Vocal Blog

by Florian Städtler and Aaron Jensen. Aaron Jensen, artistic director of SING! – Toronto Vocal Arts Festival which ends today after four days of vocal extravaganca passed on Florian’s questions to some of the participants and organizers of the event. The answers show that SING! is one more fantastic celebration of the international vocal music [...]

via Jouni Kannisto, Club for Five Finnish vocal band Club For Five is making some radio history in Finland. Since April 8th, the biggest commercial radio station “Radio Suomipop” bas been using all vocal theme music and soundscape by Club For Five in its morning program. The show “Aamulypsy” (trans. Morning Milking) is by far [...]

by Jeff Meshel, originally posted on www.jmeshel.com (a wonderful music blog!) The Swingle Singers – ‘Sinfonia from Partita No. 2 in C Minor’ I had the great pleasure last week of hanging out with The Swingle Singers. They were coming to our little corner of the globe for a couple of concerts, and graciously agreed [...]

by Florian Städtler, Vocal Blog Alberto Hera is the unsung (not really,…sorry for that pun) hero of Italian a cappella. It’s a scandal that I haven’t featured him on Vocal Blog yet. This is going to happen soon and if it’ll be in the brandnew “A Cappella Twinterviews”, his a cappella twin would probably be [...]

by Florian Städtler, Vocal Blog The interviews is a standard format for journalists and bloggers. If done well, an interview can give the reader an interesting perspective on the personality, life and works of the interviewee. However, very often interviews become a series of standard questions like “Where did this all start?”, “What makes you [...]

via Festival für Vokalmusik Leipzig (GER), from the festival programme book 2012 Leipzig’s a cappella festival is a true work of art – for many years this 10-days event has presented almost every vocal star you can imagine from Bobby McFerrin to The Real Group and The King’s Singers. Hosted by Germany’s pride in classical [...]

by Stefan Rheidt, originally posted in August 2012 August 15th, 2012 Wednesday. ICE 104 on the way to Frankfurt/Main Airport. I’m on my way to Copenhagen, where I have been studying singing for one year now. Stefan Rheidt, 52 years old, choir director – yes, that’s me – I have gone back to school again. [...]

by Jeff Meshel, originally posted on www.jmeshel.com on March 17th, 2013   It’s Passover vacation in Israel all week long – the flowers are blooming, and the roads are clogged with hundreds of thousands of vacationers out in search of a change of scenery, a breath of fresh air, a new sort of holiday activity. [...]

by Tine Fris, Postyr Project (DK) Rehearsal Methods for Individual Singers Taking voice lessons can be an expensive pleasure. In this blog, I would like to share some tips and tricks for you to make the most of the time in between lessons, so you will improve more and faster from lesson to lesson and [...]

by Florian Städtler, Vocal Blog [>> German version below <<] From now on, Vocal Blog readers in different countries or regions will be given the opportunity to win concert tickets for a cappella concerts of international top acts. So here’s your first opportunity: Win 2 x 2 tickets for the concert of The Real Group [...]

via Festival für Vokalmusik Leipzig (GER), 2012 Leipzig’s a cappella festival is a true work of art – for many years this 10-days event has presented almost every vocal star you can imagine from Bobby McFerrin to The Real Group and The King’s Singers. Hosted by Germany’s pride in classical a cappella, amarcord, the 2013 [...]

by Florian Städtler (Vocal Blog) and Dave Bernstein (Acatribe) Uploaded by blogging buddies Dave Bernstein and Florian Städtler, this list is the result of successful social media crowdsourcing. Thanks for sharing your favourite a cappella events: Tine Fris, Jeanine Rondas, Michele Manzotti, Christine Liu, Michal Hromcik, Sandra Hylla, Christophe Hui-Bon Hoa and Casey Gallas. Extra special thanks [...]

by Florian Städtler, Vocal Blog founder My fellow blogger 1.0 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once cleverly remarked: „If I had had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.“ An anti-rambling manifesto, cast in granite.     So for this blog post I have set myself the goal of keeping it very brief – [...]

by Florian Städtler, Vocal Jog evangelist Those of you who are new to Vocal Blog or have not been to an international a cappella festival (yet) might think it’s a typo. No, it isn’t: Besides the Vocal Blog (your favourite online vocal music magazine) there is the Vocal JOG. What the FORK is this? It [...]

by Florian Städtler, Vocal Blog on tour (#VBontour) Travelling abroad is a wonderful thing. But we all know these terrible hours before we actually leave. Packing your bags last-minute, checking your bus, train and flight connections and of course: Trying to get as much done on your real world or virtual desk as the clock [...]