National Youth Choirs of Great Britain

The latest product of our ongoing relationship with Delphian Records has hit the office. The disc has a range of Mike's own arrangements of world music-inspired pieces, including the first commercial recording of Hamba Lulu.

Copies can be ordered from the office at £11.

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We have posted out audition results to all applicants. 2009 was a record year with well over 600 applicants! Thank you all for coming to sing for us. The 2010 season looks to be a great one.

Thirty members of the Main Choir performed Handel's Messiah as part of the BBC Proms. They were joined by Northern Sinfonia and members of six other youth choirs from around Great Britain at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday. A full report will be in the next issue of the NYC newsletter, Resound. The Guardian, Independent and Telegraph all gave five star reviews - Click here

Choral Legend and NYCGB Guest Conductor Gillian Dibden has been awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Gillian, who has won awards at National and International level with her various choirs has been conducting for 46 years and this Easter directed the NYCGB Boys' Choir course. Many congratulations go to her from all of us at NYCGB!

This year NYCGB launched its Cambiata Voices to train boys who are experiencing voice change. Their inaugural performance took place at the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham in April together with performances from the other Junior choirs. This marked an important step in the expansion of NYCGB as the Junior Choirs continue to flourish. 

NYMOs are the National Youth Music Organisations and represent the highest quality in youth music-making in Great Britain. Taking place on 11th July, the day will consist of concerts, workshops, improvisation sessions and creative projects and is the first ever gathering of all these groups at one event.

Finding an appropriate companion piece to Tallis’s extraordinary 40-part Motet is no easy task. As Gabriel Jackson points out in his notes to this disc, the Tallis was neither the first nor the last piece of unaccompanied choral music to be written in 40 parts...

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The long awaited NYC 25th Anniversary Gala Concert DVD is now available.  At the price of £15 you get full concert footage and a documentary about the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain.  Please contact the office for more details.

Gabriel Jackson’s 40-part motet, Sanctum est verum lumen, for all its passing allusions to works ancient and modern, is like nothing I’ve heard before. That feeling of first light, of a soundworld previously unimagined, is magnified by the massed voices of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. It’s a matter of ‘unfading splendour,’ as the work’s text puts it. The motto stands throughout this disc, the contents of which span six centuries of so-called polychoral composition. There’s nothing austere or tranquil about the singing here: God is being praised, not feared by these glorious performers.