The information session will be on Sunday 30 May, 11.30am-12.30pm.
I'm looking for children aged 7-10 years. In exchange for singing on Sunday mornings during term, choir members will receive free music tuition.
The choir will be using the Voice for Life training scheme. It is an excellent basis for a choral program, and can be used effectively with both children and adults.
This will constitute a new development within the parish, which has had a small adult choir for a long time. The group is fairly small, and natural attrition is looming fast. I'm very fortunate that most of the existing choir members support the venture, not least because running these things as a one-man-band can be a perilous business.
It's important to do something that is not already available in the area. There are plenty of community choirs that cater to adults within the immediate neighborhood, but nothing outside schools for children without traveling out of the area. I'm hoping some of the children already in the parish will join up, and that there will be a few from outside the immediate parish community.
So, dear reader, if you know anyone in the area with children aged 7 to 10 years (or even up to 14 years), the letter to send them is below the jump!
Dear ____________________,
I am writing to tell you about a new initiative in the Anglican Parish of Jika Jika, to be based at All Saints, Preston.
Following the recent appointment of Kieran Crichton, our Director of Music, it has been decided to start a choir for children at All Saints. This exciting initiative is aimed at children from the age of 7 years, and offers the opportunity for them to develop their literacy and musical skills. Singing in a choir offers many advantages: improved self-discipline, enhanced self-esteem through an achievement-based training program, learning how to present oneself well in public, and teamwork skills, are just a few of the benefits that flow to children in well-run choir programs. Above all, children in the choir will be given the opportunity to sing some of the finest sacred music in the context for which it was written.
The choir will offer the internationally-renowned Voice for Life training scheme, developed by the Royal School of Church Music. As a chorister at All Saints, your child will learn how to sing and read music through a progressive training scheme that offers them the best opportunity to flourish.
Unlike many other choral programs offered for children, there is no charge for the choir at All Saints. As a church choir, there is a well-structured commitment of time each week during the school term. This choir will include both boys and girls.
You and your son/daughter are warmly invited to an information session at All Saints (corner Murray Road & High Street, Preston) on Sunday 30 May, 11.30am-12.30pm. This will include a brief introduction to the choir, an opportunity for you to ask questions, and some group singing.
If you would like to register to attend the information session, please contact the parish office on 9471 9191, or you can email Kieran: music@jikajika.com
I look forward to seeing you on 30 May.
Yours sincerely,
Fr James Grant
Team Vicar.
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