Choirs
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Autumn Term 2024
7th September - 7th December
half-term (no choir) on 26th October and 2nd November
Concert: Sunday 8 December - 15.30-17.15 - St Margaret's Church, Oxford, OX2 6RX - rehearsals 12.30-15.00
The choirs meet on Saturday mornings during school term
Musical Mayhem (3 mths - 4 yrs) - Class 1 - 10.15-11.05
Musical Mayhem (3 mths- 4 yrs) - Class 2 - 11.15-12.05
Prep 1 (reception - yr 1) 09.10-10.00
Prep 2 (yrs 2 - 3) 10.10-11.40
Junior Choir (Girls & Boys yrs 4 - 6/7) 09.10-11.00
Senior Boys (low voices) 10.30-12.30
Senior Girls (yrs 6/7 up, including gap year students) 10.30-12.30
Musical Mayhem
Musical Mayhem is a lively sing-along music class for babies and toddlers from 3 months to four years, with puppets, percussion games & parachute play. There are two sessions, at 10.15am & 11.15am. Drinks & biscuits included.
Booking links:
10.15am Booking Link
11.15am Booking Link
For more information, please email Musical Mayhem teacher Monica Nelson at monica@musicalmayhemuk.co.uk
Prep Choirs
Our Prep Choirs encourage a love of music and singing and develop early musicianship through fun warm ups, singing games and song. Taught by Hannah Rhodes and Lucia Boué, we enjoy singing part songs, rounds and songs from a diverse range of genres and composers. Prep 1 is for children in Reception and Year 1 and Prep 2 is for children in Year 2 and 3. We do introduce notation and teach music theory although all our songs are taught by ear.
Boys' Choir
Our Boy's Choir is directed by Colin Ritter Danskin, and provide musical and vocal training for boys with changed (broken) voices who enjoy singing a wide repertoire. Singers are encouraged to enjoy music and develop their potential in a friendly atmosphere, with sessions including work on ear-training and aural skills, as well as singing from written notation. Voice training methods are the same as those of the girls' choir.
The choirs meet in the Anna Haxworth Music Building at Cherwell School north site.
Junior Choir
Our "Junior Choir" is for girls and boys in years 4 and above, to develop musicianship skills and a love of singing. Girls move into the Senior Choir "Oxford Girls' Choir" when they are confident to do so, normally at year 6 or 7, and boys move into the Boys' Choir when their voices change.
Oxford Girls' Choir was formed by Richard Vendome in 1984, and was the first of its kind in England to develop girls' singing as a musical medium in its own right, and not just as a substitute for the adult or the boy's voice.
Several former members of both the girls' and boys' choirs have gone on to become professional singers or instrumentalists.
Membership is by informal audition. Our singers start their musical journey with a probationary term after one or two free taster sessions. Please contact the Administrator (admin@oxfordyouthchoirs.org.uk) or the Musical Director (director@oxfordyouthchoirs.org.uk) if you have any questions.