Qin, Doo-Wop, Hail Holy Queen, Joyful Joyful and God Be in My Head. That's 12 pieces, excluding all the other pieces the conductors have yet to give us. Also, we will have to master LonDali, Examine Me and Hodie by choir camp in preparation for the Branko Stark workshop.

As you can see, we have A LOT of work to do. HOWEVER, although this seems like a very great task, I believe that we can do it. We will be having small group practices held in the morning (6:55-7:15) and during recesses (10:20-10:40 and 11:20-11:40) on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from now onwards. It is compulsory for everyone to be at at least 2 of these practices. Please make sure that you are there. SLs will be handing out sign-up sheets soon for you to put down in black and white which practices you are committing to attend. Yes, you are more than welcome to attend more than 2, if not all of the available practices. Please note that all this is being done for your good, so that you have the chance to practice your music.

Before practice on Wednesday (3rd March), please make sure you know Examine Me, LonDali and Hodie thoroughly. This includes new-comers. If you don't know how to learn the score on your own and need help, I am in 4M (linkway, level 2). You can also look for your buddies, octet leaders, SLs, any comm member or anyone else in choir. Ms Tham Pei Wen has also kindly volunteered to help, so if you need help, you can go to her too =D

Choir, I really hope that we work together, and put in our best effort. Remember our CNY performance? It showed us that nothing is impossible for this choir. Please remember to be prepared to work VERY hard for the next 4+ months, whether or not you are going on tour. If you have any problems or worries or anything you feel you want to address, I am in 4M =D Don't worry, I'm not going to scold you even if you say that I'm asking you to do something impossible. I rather know that you think I'm asking you to do something impossible, than you suffer in silence.

Okay. Work hard, and WE CAN DO THIS!!
Love you all!
eli sayampanathan

CANTABILE 2010

Presented by the MGS (Sec) Choir

and guest choirs from CHIJ Toa Payoh and MGS Primary


Date/Time: 29th May 2010, 7:30pm

Venue: MGS Auditorium, 11 Blackmore Drive

Ticket Price: $15 (Free Seating)


Please purchase your tickets from any mgs choir member.

heyyy choir!

hope you've enjoyed the first performance of the year. it's amazing how we've come so far, within 2 days. wednesday we werent that great, but we really pulled through, and friday's performance saw this huge jump in standard. just wanna encourage y'all to continue putting in the hard work, cause we got this big hill to climb, with "cantabile" and "russia tour" at the top. xDDD. not to mention that we've now seen what we can do if we put in the effort, we could flyyyy!!! i suppose that we can fly above aeroplanes in the next few months, and continue going up till we reach orbit. or mars. or pluto. ah you know what i mean. xDDD.

just a few reminders (as usual):
- try and learn up the rest of O Virgo Benedicta
- put in solfege for Examine Me until pg4 on the score, stop at the last system of the page, where the time changes to 6/8 and it says "moderato". (F - doh)


yep i think that's it for now.

xDDD
-christie-

HEYHEYCHOIR!!!!! =D

Yes, for all new-comers, I'm sure you'll all be able to relate to what Sarah said in the previous post...choir, just wanted to say how awesomely proud I am of all of you!! The choir sounded relatively awesome (except for the bad mikingssss...), and, well, yeah...

Well, we know how much effort it took us to get here, right? Since this was the first performance of the year, our standard for this performance would probably have been 50% of our potential. So, imagine if we work as hard (or harder!!)...Cantabile WILL be the best thing humans have ever heard. =D+D=D+D=D+D

Go and look through all your scores over the 5-day weekend, start memorising whatever you can, and be ready for choir on Friday!!

Well, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR, HAPPY VALENTINES DAY, and...okay, HAPPY TOTAL DEFENCE DAY.

Enjoy!
eli sayampanathan.

spread the love...

Reflection on Today's CNY Performance

Hi all,
This is my first time posting on the blog... ...
I am supposed to post my reflections/what I think about today's CNY performance... ...
Well, I feel that everybody was great and I think that all of us have put in our best and were enthusiastic. Also, all our efforts that we put in in memorizing the scores have paid off as I think the audience did enjoy the performance and some of them were clapping along to the music too.
This performance was also a new experience for me as it was my first time performing in MGS. At first I was a bit nervous but gradually, I started feeling more at ease and even quite enjoyed singing.

