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Kinder Youth Choir,
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 administerd
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 Youth Choir consists of the boys with changed voices
and some of the older girls from the Kinder Children's
Choir. It was established primarily to give the changed
voices an opportunity to keep on singing with the Kinder
Children's Choirs. They were the only youth choral organisation
to take part in the 60th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings
and Battle of Normandy in France in 2004, this being so
successful that it was followed up by other invitations
to return to Normandy in 2005 and 2007. It is the first
time that this choir has entered "Choir of the Year".
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