Author: Siobhan Jones

Dear All We’re delighted to say Neavan Lobban has accepted our invitation to join Sheen Gate Choir as our new Director of Music from September this year. For those who weren’t there last Tuesday, Neavan swept the board with votes cast for the second-round candidates and won almost unanimously against the excellent candidates from the first round, Anthony Chater and…… Read more →

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Dear All Thank you to everyone who was able to come to the auditions last week. On Tuesday 17/6 we will start at 7:45 as before and will see three candidates, having added a third session ​to accommodate Ed Bonner who was ill last week. I hope everyone is OK with the late finish. It will be a long night…… Read more →

Dear All  Please arrive on time tomorrow (19:45 latest) to help set up so we are all ready to go when Ed Bonner arrives. He will need to start right on 20:00. Bring your Brahms scores! Once both auditions are completed and candidates departed, we will have chance to discuss what we think about each of them and the committee…… Read more →

Dear All Well done everyone in the choir on a fantastic concert last night. It all came together for the final performance – Penny was absolutely delighted!! It’s a great compliment that Richmond Orchestra enjoy working with us so much and really are keen to do so again (we’ll have a think about choir positioning!). Of course, a special bravo…… Read more →

Well done for an excellent last rehearsal on Tuesday. Penny was really pleased with our efforts overall (we all know which bits we need to look at ahead of Saturday!). It’s going to sound fantastic – it always does on concert day. Just remember: KEEP EYES ON PENNY! Schedule for the day is below. Concert dress will now be either…… Read more →

Hi All Rehearsal on Sat 7th June will now start half an hour earlier than suggested in earlier post (which I have now amended to avoid confusion). New times below: Concert day schedule – AT ALL SAINTS, E Sheen: 2:00-2:30: Set up for anyone who can make it 2:30–3:15pm: Gershwin (including the 5 minutes time at the end for choir to get…… Read more →

Dear All  We ran through movements III, IV, V & VI last week. Two key takeaways were: We will run through as much of the music as possible (Brahms & Fauré) during our last rehearsal (3/6). It’s worth making a note of any shaky bits to go over ahead of the concert day. Focus this week will obviously be on the concert…… Read more →

Dear All  Penny was really pleased with how we were sounding on Tuesday – well done to everyone for all your very apparent efforts! Next week (27/5) we will run through the remaining movements (see below) then plan to run through the whole thing on 3rd June. We’ve had a really positive response to our advert for a new Music…… Read more →

Dear All As mentioned last week, we will be adding an extra rehearsal to the schedule – 27th May (half term week I know but come along anyone who can make it!) – so we have 3 reherasals remaining. It’s really sounding very good now, we just need to familiarise ourselves with the trickier bits where it’s harder to keep…… Read more →