I like today's performance on stage and I am sure glad that we were all able to perform on stage today and no one had problems memorizing the scores!

However, the preparation was sure intense but well, it was worth it! And I think that also without God, and our conductors who have put in effort to train us and everybody in the MG Choir who practised really really hard, this performance would not have been successful.

In general, I am really happy that we were able to put up a good show for our friends and teachers in school and show that our choir is indeed a gold-standard choir! :)

-Sarah Ng-

Hellooooo (:
So, how's life in choir, so far?
Fun, I hope. (:
Anyways.
We have to memorise 大地回春 and 新年个儿大家唱 by Monday kay?
I know how you feel.
Don't worry cause [ahem]some people[ahem] have more difficulty than people who learn Chinese. XD
(Btw, for those people mentioned above, if you don't understand anything from the scores, please, PLEASE go and ask someone who knows)
Alrighties (:
I'm done here.
BYEEE and
Good luck memorising the scores (:
Mich

Heyoo Choir!!!

Well, now that auditions are over, the choir should be more stable, so we have to start running like racehorses, k? As in, we shall start practicing to the high heavens...

Audition results have been let out, so all successful auditionees, CONGRATS!! Good job on making it into the mg choir. It would not have been easy, but then again, the mg choir journey is not an easy one either! =D But hey, generations of mg girls have done it, so you'll be just fine...

Please look through all your scores (the whole choir...not just choir of '09), cause we've got a lot to work on in the coming weeks!!

BUHBYE!!
eli sayampanathan

ps. Go sell fundraising cards if you havn't finished!!

Heyosss choir!

hope y'all have been revising your scores, cause the new people are coming in tmr!!!

so as always, a few reminders:
1. brush up on kodomo, and start memorising
2. londali should be memorised, and if you havent then the deadline is this week.
3. more focus during practices please, we got uphill work to do!

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yay my desktop can work alr, so yeah i can post more, i hope it doesnt crash again.

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To new people:
Welcome to the MG Choir!
please be reminded that the first practice for you gals is tmr,
please be at the bamboo courtyard at 2.10pm, your P.E. attire.
cause there's this thing called PT, a.k.a physical training.

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-christie-

It only takes 2 steps to sing with the

MGS CHOIR

Step 1. Attend the Choir briefing

20^th or 27^th Jan 2010

2:30-5:30pm @ LT1 (*note change in venue– was previously conference room)

You will be given a “tour” of the mg choir which will give you a better idea of what is expected of you if you decide to join us. You will also get to attend part of a choir rehearsal and you may clarify your doubts during a question and answer session.

This briefing is compulsory if you want to be part of the choir. You can sign up for the audition after the briefing.

Step 2. Audition

22^nd or 29^th Jan 2010

You will be assigned the time slots and venue when you sign up after the briefing.

Please prepare a short song (no pop songs) to sing during the audition.

Audition results will be released through email and will be put up on the choir board by 1 Feb.

Please refer to the Choir notice board outside the MEP rooms (near auditorium) or the choir blog http://mgchoir-.blogspot.com/ for more details.

“Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; make melody to our God on the lyre!”

Psalm 147:7

hey ppl!
rmb to go thru ur scores! (kodomo and londali) try to just see thru the new scores!
don't forget! newcomers are walking in to see the choir! so be in ur best behaviour k?
and lastly, pls pay $120 and ur info to ur SLs ASAP!
-lee khim!

GOSH. I love the last post. It's awesome!! I shall treat whoever did that for lunch on Wednesday. =D Yes, you get the point, choir, we have awesome conductors and teachers and a awesomely fantastic choir with such fun-loving, hyper, enthusiastic, angelic (i hope!!) members (that's you, by the way, so you BETTER agree...), so GET PEOPLE TO JOIN!!!!

For those wannabe-mgchoir-members, it's definitely worth it joining choir. As a sec 4 (LOL. scary stuff, mann...), I can honestly tell you that I'm counting down the days, VERY regretfully, to the day I have to cry. At farewell...which better be good!! cuz I really want to cry...hinthint, Yann Ting...heheh...

