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TAPLOW CHOIR WIN YOUTH CHOIR OF THE YEAR
ALL SMILES: 2008 - Taplow Youth Choir, crowned the best young choir in the UK at the national competition held in Liverpool.
In 2008, Taplow Youth Choir were crowned the best youth choir in the UK after triumphing in a BBC competition. They wowed judges to win the youth section at the prestigious BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year competition.
Gillian was `elated' with the choir's performance, She said: "They were fantastic. For me the feeling of taking young people to that level is so great. They will never look back and they can go on to achieve great things."
The mixed choir, which draws most of its members from Maidenhead, Slough and Windsor, boasts a long list of achievements despite only being set up in September 2006.
Tours have included Amsterdam (2007), Estonia (2009), where the choir competed in the International Choral Competition and were awarded 2nd place in the Youth category and Catalonia (2011) where the choir sang to large audiences, received standing ovations and enjoyed wonderful venues, highlights being the Monastery Church at Monserrat and Barcelona Cathedral. The choir are thrilled to be singing in a programme of Elijah at the BBC Proms season in the Royal Albert Hall on 28th August, with the Gabrieli Consort and Players.
THE MIXED VOICE YOUTH CHOIR
Taplow Choirs is pleased to have a mixed voice Youth Choir which started in September 2006 and meets on alternate Saturdays from 4.30 pm - 7.00 pm. There are approximately 65 members - sopranos, altos, tenors and basses, and entry is by audition. The Choir already has considerable achievements and won the Outstanding Award at the National Festival of Music for Youth in 2008. It rates amongst the top youth choirs in the country and were Choir of the Year, Youth category winners 2008. The choir has also sung in the Schools Prom at the RAH.
THE CHOIR HAS THE FOLLOWING PERFORMANCES IN THE DIARY FOR 2011
Sunday 27th November at 7.30pm
St Nicolas Church, Taplow. In aid of “Let the children live and sing” (Providing food, safety and opportunities for street children in Colombia.
Box office: Taplow Rectory, Maidenhead, SL6 0ET or Tel: 01628 661182. Tickets £10 (£8 students under 16)
Saturday 10th December at 7.30pm
Windsor Methodist Church, SL4 3HH. This event is helping to raise funds for Thames Valley Adventure Playground (for children and adults with all types of special need).
Tickets £10 (£8 students under 16)
Box Office: 01628 628051 or email: donations@tvap.co.uk
Saturday 3rd March 2012 at 7.30pm
All Saints Church, Gerrards Cross, SL9 8PZ
Taplow Girls’ and Youth Choirs.
Saturday 17th March 2012
Taplow Youth Choir (with Hertfordshire County Youth Choir, and Borlase “Cantorum”) in St George’s Chapel, Windsor,.
The Armed Man – Karl Jenkins. Part of the Windsor Festival Spring weekend.
Gabrieli Consort & Players
In October 2010 Gabrieli Consort & Players and Paul McCreesh launched at their London home Christ Church, Spitalfields the Gabrieli Young Singers’ Scheme. Working with Chetham’s School of Music, the North East Youth Chorale, Taplow Youth Choir and Ulster Youth Choir, the scheme aims to get young people not only to sing, but to engage with choral repertoire and to perform it to the highest possible standard. Gabrieli website here: www.gabrieli.com
Paul McCreesh (Gabrieli director) and the choir directors and singers tell us more about the scheme, with footage from the performance and rehearsals of Handel’s Solomon (choruses), filmed at the Gabrieli Young Singers’ Scheme launch event. http://www.vimeo.com/19412707