 | Choros Amici Choir of the MillenniumBBC TV & Sainsbury's Choir of the Year 2000-2002 |
Image Gallery - Quotations | Since its first rehearsal in a multi-storey carpark Choros Amici (the 'choir of friends') has been a very special and individual choir. The choir has built an international reputation in its ten years of singing - for the quality of the music, the vitality and communication it brings to performance and the warmth of its collective personality - entertaining audiences of seventy to more than seventy thousand, indoors and outdoors, from Hyde Park with Pavarotti (July 2001) to city squares around Europe. The singers, all friends of the musical director, Chris Mallinson, come from all over England - Chorley to Chichester, Leeds to London and all places in between - and meet for occasional rehearsal weekends to work hard, laugh hard and play hard. Amici is, above all, a family with the shared goal of having a damned good time whilst performing music to an exceptional standard. Choros Amici has become more and more successful in national and international festivals, sweeping the board at the inaugural Peterborough Choral Competition in 1999, winning major international classes in France in 1998 and 2000, and achieving the ultimate UK choral accolade when crowned as BBC Television's 'Choir of the Year at a packed Royal Albert Hall in December 2000. The choir has recently been invited to participate in the highly prestigious European Broadcasting Union 'Let the Peoples Sing' competition. Concerts and recitals have been made for BBC radio and television, most recently a BBC special edition of Songs of Praise from Castle Howard, along with CD recordings of the choir doing what it does best - singing live to entertain and inspire others to enjoy and participate in the joys of choral music. Whether in a medieval town square, church, concert hall, an outdoor arena or an underground champagne cave, the Choros Amici 'family' mission remains the same:- To sing music to the highest possible standard, to entertain and inspire audiences, and above all… to have fun whilst doing it! | |