Would you like to start next year with something wonderful? 🎶 Launching on 5 January 2026, join Choir of the Earth & The Gesualdo Six for this one-of-a-kind choral course to learn William Byrd’s Mass For Five Voices. Discover more at choiroftheearth.com and join us to create vocal magic✨ #ChoralSky

A beautiful listen for you to round off the week. 🎶 Here’s our global choir, Choir of the Earth, performing the Kyrie from Franz Schubert’s Mass in A Flat, accompanied by some magical visuals. youtu.be/DFxg1eugohU?... Sit back, relax, and enjoy. ✨ #ChoralSky

We absolutely love Christmas at @choiroftheearth.com and putting together the digital advent calendar for our members this year has been huge fun! Lots of treats still to come, from the sublime to the ridiculous (which is pretty much our unofficial motto anyway!) 🎄🎅🏻🦌🔔❄️🎶❤️

My daughter left her Spotify account logged in on our TV while she did her DofE expedition back in April, so I did what any self-respecting dad would do. Payoff finally came today.

Just another reason to make 2026 the year you join a choir!🎶 And for those of us who are "too online", @choiroftheearth.com is fantastic - all the same benefits but no going out in the cold, no social anxiety, and you can sing your heart out in your PJs! #choralsky www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

These living scores are an amazing way to experience the great choral works - and a fantastic learning tool.

Tis the season to Soundslice! 🎶 It's a great resource for independent learning & rehearsal & there's 40% off ALL our Soundslices until December 7, including: • Mozart's Requiem • Handel's Messiah • Haydn's Nelson Mass • Bach Magnificat • The Wedding at Cana www.soundslice.com/users/ChoirO...

...from 5 January 2026, we’ll be launching an unmissable 7 week online choral course to learn Byrd Mass For Five Voices. We can’t wait to help you explore and perform it in depth, with The Gesualdo Six - one of the world’s leading Renaissance vocal ensembles. Join us? 🎶 #Choralsky (2 of 2)

We’ve something utterly sublime to share today. Take a listen to some of Sanctus & Benedictus from William Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices performed by the incredible Gesualdo Six. And, we are so very excited to be collaborating with them... choiroftheearth.com/courses/byrd... (1 of 2)

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Announcing an unmissable collaboration with one the world’s leading Renaissance vocal ensembles! Launching on Monday 5 January, join Choir of the Earth & The Gesualdo Six for this one-of-a-kind choral course to learn & record William Byrd’s Mass For Five Voices: choiroftheearth.com/courses/byrd...

We're counting down to the festive season & our current course The Wedding at Cana is the gift that keeps on giving! The choir is learning Movement 7 this week & whether we're listening with the music or studying the detail with just the voice parts, there are yet more stunning moments 🎶 #choralsky

Finished watching Leonard and Hungry Paul this evening and it was such a beautifully told story of friendship, love, grief, family and quirkiness, told with warmth and humour (narrated by Julia Roberts no less!). Watch if you can: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

No Santa “Ho ho ho’s” for us just yet, but we are YO ho ho-ing our way into the week with a fun warm up! 🎶 Our Musical Director Ben, lives in Bristol... the home of the pirate voice (Blackbeard was from there you know!) & as Ben says, it’s amazing what the voice can do when you distract the brain

Shout out to Asda Radio 🪩🎶🛒

“You drive, I’m tired.”

I hate this narrative that someone genuinely lovely could never win off their own bat. Richard is nice, he's funny, he's a real gentleman and he's genuine. He deserved to win and owes zero thanks to that horrid narcissist and her minions #bbuk #bbll

I'm sorry but how is it ok for Caroline to kiss Richard on the mouth without consent - someone she has insulted and bullied - and especially someone who has said they are asexual? Imagine the sexes were reversed. Just horrible. #bbuk #bbll

Want to learn more about the world of #music? 🎶 Our online 'Around Sound' lectures are a friendly and flexible way to explore it all. From The Evolution of Classical Music to a toolkit every singer should have, head here to look around… choirlibrary.com/around-sound... #ChoralSky #OnlineLearning

As well as learning and singing incredible works, Choir of the Earth is about friendship. Vanessa is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in this clip she shares what it means to her to sing with people from all across the world, online and at the in-person events we create 🎶 #choralsky #choir #sing

Can't bring myself to vote to save either of these vapid, self-absorbed, twerk-obssessed dullards, sorry. Can we have a "both" option? #bbuk #bbll

Grief is weird. Something as mundane as the smell of vegetable soup drifting into the street from someone's house can suddenly make you miss someone so intensely your heart aches.

