Join the Junior Choirs
How do I join?
Please contact our director Susan about becoming a member on 01924 404737or junior.choirs@huddersfieldchoral.com
Auditions for the Junior Choirs are very simple and make sure the voice is ready for the choir.
There are vacancies in both choir sections at present and members are taken into the choir sections at all times of year.
Voice training is given as part of the weekly rehearsals for the Choirs. Each choir is directed by Susan Wilkinson a professional musician and vocal coach, who helps choir members to develop their voice to a high standard for their age and ability. The Choirs are given the opportunity to sing in a wide range of styles. Songs from musical theatre, gospel, pop, folk and classical styles are learned to give members a broad experience of vocal music. The Choirs sing to a mixture of accompaniments including backing tracks, brass bands, piano and orchestra.
Choir Members are given the opportunity to perform as soloists with the Choirs.
What are the choirs?
The choirs rehearse and sing in three sections. They also perform altogether as one choir. The choir sections include the Youth Choir for ages 13 to 21+ and the Young Voices for ages 7 to 12. They ensure that young people from around age seven years upwards can learn to sing well and develop their vocal talents through performing in different venues and in front of different audiences each year. They have become well known and always receive good revues at concerts and music festivals
There is also Vocalise that is currently made up of older members of the Young Voices and members of the Youth Choir, who have the skills to progress further in Choral Singing.
All Choirs rehearse each Wednesday evening of the school terms at Almondbury Infant and Nursery School, Longcroft, Almondbury, Huddersfield.
Young Voices from 5.45 to 7.30 pm for ages 7 to 12 years
Vocalise from 7.30 to 8.15 pm
Youth Choir from 8.00 to 9.30 pm for ages 13 to 21+ years
Where we rehearse
Directions to Almondbury C of E Infant and Nursery School
Longcroft – Almondbury – Huddersfield – HD5 8XWFrom the
centre of Huddersfield (at the KINGSGATE CENTRE roundabout near Sainsbury’s) Take the
Wakefield Road A629
Stay in
the right hand lane here because you turn right at the second set of traffic
lights – up Somerset Road.
The hill
rises until you come to the village of Almondbury (about 1 ½ miles).
Drive
through the village over the bumps and you will find the Parish Church on your
right on the corner.
Drive
right - (round the church) up Westgate (there are some very old buildings on
this corner on the left).
Drive up
this road for about a third of a mile and you will turn right on
‘Longcroft’.
The
Infant school is almost immediately on the left up a small rise. Do not drive
into the school grounds please.
Susan M. Wilkinson, Junior Choirs' Trainer and Musical Director.
Susan M. Wilkinson studied initially under Professor Shackleton Pollard in Halifax before graduating in Pianoforte and Voice at the Royal Manchester College of Music (now the Royal Northern).
Susan has extensive knowledge about teaching music to young people and knowing how they learn. A former Ofsted Inspector, Teacher Trainer, and Music Adviser for a local authority she has spent many years in education with adults and pupils younger than age 5 to Post-16 and beyond.