UK Choir Festival – St Albans

21st and 22nd October Feedback

Ben Sawyer (Saturday)

One Voice

• Superb diction and bright warm tone
• Pitching dropped a little

Kingdom Come

• Diction crisp and clear, good sense of ownership of the song and its meaning
• Couple of pitching issues
• Men’s voices not always blended

Greg Beardsell (Saturday)

One Voice

• Accurate articulation, good dynamic contrast
• Rich harmonic texture
• Lift corners and mouths and brighten eyes. It needs to look fun.

Kingdom Come

• Good corporate sound. Accurate and confident.
• Good connection with the song

Karen Gibson (Saturday)

One Voice

• Great start beautifully pitched and blended.
• Choir could work on articulation which would help blend and pitch

Kingdom Come

• Love the contemporary feel. Very good attempt.
• Altos slightly pitchy, entrances a little timid.

David Lowe (Sunday)

One Voice

• Very attentive to conductor. Committed.
• Watch establishing pitch at outset. Try not to ‘hit and hold’ long notes.

Kingdom Come

• Clear message
• Excellent awkward rhythms, let the rhythm relax a little
• Work on a resonant ‘oo’ vowel for accompaniment

Ula Weber (Sunday)

One Voice

• Lovely Soprano unison opening
• Strong harmony singing
• Tight rhythms and good clear endings
• Sops don’t push in the high sections
• Men listen carefully to sops to come in in tune

Kingdom Come

• Beautifully sung with feeling
• Great diction
• Nice use of unison to harmony
• You clearly love singing together

Mark De-Lisser (Sunday)

One Voice

• Nice balanced sound harmonically
• Good volume from the outnumbered men
• Where is the story in the faces?
• “Ring” was very shrill from the sops.

Kingdom Come

• Lovely safe sound that could do with more body and a greater sense of physicality

Pete Churchill (Sunday)

OneVoice

• Unison sound is great
• Good choice of song
• Good sense of drama and shape
• Work on pitching, explore song line by line and identify points where things sleep
• In serious danger of sounding very good.

Kingdom Come

• Lovely opening, diction good
• Good sense of storytelling
• These songs aren’t easy to pull off and you do a great job
• Lovely vibe, great material.
• Committed singing, worth the extra work