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Kinder Junior Singers,
High Peak
The Kinder Children's Choirs of the High Peak have been
one of the major success stories of the High Peak since
they were formed in 1991 by former opera singer, Joyce
Ellis.
The choirs involve over 100 children and young people
from the ages of 6-18 from all parts of this highly rural
national park and its boundaries, and are administered
by a registered charitable trust. Children are not precluded
for reasons of cost, neither is there a voice test or
audition required to join. Frequently, children with no
apparent ability to pitch, progress through the training
groups to find their singing voices and become successful
choristers.
The choirs which consist of both Boys' and Girls' Training
Groups, Kinder Girls' Choir, Kinder Boys' Choir, Kinder
Junior Singers, Kinder Children's Choir and Kinder Youth
Choir, have all gained a high profile in competitions,
prestigious concerts and in a series of appearances on
BBC and Granada TV. All the choirs have their own identity
but also perform in a combined form.
Kinder Junior Singers evolved out of Kinder Girls' Choir
and Kinder Boys' Choir in 2002, and have been category
finalists in the last three competitions of "Choir
of the Year". This last season they performed Edward
Gregson's Missa Brevis to much acclaim at Gregson's 60th
Birthday Concert at the Royal Northern College of Music
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