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Cathedral Choristers
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- Girl Choristers meet 5:10 - 6:00 PM Fridays for choir practice.
- Boy Choristers meet 4:00 - 4:50 PM Wedesdays for choir practice.
- Musicianship classes piano, individual singing and band instrument lessons are by arrangement. Currently:
- Musicianship I 5:10 - 6:00 PM Thursday
- Musicianship II 5:05 - 5:50 PM Wednesday
- Musicianship III 6:00 - 6:50 PM Wednesday
- Choristers sings for special occasions and at 10:00 AM Mass every other Sunday of the academic year. Warm-up 9:15 AM. Normally, new singers will not commence public performance until at least the start of the next academic year in order to focus on developing proper vocal technique and music reading skills.
- Open to all Youth aged 9 yo - 17 yo. It is not restricted to Catholics.
- Membership is by audition only. Ideal candidates are committed, focused, with a good sense of humor (that is sometimes quirky in-line with their high intelligence), effortlessly maintain above average academic achievement, who love music and are clearly ahead of their classmates whether that be in orchestra, band, choir or general music studies. Please contact the cathedral office or email John Webber, the Director of Cathedral Music Ministries, [email protected] to arrange an audition.
- Musicianship training is based on integrating the Royal School of Church Music's Voice for life program - a graded sequence of workbook based instruction designed to take a musically gifted singer over the course of 6-10 years to professional level together withthe Australian Music Examination Board Theory Syllabus and a Kodaly approach to sight singing training.
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