2024 Choral Workshop with Levowan XII

Levowan XII

The 2nd chamber choir workshop lead by Award Winning Conductor Marcus Alleyne &amp; Levowan XII. Improve your technique, musicianship and more

Stoke Methodist Church

I﻿f your preferred section is full please sign up for the waitlist. There is only one waitlist so please use your name and section eg Jill Smith AltoLevowan XII is thrilled to be delivering our second Choral Workshop. This workshop is designed for anyone who has an interest in choral music, singing as part of a choir and for those looking to develop their choral techniques or just try something new and exciting. During the course of the day attendees will enjoy:<ul><li>working with a professional choral director and accompanist</li><li>advanced choral techniques</li><li>aspects of vocal health and wellbeing</li><li>general choral development</li><li>music, refreshments and lunch will be provided </li><li>the opportunity to perform with Levowan XII at the end of the workshop in the stunning St Peter's Wyndham Square. Friends, family and members of the public welcome to join us from 3:45pm.</li></ul>In 2015 Director and Conductor Marcus Alleyne found he was spending the majority of his time working with choirs, orchestras and other musical ensembles and very little time maintaining his own musicality. Spending some 20 years as an active chorister he was keen to return to singing himself, and it was from this passion for vocal and choral excellence that Levowan XII was born. In an attempt to offer and maintain a high level of choral chamber music, across the South West of England, all members of Levowan XII are so by invitation only. With only 12 voices, Marcus thought it important that every member had the ability to sight-sing, to be adaptable in tone and, more importantly, to have the ability to blend with other voices. It took about one year to really settle into singing with some early changes to the set up, but in 2016 the choir managed to establish itself remarkably well. For a tiny choir we deliver a vast repertoire spanning some 500 years and covering almost any genre, including major works with piano, organ or chamber orchestra accompaniment, unaccompanied pieces of music and we have the ability to sing in a number of languages including Latin, French, German, Italian and Russian. We have featured on local television and radio and have also made appearances for the BBC and ITV. We have firm links with both British and international composers and arrangers and have premiered several pieces of their work here in the UK. We have also been fortunate enough to perform alongside the Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines.