Wednesday, November 29, 2006 Local choir groups to hold concert
MUSIC enthusiasts from different parish, school, and community choirs have organized to form the Cebu Chamber Singers.
It aims at giving Cebu a name in terms of choral music.
The group was organized last July 10 and its founder is trainer-conductor, Dennis Gregory A. Sugarol, a multi-awarded musician who has extensively performed and conducted choral groups here and abroad.
Its co-founder, Rey Roa, a United States-based musician is also known for his choral groups while he was still a student and when became a music teacher.
Its first activity after the organization of the group was the workshop where the basics of choral singing, vocal exercises, breathing techniques, phrasing, and musical dynamics, among others, were taken up.
Rehearsals
The initial activities encouraged the participants that the group scheduled rehearsals twice a week.
The 50-member group, comprising of doctors, teachers and students, sings at Pedro Calungsod Shrine in Cebu City and is committed to promote religious, folk and popular music.
The Cebu Chamber Singers renders service music to the church, the school and the community.
Just four months old, the Cebu Chamber Singers staged a concert recently at the Carmelites Monastery Chapel in Mabolo, Cebu City.
It has been invited to do a repeat performance with the Cebu Chamber Orchesta on Nov. 30 for the 35th Episcopal Anniversary and closing of Year of Jubilees of Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal at the Cebu Grand Convention Center.
Tickets are at P1,000 each, inclusive of dinner.
For inquiries, one may call 0920-5005228, 346-5279 or 234-4918.
