{"id":55,"date":"2015-12-10T13:21:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T13:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/188.166.168.151\/2015\/12\/10\/interview-with-godwine-choir\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T12:22:44","slug":"interview-with-godwine-choir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/encoremusicians.com\/blog\/interview-with-godwine-choir\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Godwine Choir"},"content":{"rendered":"

We sat down with Edward Hughes<\/a>, conductor and co-founder of the Godwine Choir<\/a> to hear about their upcoming Christmas concert and what it takes to build a choir from scratch.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Godwine Choir began singing together in April last year. What was it that motivated you to found the group?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Godwine came into existence over a conversation with a few friends in the pub. We\u2019d just been singing Elgar\u2019s Dream of Gerontius<\/em> in the Royal Albert Hall with a choir of over 200 and we agreed that, although large-scale chorus singing can provide an amazing experience, we missed the intimate chamber choir singing which had formed such an important part of our lives at university.<\/p>\n

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Aren’t there enough choirs in London already?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We wanted to sing in a young choir (roughly aged between twenty and thirty) and perform lesser known repertoire but we found that none really matched these criteria. After emailing round our contact lists we discovered that there were many other graduates living in London who felt the same way, so we took the plunge and founded Godwine!<\/p>\n

How did it develop?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since our first concert of English madrigals, the group has grown from around 20 to 45 singers<\/a>. We\u2019re now able to choose which 30 or so singers we\u2019d like for each concert which is a real luxury. We felt like we\u2019d really ‘made it’ when we were asked to sing the premiere of carol by Roderick Williams for the Financial Times charity concert!<\/p>\n