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NMPAT Community Choir

Northamptonshire Music and Performing Arts Trust’s Community Choir: The first community group run by NMPAT.

Welcome to the Northamptonshire Music and Performing Arts Trust’s Community Choir: the first community group run by NMPAT, for people who simply love to sing and want to improve their skills, whilst performing a wide range of styles, from choral classics to songs from the shows.

The choir is non-auditioned and welcomes members who do not read music as well as others who do. It is led by Adrian Taylor and accompanied by Adam Hollingshurst. The choir is open to all those beyond school age and there will be a programme of performances.

While the Community Choir is not able to meet in person, new and existing members are invited to take part in the Community Choir session, open to adults only, as part of the NMPAT Virtual Centre.

NMPATVC is held on Saturday mornings between 9.30-12.30 via Zoom. Community Choir takes place at 11.05 and the full timetable is available here: VC Spring timetable

Please contact VC@NMPAT.co.uk for more information or register your attendance here.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing
J. M. Barrie

Rehearsal details

Come join us by turning up at a rehearsal, we would be delighted to see you.

Where

Malcolm Arnold Academy
Trinity Avenue
Northampton, NN2 6JW

When

Tuesday evenings 7.15pm to 9pm

Details

The director is Adrian Taylor and the accompanist is Adam Hollingshurst.

Subscription details

£40 per term for a 10 week term payable in advance.
Termly payment to be made through the ParentPay Shop.
Please bring a copy of your ParentPay receipt to the first rehearsal to collect your music.
Please consider Gift Aiding your subscription to increase the value to the charity and reduce the need to increase fees in the future. You can download a Gift Aid declaration form and bring it to the rehearsal.
Gift Aid Declaration

Autumn Term

Via NMPAT Virtual Centre

Spring Term

Via NMPAT Virtual Centre

Summer Term

Dates to be confirmed

"All children should have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument"

Coronavirus and NMPAT

7th April 2021

We can confirm that the Kettering Road Music and Arts Centre will reopen to visitors, subject to our COVID safe modifications, from Monday 12th April. Individual lessons can recommence and rehearsals for County Groups which continued online last term, will be able to start face-to-face.

Government advice for Out Of School Settings means that we will still be employing 2m distancing with bubbles limited to 15 students at a time, so there will still be an online element to our rehearsals. We will begin the planning process for each of the groups now and send you information about our intentions as soon as possible. For groups that were not rehearsing last term, please assume that these will not be restarting immediately, unless you hear differently from you group director.

To keep Kettering Road Music and Arts Centre COVID secure, we will be maintaining our one-way system and ask all visitors to wear masks in the corridors. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer any waiting areas for parents.

We look forward to seeing all our students at Kettering Road or in school as soon as we are able.

Peter Smalley, Chief Executive

NMPAT Community Choir

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing