Amabile Girls' Choir performed at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle on Sunday 4th March in a regional round of the Choir of the Year Competition.  The girls performed extremely well and were named as one of the three Choirs of the Day.  Now we will wait to hear if the choir has been put through to the semi-finals which will take place in Manchester Bridgewater Hall in October.

A second group of Piccolo Amabile Choristers has started up in Lancaster!  They are meeting each Tuesday afternoon at the Gregson Centre and are still accepting new members.  If you have a girl between the ages of 4 and 9 and would like more information about this group, please email or phone Piccolo Musical Director: Mel Rowe (piccolo@amabile.co.uk or 01524 781920).

Poco Amabile recently competed in the first round of the 2010 BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year competition and was named Children's Choir of the Day in Manchester. This means that the choir will advance to the Selection Round of the competition, with the possibility of advancing to the semi-finals in Birmingham in November (semi-finalists will be selected from recordings of the first round). Poco Amabile will find out the results of the Selection Round sometime during the summer. They sang beautifully and made us all very proud! Congratulations girls and Miss Rachel!!
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Amabile Choirs has been awarded a grant to commission Melody Rowe to write a song cycle for girls' choir, through the BBC Performing Arts Fund 2009 Choral Ambition scheme. This project was one of the 98 projects (14 commissions, 84 other projects), out of 350 submissions, chosen to receive funding. Amabile Girls' Choir will be premiering the four songs in the cycle at its June concerts - at the Sedbergh Festival (18th June) and in its joint concert with the Westmorland Youth Orchestra (26th June). To see more details about the grant and the other choirs awarded, go to the BBC web site.
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