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exciting new musical opportunity for children aged 8 to 13.
This site includes details about the choir, the organisations who have helped to create it, and how to join in the fun !
The Chorister Outreach Programme is a national government-funded scheme designed to encourage and enable cathedrals to use their musical resources to promote singing among children in primary schools. It is part of the national Sing-up programme, led by the government’s Singing Ambassador Howard Goodall, which aims to achieve Singing School status for every primary school by the year 2012.
In Devon, the project is run as a collaboration between Exeter Cathedral and the Devon County Council Music Service. It is also supported by the Royal School of Church Music, Devon Area, and the Benedictine Community at Buckfast Abbey. The programme aims to instil and develop the joy of singing among children in primary schools, by offering specialist teaching input, continuing support and high-quality performance opportunities. It also aims to raise levels of access, achievement and aspiration, and to encourage and develop collaborative projects for singing for both pupils and staff.
Following a highly successful pilot with four Exeter schools in the Spring of 2007, the project was fully launched in the Autumn Term of 2007. In 2007/8, 19 Devon primary schools took part in the programme, involving over 700 children. In 2008/9, 20 schools participated. Alongside the direct input in primary schools, the Devon County Junior Choir provides further opportunities for children who enjoy singing to work together and perform.
Since the choir began in September 2007, it has performed at 7 Outreach concerts in Exeter Cathedral , Buckfast Abbey and St Andrew's Church, Plymouth. It opened the Exeter Festival in June 2008 and has given its own concerts as part of the Exeter Festivals of 2008 and 2009. In November 2008, DCJC participated in a joint concert with Exeter Philharmonic Choir and Exeter Festival Chorus in which it gave the first performance of the choir's commissioned piece, 'A Sequence for Devon,' by Andrew Millington, the Director of Music at Exeter Cathedral. On 20th December 2008, DCJC sang at 'A Christmas Celebration' in Exeter Cathedral in aid of Positive Action South West with Will Young, Christopher Timothy and Judi Spiers.
During 2009, the Devon County Junior Choir has given a joint concert with Cornwall Junior Choir in Truro Cathedral in May, a lunchtime concert as part of the Budleigh Salterton Festival in July and participated in a concert for the charity Barnardos in Exeter Cathedral in October. It ended the year with two spectacular events: the choir sang with Hayley Westenra on her UK Tour when she visited Exeter Cathedral in early December and then joined with Exeter Philharmonic Choir in its two annual Carol Concerts in mid December, again in Exeter Cathedral.
Future engagements in 2010 include three Outreach Concerts, a lunchtime concert as part of the Exeter Festival on 26th June in the Chapter House and performing with James Gilchrist in Britten's St Nicolas in Budleigh Salterton in July 2010.
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This site includes details about the choir, the organisations who have helped to create it, and how to join in the fun !
The Chorister Outreach Programme is a national government-funded scheme designed to encourage and enable cathedrals to use their musical resources to promote singing among children in primary schools. It is part of the national Sing-up programme, led by the government’s Singing Ambassador Howard Goodall, which aims to achieve Singing School status for every primary school by the year 2012.
In Devon, the project is run as a collaboration between Exeter Cathedral and the Devon County Council Music Service. It is also supported by the Royal School of Church Music, Devon Area, and the Benedictine Community at Buckfast Abbey. The programme aims to instil and develop the joy of singing among children in primary schools, by offering specialist teaching input, continuing support and high-quality performance opportunities. It also aims to raise levels of access, achievement and aspiration, and to encourage and develop collaborative projects for singing for both pupils and staff.
Following a highly successful pilot with four Exeter schools in the Spring of 2007, the project was fully launched in the Autumn Term of 2007. In 2007/8, 19 Devon primary schools took part in the programme, involving over 700 children. In 2008/9, 20 schools participated. Alongside the direct input in primary schools, the Devon County Junior Choir provides further opportunities for children who enjoy singing to work together and perform.
Since the choir began in September 2007, it has performed at 7 Outreach concerts in Exeter Cathedral , Buckfast Abbey and St Andrew's Church, Plymouth. It opened the Exeter Festival in June 2008 and has given its own concerts as part of the Exeter Festivals of 2008 and 2009. In November 2008, DCJC participated in a joint concert with Exeter Philharmonic Choir and Exeter Festival Chorus in which it gave the first performance of the choir's commissioned piece, 'A Sequence for Devon,' by Andrew Millington, the Director of Music at Exeter Cathedral. On 20th December 2008, DCJC sang at 'A Christmas Celebration' in Exeter Cathedral in aid of Positive Action South West with Will Young, Christopher Timothy and Judi Spiers.
During 2009, the Devon County Junior Choir has given a joint concert with Cornwall Junior Choir in Truro Cathedral in May, a lunchtime concert as part of the Budleigh Salterton Festival in July and participated in a concert for the charity Barnardos in Exeter Cathedral in October. It ended the year with two spectacular events: the choir sang with Hayley Westenra on her UK Tour when she visited Exeter Cathedral in early December and then joined with Exeter Philharmonic Choir in its two annual Carol Concerts in mid December, again in Exeter Cathedral.
Future engagements in 2010 include three Outreach Concerts, a lunchtime concert as part of the Exeter Festival on 26th June in the Chapter House and performing with James Gilchrist in Britten's St Nicolas in Budleigh Salterton in July 2010.
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