Bury Bach Choir blog

Bury Bach Choir singers – James the tenor Whether you’re working, studying or enjoying the freedom of retirement, and whatever you sing – soprano, alto, tenor or bass – come and join us as our new term starts on 4 September. This post features the third of three interviews with current members of the choir, to give you a bit of encouragement! James, a tenor, is one of the Choir’s newest members, joining in January 2019.   He is a GP. James lived in Bury through his primary school years, then went away to school and university.   There wasn’t a job here for him after that so he lived in London for 35 years, singing in small choirs.   He says he’d been back in Bury for about a year and hadn’t been singing, so it was time!   He was determined, though, not just to join the first choir he came across and took time to find the right one.   ‘One of the things that attracted me to the Bury Bach Choir was the opportunity to sing big stuff, whi...

Bury Bach Choir singers – Tim the tenor Whether you’re working, studying or enjoying the freedom of retirement, and whatever you sing – soprano, alto, tenor or bass – come and join us as our new term starts on 4 September. This post features the second of three interviews with current members of the choir, to give you a bit of encouragement! Tim is a tenor and has been in the choir for 7 years.   He works full time as a financial advisor. ‘When I first joined a choir I hadn’t sung for a long time, I could barely read music and had no idea if I was doing the right thing.   I’m not musically trained, I used to be in the church choir when I was a lad until my voice broke, and spent a large part of my adult life thinking I couldn’t sing because in my head I was still trying to reach the treble notes.   Then I joined a choir and discovered I was a tenor!’ What would you say to someone who was thinking of joining us but didn’t quite feel confident? ...

Bury Bach Choir singers – James the bass Whether you’re working, studying or enjoying the freedom of retirement, and whatever you sing – soprano, alto, tenor or bass – come and join us as our new term starts on 4 September. This post features the first of three interviews with current members of the choir, to give you a bit of encouragement! James is a bass and has been in the choir since January 2017.   He works full time as a funeral director. James doesn’t read music, although, he says, ‘I can understand it a bit more now.   It was a bit scary to start with; I came into my first rehearsal, was handed the music and Philip said we’d start with Zadok the Priest.   I thought that’s brilliant, I know that piece, so then I picked it up’.  ‘I learn most of it by ear and try to sit between two experienced basses and listen, I can learn a lot from them.  I’ve got all the CDs, I listen to it in the car and sing along.' Is it because h...

It’s time to sing! If you love choral music, if you love singing, if you’ve just moved to Suffolk and want to continue singing with a good choir, if you’ve never sung in a choir before but enjoy music, or can read music, or any combination of these, your time is now! Whether you’re working, studying or enjoying the freedom of retirement, and whatever you sing – soprano, alto, tenor or bass – come and join us as our new term starts on 4 September. The Bury Bach Choir will start rehearsals each week for our November concert on Wednesday 4 September, at King Edward VI School in Bury St Edmunds.   We’ll be singing Brahms’ German Requiem, and the choral suite from Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man , which is new to the choir.   Later in the year we will sing Verdi’s coruscating Requiem , and Handel’s Messiah . Over the next few days on this blog, we’ll be featuring interviews with three singers.   They are all men, because although we want singers of all voice par...