Really enjoyed @choiroftheearth.com teaching by @benenglandbem.bsky.social this week, love the challenge of learning something brand new to me #singing

Our new course, 'The Wedding at Cana' by Patrick Hawes launches at 17:00 GMT today. Everyone is welcome to join the launch here: youtu.be/xHplYpPyYuw Patrick has been chatting about this incredible work & is excited at the prospect of it being brought to life in this special World Premiere recording

Like singing in a choir? Check out the launch of @choiroftheearth.com 's fab new course where we will be the first choir to ever record Patrick Hawes' The Wedding At Cana - and a special new revised version at that! We're live on YouTube at 17:00 GMT - join us here: youtu.be/xHplYpPyYuw

Engaging with Monday from a safe distance... #MondayMotivation 📷 @aintright.bsky.social

The people of Ireland have spoken, and I, for one, couldn't be more delighted. Yet again, we have elected a humanitarian with the utmost integrity. Today, I'm proud to be Irish. 🇮🇪 #SpéirGorm #Áras2025

Does anyone else have a constant earworm of 'Marcus Went Out Today' swirling around their brain? 🎶 #bbuk

And how could I forget the harp?! 🥰

Patrick Hawes beautiful music + stunning guide tracks and solos from Fieri Consort + unsurpassable teaching from @benenglandbem.bsky.social + the amazing community of @choiroftheearth.com + being the first choir to ever record the work = the recipe for a cracking choral course! Bring on Tuesday! 🎉🎶

So touched at the thought that our amazing Choir's voices from all around the world are filling this wonderful space in a museum dedicated to a charity that meant so much to Handel. Really quite special!

Some beautiful Brahms to brighten your week! We've taken the movement ‘Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen’ (known in English as How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place) from our remarkable new recording of Ein Deutsches Requiem, and set it to some stunning visuals. Experience it here: youtu.be/p8uD8m201Dc

Excellent photo placement from @theguardian.com here.

The @goodlawproject.bsky.social and @nionwomen.bsky.social are running a petition for cis woman to sign who are fed up of politicians and the media spouting transphobia "in your name" and "to protect you". If you're interested in signing, it's here: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not... 🏳️‍⚧️

It will be interesting to see how this policy develops. Vocational training has been unfairly derided for too long, meanwhile schemes like apprenticeships are such an underrated pathway to gain both qualifications and practical experience. University isn't for everyone. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

(listening to my body) What's that, body? An entire wedge of blue cheese? Are you sure?

Absolutely brilliant interview from @somersetcool.bsky.social on @besomerset.bsky.social with forensic pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd. If you watch TV shows about crime and murder and find yourself saying "Well actually..." a lot, this is the guy for you! www.besomerset.com/post/dr-rich...

Our Brahms German Requiem has met with incredible reaction. Our collaboration with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus is nothing short of remarkable. Here's Ben explaining how we created this landmark recording & you can enjoy the performance in full, here www.youtube.com/live/-sIQjqY...

It's always a true honour for @choiroftheearth.com to work with the Bergen Philharmonic, and this collaborative performance of Brahms' Requiem is just superb! At 18:30 BST @benenglandbem.bsky.social will conduct the recording premiere live. It's open to all so do join us! 📹🎶 youtu.be/-sIQjqYtvUY

The UK just doesn't have enough care workers for an aging population and the work is very tough. Those who come here to take up these jobs - often away from their homes and families - are rewarded with poor pay and conditions. They deserve our thanks, not abuse. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Hello, 4am existential crisis. Right on time, I see.

Obsessed with #TheDivineComedy Rainy Sunday Afternoon. The heartbreak of The Last Time I Saw the Old Man; the childhood magic of All the Pretty Lights (my Christmas song for this year); the wit of Down The Rabbit Hole & Mar-a-Lago By The Sea; and the sheer feels of Invisible Thread. A superb album!

Some days there’s just not enough coffee

I just had a neighbor ask "how are you." The social negotiation required to produce a concise, non-committal answer has depleted my energy for the next two fiscal quarters.

Seemingly we've entered the solid month of the year where every time I see a conker on the ground some inner Pavlovian response sparks an earworm of Come Ye Thankful People Come on a loop 🍂🌰🎶

We are so excited and honoured to be working with Patrick to record his stunning work, The Wedding At Cana. If you're a choral singer looking for something new, join us from 28 Oct to 18 Dec for this unique opportunity, plus top-notch teaching and a lot of fun! ❤️🎶

My brain: Needs to use GPS when I’m driving to remember how to get to a place I’ve previously driven to multiple times before. Also my brain: Remembers every single lyric to the 1990 hit Ice Ice Baby when it comes on the radio while I’m driving to the place it can’t remember how to get to.

When people ask me if I have any good stories from when I used to interview rock stars for a living my mind often goes a bit blank, and to be honest a lot of it was quite ordinary and unremarkable, but on the other hand there is this.