For Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir founded in 2009, see Virtual Choir.
A virtual choir, online choir or home choir is a choir whose members do not meet physically but who work together online from separate places. Some choirs just sing for the joy of the shared experience, while others record their parts alone and send their digital recordings, sometimes including video, to be collated into a choral performance. There may be a series of rehearsals which singers can watch online, and their performance recordings may be made while watching a video of the conductor, and in some cases listening to a backing track, to ensure unanimity of timing. The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 inspired a large growth in the number of virtual choirs, although the idea was not new.
Online choirs can make singing accessible to would-be choristers who are unable to joining 'in-person' or 'face-to-face' choirs due to issues such as disability, caring responsibilities, geographical restrictions, lack of local opportunities, cost, or a lack of confidence to perform or audition in front of others. For example those who use hearing aids may find it difficult to take part in a 'same-room' choir due to interference from multiple sources of sound, but could benefit from the more direct digital sound of an online choir rehearsal and/or the text-based chat offered by some online choirs.[1]
create the VirtualChoir. Whitacre began with a test run of Sleep, then Lux Aurumque in 2009 and then Sleep again in 2010. Whitacre's VirtualChoir performance...
A virtualchoir, online choir or home choir is a choir whose members do not meet physically but who work together online from separate places. Some choirs...
work with Pub Choir. During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic a virtualchoir named Couch Choir was created as an online equivalent of Pub Choir. In July 2020...
her virtual concert Infinite Disco. As of February 2020, HGC had 150 members of diverse religious backgrounds. Based in London, House Gospel Choir was...
April 23, 1996) is an American classical pianist, composer, actor, and virtualchoir conductor. Sheckler was born in Rochester, MN and grew up in Charles...
A choir (/ˈkwaɪər/ KWIRE; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically...
mixed choir a cappella. In 2005, he wrote an arrangement for wind ensemble. The choral version became known through Whitacre's project VirtualChoir in 2009...
accomplished by Eric Whitacre in 2013, where he edited together a "VirtualChoir" of 8,409 audio tracks from 5,905 people from 101 countries. Perhaps...
performing remotely to create a virtualChoir. The resulting effect of all the voices illustrated a genuine virtual collective empathy merging the artist...
choirs in aid of their own charity work. The choirs that took part in the recording with McManus include: Anstee Bridge Choir Cystic Fibrosis Virtual...
Belica (2 October 2020). "VIRTUALCHOIR OF JOY DEBUTS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30". Chorus America. Retrieved 27 September 2021. "VIRTUALCHOIR OF JOY DEBUTS FRIDAY...
Hannah J (April 3, 2020). "Choir practice on Skype, anyone? -- podcasts of the week; Twenty Thousand Hertz's VirtualChoir episode looks at a group of...
new 'virtualchoir' TV show". Daily Mirror. 14 June 2020. "Curtis Brown Literary and Talent Agency: Gareth Malone". Retrieved 1 May 2011. "Choir: Gareth...
the Elite, a light novel series written by Shōgo Kinugasa Choir of the Earth, a virtualchoir Côté Coate (disambiguation) Coefficients of Thermal Expansion...
Arroyo collaborated with classical pianist Harrison Sheckler to create a virtualchoir recording of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame". Current and former players...
pandemic, Joel took part in "The Blessing - Aotearoa/New Zealand", a virtualchoir featuring over 200 New Zealanders performing "The Blessing". Performers...
introduced by former Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and were backed by a virtualchoir of more than twenty female singers. Expelled from the US in 1971 because...
Syntheway Virtual Musical Instruments. The first version was released in 2005. This software can be used to create natural and synthetic choirs, vocal textures...
not be as good as an experienced choir director can deliver, but noted how it worked to give a great virtualchoir. He noted at the time of his review...
music for several projects of the Self Isolation Choir (later Choir of the Earth), a virtualchoir established during the COVID-19 pandemic. He conducted...
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