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The National Youth Choirs of Great Britain (NYCGB) is the name given to a family of choirs for young singers in the United Kingdom. It comprises a total of eight choirs and in the 2009/2010 season almost 800 young people between the ages of 8 and 23 participated in the choirs.
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About the choirs
The organisation was founded in 1983 by Michael Brewer OBE and Carl Browning, and in the same year gave its inaugural concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Originally set up as a single choir made up of 100 of the best young singers in the UK, NYCGB now comprises an educational structure which includes three Junior Choirs (NYJC), a choir for boys with changing voices (Cambiata), two Training Choirs (NYTC), the National Youth Choir (NYC) itself and the graduate chamber choir, Laudibus.
Entry to the junior choirs, training choirs and main choir is by direct audition, with most successful applicants (depending on age and ability) being invited to join the either the Junior or Training Choirs before advancing, again by audition, into the training or main choirs. Membership of Laudibus is exclusively by audition from the main choir.
NYCGB have collaborated with a wide range of musicians, been involved in various recordings and performed on tours as well as at many venues within the UK. NYCGB performed with George Shearing and the King's Singers at the Barbican Centre, and again with the King's Singers for their 25th anniversary and the NYC's 21st anniversary. They have also worked with the National Youth Orchestra and other national youth music organisations. The National Youth Choir performed on the recording of Karl Jenkins's The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace and will perform a concert at the Royal Festival Hall in October 2010 to celebrate 10 years since the recording of the CD. Future collaborations include working with the National Youth Jazz Collective and with drum and bass star, Goldie. NYCGB also performed at Twickenham Stadium for the Rugby Football Union England internationals and Cardiff's Millennium Stadium for the 2006 FA Cup Final.
NYCGB have also toured internationally and have visited New Zealand, Australia, USA, Singapore, Samoa, Rarotonga and South Africa. In summer 2006 NYCGB visited Eastern Europe[1]
Recordings
Mike Brewer's World Tour (2009) Delphian Records
Scotland at Night: Choral settings of Choral Poetry (2009) Delphian Records
Sactum est verum lumen: Multi-Part Music for Choir (2008) Delphian Records
Vaughan Williams: A Cappella Choral Works (2008) Delphian Records
Heinrich Schütz - Die vögel unter dem Himmel (2008) Delphian Records
Song of Songs (2007) Delphian Records
Giles Swayne - Convocation (2006) Delphian Records
Various - All in the April Evening (2006) Hyperion Records
Richard Allain - When I'm Gone (2004) Delphian Records
Karl Jenkins - The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace (2001) Virgin Records
Wood/Pearsall - Madrigals and Partsongs (1999) Priory Records
Humphrey Clucas - Crucifixus: The Choral Music of Humphrey Clucas (1998) Upbeat Recordings
Rainier/Routh/Rawsthorn - British Choral Music (1996) Redcliffe Recordings
Various - Twentieth Century British Choral Classics (1994) IMP ClassicsNotable former members
- Rich Batsford
- Stephen Connolly of the King's Singers
- Joanna Goldsmith of the Swingle Singers
- Chris Neale of the Swingle Singers
- Lucy Bailey of the Swingle Singers
- Ben Thapa of G4 (band)
- Henrik Wager of the Flying Pickets
- Karen England of Opera Babes
- Laura Wright of All Angels
- John Daszak - Opera Singer
- Jon Robyns - West End star of Les Misérables and Avenue Q
References
- ^ Resound, Winter 2006 - Official newsletter of the NYCGB
External links
Categories:- British choirs
- National choirs
- Youth choirs
- Musical groups established in 1983
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