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Nikki Chilton
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Northern Irish elder millennial ☘️ General Manager of Choir of the Earth & Choir of the Earth Library | Co-Founder of Earth Choir Academy 🎶❤️

So sing while you have time
Let the sun shine
Down from above
And fill you with songs of love
~ Neil Hannon 🎶
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Would you like to start next year with something wonderful? 🎶
Launching on 5 January 2026, join Choir of the Earth & The Gesualdo Six for this one-of-a-kind choral course to learn William Byrd’s Mass For Five Voices. Discover more at choiroftheearth.com and join us to create vocal magic✨
#ChoralSky
December 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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A beautiful listen for you to round off the week. 🎶

Here’s our global choir, Choir of the Earth, performing the Kyrie from Franz Schubert’s Mass in A Flat, accompanied by some magical visuals.

youtu.be/DFxg1eugohU?...

Sit back, relax, and enjoy. ✨

#ChoralSky
Kyrie from Franz Schubert’s Mass in A Flat | performed by Choir of the Earth
YouTube video by Radio Choral
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December 5, 2025 at 8:23 AM
We absolutely love Christmas at @choiroftheearth.com and putting together the digital advent calendar for our members this year has been huge fun! Lots of treats still to come, from the sublime to the ridiculous (which is pretty much our unofficial motto anyway!) 🎄🎅🏻🦌🔔❄️🎶❤️
Over the festive season we've got lots of treats in store for our Choir of the Earth members.🎄🎶 Here's a peek at what we'll be getting up to & if you're not already part of our wonderful global choir, why not join us? 2025 has been fantastic & we've got so many special things on the way in 2026! ✨
December 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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My daughter left her Spotify account logged in on our TV while she did her DofE expedition back in April, so I did what any self-respecting dad would do. Payoff finally came today.
December 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Just another reason to make 2026 the year you join a choir!🎶 And for those of us who are "too online", @choiroftheearth.com is fantastic - all the same benefits but no going out in the cold, no social anxiety, and you can sing your heart out in your PJs! #choralsky
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
Why singing is surprisingly good for your health
From boosting the brain to reducing pain, joining others in song can bring some wide-ranging benefits.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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These living scores are an amazing way to experience the great choral works - and a fantastic learning tool.
To discover more about Soundslice, and how it can help you master singing wonderful works, check out this Soundslice walkthrough with our Musical Director @benenglandbem.bsky.social :

youtu.be/BDrcWJowrk0?...

#ChoralSky
Soundslice Walkthrough with Ben England BEM
YouTube video by Choir of the Earth
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December 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Tis the season to Soundslice! 🎶 It's a great resource for independent learning & rehearsal & there's 40% off ALL our Soundslices until December 7, including:
• Mozart's Requiem
• Handel's Messiah
• Haydn's Nelson Mass
• Bach Magnificat
• The Wedding at Cana

www.soundslice.com/users/ChoirO...
December 3, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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...from 5 January 2026, we’ll be launching an unmissable 7 week online choral course to learn Byrd Mass For Five Voices. We can’t wait to help you explore and perform it in depth, with The Gesualdo Six - one of the world’s leading Renaissance vocal ensembles.

Join us? 🎶

#Choralsky

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December 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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We’ve something utterly sublime to share today. Take a listen to some of Sanctus & Benedictus from William Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices performed by the incredible Gesualdo Six.

And, we are so very excited to be collaborating with them...

choiroftheearth.com/courses/byrd...

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December 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
❤️❤️❤️
One of the many benefits of being part of Choir of the Earth is the learning resources available to singers. Chorister Denise shares more in this clip. She also chats about how much she loves being part of a choir that is “putting good energy and good vibes out into the world”. 🎶✨ #ChoralSky
November 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Announcing an unmissable collaboration with one the world’s leading Renaissance vocal ensembles!

Launching on Monday 5 January, join Choir of the Earth & The Gesualdo Six for this one-of-a-kind choral course to learn & record William Byrd’s Mass For Five Voices: choiroftheearth.com/courses/byrd...
Byrd Mass for Five Voices with The Gesualdo Six — Choir of the Earth
Join Choir of the Earth and The Gesualdo Six from Monday 5 January 2026 to learn, sing and record William Byrd’s Mass For Five Voices! Learn this work line by line, part by part with our marvellous Mu...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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We're counting down to the festive season & our current course The Wedding at Cana is the gift that keeps on giving!
The choir is learning Movement 7 this week & whether we're listening with the music or studying the detail with just the voice parts, there are yet more stunning moments 🎶
#choralsky
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Finished watching Leonard and Hungry Paul this evening and it was such a beautifully told story of friendship, love, grief, family and quirkiness, told with warmth and humour (narrated by Julia Roberts no less!). Watch if you can: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Leonard and Hungry Paul
Quiet lives, big hearts. A gentle, meandering tale of friendship, board games and finding your way in the world. Starring Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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No Santa “Ho ho ho’s” for us just yet, but we are YO ho ho-ing our way into the week with a fun warm up! 🎶

Our Musical Director Ben, lives in Bristol... the home of the pirate voice (Blackbeard was from there you know!) & as Ben says, it’s amazing what the voice can do when you distract the brain
November 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Shout out to Asda Radio 🪩🎶🛒
Welcome to your 40s. The DJ at this grocery store is spinning nothing but hits.
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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“You drive, I’m tired.”
November 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I hate this narrative that someone genuinely lovely could never win off their own bat. Richard is nice, he's funny, he's a real gentleman and he's genuine. He deserved to win and owes zero thanks to that horrid narcissist and her minions #bbuk #bbll
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I'm sorry but how is it ok for Caroline to kiss Richard on the mouth without consent - someone she has insulted and bullied - and especially someone who has said they are asexual? Imagine the sexes were reversed. Just horrible. #bbuk #bbll
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Want to learn more about the world of #music? 🎶

Our online 'Around Sound' lectures are a friendly and flexible way to explore it all. From The Evolution of Classical Music to a toolkit every singer should have, head here to look around…

choirlibrary.com/around-sound...

#ChoralSky #OnlineLearning
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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As well as learning and singing incredible works, Choir of the Earth is about friendship. Vanessa is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in this clip she shares what it means to her to sing with people from all across the world, online and at the in-person events we create 🎶

#choralsky #choir #sing
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Can't bring myself to vote to save either of these vapid, self-absorbed, twerk-obssessed dullards, sorry. Can we have a "both" option? #bbuk #bbll
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Grief is weird. Something as mundane as the smell of vegetable soup drifting into the street from someone's house can suddenly make you miss someone so intensely your heart aches.
November 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Really enjoyed @choiroftheearth.com teaching by @benenglandbem.bsky.social this week, love the challenge of learning something brand new to me #singing
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Our new course, 'The Wedding at Cana' by Patrick Hawes launches at 17:00 GMT today. Everyone is welcome to join the launch here: youtu.be/xHplYpPyYuw
Patrick has been chatting about this incredible work & is excited at the prospect of it being brought to life in this special World Premiere recording
October 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM