Does the choir have a preference for a specific musical genre?
Individual singers in the choirs have their own preferences but there’s no one overriding genre of choice. We all respect each other’s tastes and singers appreciate they won’t necessarily love every piece that we sing and are pleased to try new things -it works really well. Also I see that you have experimented with vocal percussion. Was that fun? Yes! The beat-box project spun out of doing an arrangement of Britney Spears’ ‘Hit me baby one more time’ which was great fun but we didn’t know much about vocal percussion at that point. We then worked towards a concert at the Purcell Room with Tobias Hug from the Swingle Singers and MC Zani where the singers were taught to make an accurate percussive sound without a mic. We want to explore the entire spectrum of the sound beyond the English choral tradition -including those that have never been made before! The choir supports a charity each year such as the Stroke Association and the NSPCC for example. Who are you supporting at the moment?
