Author: Andrew Burdett

Youth Choir depart for Finland and Estonia tour

Taplow Youth Choir have set off for their 2024 tour, with performances scheduled in Helsinki, Tartu, and Tallinn.

Taplow Youth Choir members managed an early alarm call, to catch the pre-dawn coach to the airport ahead of their tour of Finland and Estonia.

Over the next week, the choir will enjoy spending time socially together, as well as the opportunity to sing in a range of wonderful venues. Scheduled performances include:

Our 2024 souvenir tour programme, including running-orders for the four concerts, can be downloaded here.

We are thrilled to be able to share good wishes for the choir, from our supporters:

Wishing the brilliant Taplow Youth Choir a wonderful and successful tour. You are a special group of committed people, bursting with talent and fabulous musicianship. Treasure the music making and the friendship.

Neil Ferris
Chorus Director, BBC Symphony Chorus

Ascot Brass has the privilege of sharing the stage with the Taplow Youth Choir at our annual Christmas concert. Their enthusiasm for singing and the quality of training shines through their performance. All at Ascot Brass wish the Choir well for their tour.

Ian Jeffery
Band Manager, Ascot Brass

Welcome to 2023’s new members

We are pleased to reveal the names of new members, who have successfully auditioned for the Taplow Girls’ and Youth Choirs.

Welcome to the following new members who, after successful auditions, will be joining in September:

Taplow Girls’ Choir: Imogen, Radhika, Hope B., Lizzie, Isabella, Orla, Hope J.

Taplow Youth Choir: Ellie, Sacha, Polly, Bee, Mimi, Millie, Daisy, Jamie, Anike, Eve, Charlotte, Tom, Kieran

There are places available in Girls’ Choir – Year 5 – Year 9.

There are places available in Youth Choir for sopranos, tenors and basses. 

For more information, contact Gillian Dibden: 07799 413746 / 01628 914882.

TGC ‘Lift Thine Eyes’ virtual recording

Taplow Girls’ Choir give a ‘virtual choir’ performance of Mendelssohn’s ‘Lift Thine Eyes’, from ‘Elijah’.

Taplow Girls’ Choir members come together in a ‘virtual choir’ recording of ‘Lift Thine Eyes’. 

This piece, from Felix Mendelssohn’s oratorio ‘Elijah’, is traditionally performed by a trio of singers – but here is sung in three-part harmony by members of our Girls’ Choir, with an average age of just 13.

Click here to watch and share on Facebook.

See here for more virtual choir recordings from Taplow Choirs.

Taplow Choirs alumni: united remotely in lockdown

Taplow Choirs alumni delighted Gillian Dibden with an unexpected gift: a ‘virtual choir’ performance of Charles Villiers Stanford’s ‘Heraclitus’.

In the depths of lockdown, former members of Taplow Youth Choir delighted their erstwhile leader, Gillian Dibden, with an unexpected gift: a ‘virtual choir’ video, with alumni singing Charles Villiers Stanford’s setting of Heraclitus.

The brainchild of Ben de Souza, who sang with the Youth Choir between 2010 and 2015, the project took less than a fortnight to coordinate.

 

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