Yeah, choir has held memories for all of us which are never to be forgotten...I'm gonna tell you a story. NO, DON'T START SCROLLING DOWN. it's not that loooonnnggg.....right?? Ok, you know, I joined my church choir for the advent season this year, cuz I figured it may be the last year I get to do it, plus it's kindda cute being the youngest member of the choir...I was talking to the church organist cum choir director (not conductor...).Suddenly, she started talking to me about her days as a secondary school choir member...I knew she was an old mg gal, so I was like, "yeah, I know, mg choir, right??" and she started jumping with her hands over her mouth. and she's probably 50/60+ years old. and she was in church. and she was JUMPING. You see, that's the effect choir has on you, k?

Basically, in choir, we learn about awesome stuff like solfege and music history and other stuff...it's awesome, cause you can go talk about it to some other musicians, and some of them have never ever heard of it before, and then,,,,you can make them look dumb =D=D=D=D=D
Also, unlike other performing arts groups, you don't have to have any prior qualifications. All you need to be able to do is sing....and considering that you're reading this, you probably do it every day in the shower anyways...so...yeah.

In the gist of it all, choir is awesome. Your best memories in MGS will be your time spent in choir. I'm not joking. I'm waiting for me to be 20 to actually realise that, but I can tell you in advance. For those of you in choir, treasure your years left in choir. For sec 4s, treasure your days/months/hours/minutes/seconds left in choir. For those not in choir yet, join choir so you get to hear me nagging at you about all this XO.

EVERY SMART PERSON WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU SHOULD JOIN CHOIR OR REGRET FOR LIFE. BE THE SMART ONE =D

Love,
your awesome best friend,
eli. sayampanathan.

About the Choir

The MGS choir strives not just to bless the people around us with the joy of music, but also bless each and every one of our members by inculcating several essential skills.

In(ter)dependence, diligence and a sense of shared responsibility are instilled into each chorister as music is learnt and made. Our conductors and teachers reinforce the important of making music as a group, taking great carae to establish self-discipline in every member because "a choir is only as strong as its weaker member".

By mastering vocal skill and techniques taught by our conductors and by growing as a choir, the MGS choir hopes to be of service to the school, the community and our Heavenly Father with the voices he has blessed us with.

Practices are twice a week, Wednesday and Friday, 2.30 - 5.30pm.

Our Conductors

Jennifer Tham

Jennifer is best known as the conductor of the Singapore Youth Choir (now the SYC Ensemble Singers) an ensemble she has led since 1986. A composer by training, she believes that the student chorister is the future of choral music in Singapore, and enjoys infecting young students with her own enthusiasm for music and the expressive medium of voice.

In addition to her work in schools, Jennifer has served on several artistic committees for the International Federation of Choral Music and serves on the Board, chairing a working group for the development of the Asia Pacific choral network. She also represents Singapore in the Choir Olympic Council and has been on the jury at the World Choir Games and at competitions in China, Germany, Indonesia, Japan and Korea. She has taught choir conducting at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and has given workshops and courses to conductors in Indonesia and Japan.

Jennifer is a recipient of the inaugural Young Artist (Music) Award given by the National Arts Council and is a member of their arts resource panel.

Albert Tay

Albert believes strongly in cultivating high levels of disciplined musicianship, musical in(ter)dependence while having fun making music. Alberts choirs have won distinctions locally and internationally. He also believes in creating an appreciation by music written by living composers. Albert serves the SYC Ensemble Singers as Conducting Assistant.

Albert was selected to be an active participant in the conductors' masterclass organized by the International Federation for Choral Music, representing the Asia South Pacific region in the 7th World Symposium for Choral Music held in Kyoto, Japan. Apart from Theodora Pavlovitch (Bulgaria), he has also worked with established conducting teachers such as Karl Turunen (Finland), Alberto Grau (Venezuela) and Gary Graden (Sweden).

Albert majored in voice and studied vocal conducting with Jennifer Tham and orchestral conducting with Dr Robert Casteels at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, graduating with a Diploma in Music with Distinctions and BA (Hons) from the University of Wales (UK). Albert is a recipient of the Georgette Chen Scholarship and Arts Bursary, both awarded by the National Arts Council (Singapore) and the NAFA Scholarship for his diploma and degree studies.

Teachers-In-Charge

Tham Pei Wen

tham_pei_wen@moe.edu.sg

Angela Ng

angela_ng_suat_theng@moe.edu.sg

Cherie Heng

ong_su_ling_cherie@moe.edu.sg

welcome back to school, choir!!!
hope y'all have fun in your new classes and such.
anyway, as you may have noticed in the practice today, we need to speed up the learning of the pieces. soon enough, the competition scores will come in one big load, and we'll need to learn all of them by may (cause of the pre-tour concert).

please please please please please make an effort to go on this russia trip. from seniors, I heard that these trips are really worth going for, and that they really learn a lot. after all, how often do you sing in these international competitions, with top choirs from all over the world (maybe) ? xDD so please try to come for the trip. plus the more we sell the fundraising stuff, the more the subsidy will be, so we'll pay less if we sell more stuff.

few reminders:
- people go and get the name of your mortal from eli
- hand up your forms for the russia trip with the cheque
- revise scores!

oh and to those curious sec1s who read the blog (not sure if they do)
join choir!!!!!

xDDD
-christie-

HEY Choir!!! =D

Okays. Yes, as Christie said, come and get the name of your mortal from me. Before choir ends next Wednesday....and don't complain if you don't get one of your close friends, cause the whole point of the angel-mortal thing is to help you make friends with other people in choir who you may not know as well...and make sure you pamper your mortal, and send her LOADS of letters, k? If you find you're not receiving anything from your angel, come tell me, and I'll go and find your angel, k?

Also remember to practice all your scores...make full use of the rest of your holidays!!! Ms Tham and Mr Tay said that next year will be a realllllyyyy packed year, so if you want to have time to do anything other than choir stuff, you should learn your music ASAP. Remember, we have 18 pieces to go...plus all the other music we're gonna have to learn. Don't worry...we'll try and make choir as pleasant an experience as possible...

Remember to go and sell your fundraising stuff, k? If you have people still willing to buy more, you can go buy some off other choir members, or go see the teachers or something. Also publicise that we may have more cards printed shortly...yes, we're gonna have to sell those.

kk.
love you all!!
see you next wed!
eli sayampanathan

KODOMO!!!

hey guys!! this is my 1st time posting something here!
because of ellissa, i have to scan this out for u guys!! (i have only 1 monitor, and the scanner attached to the CPU is the one that has some problems with starting up the com...)
hope u ppl read it!!
(i think u can click on it to enlarge..)

[:leekhim:]

*have a gd yr ahead!!! (:

hi choir!

so y'all know that next year will be a very busy year, and hence I think we have to step it up. we got a longggg way to go. so we gotta concentrate!!! esp with new people coming in next year. must set good example okay.

ok just some reminders:
1. first practice of the year!!! 6 jan, wednesday, after school (obviously. xD)
2. go and get the name of your mortal from eli
3. practise your scores

LOL i'm quite high now.
yeah so anyway,
the list of people in which section will be posted soon, i think.
I think that's it for now.

lotsa craziness,
christie

HEY CHOIR!!

kk....Partae's over, people...hope you all enjoyed yourselves! =D Things were not as organised as I would have prefered them to be, but people were scolding me for trying to get things too organised, so....yeah...I hope that none of you were dying to go home or anything, cuz that's not the point of a party, is it??

Yeah, don't forget that the year's events are not over, k? We still have practice on the 30th Dec, so make sure you turn up for that. Go through all your scores and stuff like that, cause it won't be very nice for the conductors if we have to start from scratch all over again, right? Yeah, let's do them proud!! =D

kk. tatafornow!
eli sayampanathan

HI CHOIR!
I'm here to post something utterly random but totally cool.
Like, I'm sure you've all heard Jason Derulo's "Whatcha Say" right!
SOOOOOOOOOO
Like some people say he ripped off Imogen Heap's "Hide And Seek" but whatever.
Anyway!
I found this awesome singing group/choir/whatever who sang it!
AND IT'S LIKE AMAZING.
SO WATCH IT!
Cool or WHAT!
Did you hear the dude singing the high note? And we can all learn something from this totally-not-frivolous-post/video. Note their dynamics! And blending! And they all watch the conductor etc.
And yes, they're all dudes.
Let's not be too blown away by that awesomeawesomeawesome performance and remember Ellissa's equally long post.
Love,
Marian