Author: YourAccompanist
Latest additions September 2023
Faure’s Life and Songs
Behind the scenes: Meet Katherine
Vieni Sul Mar performed by Ken Takashima
Gloomy Sunday, by Rezső Seress
Elgar: The Shepherd’s Song
Bespoke piano recording service
Christmas singing inspirations for… soloists
Weep you no more sad fountains performed by Joanna Swadling
Virtual summer music tour of Europe
Opera North: Minute Masterpieces competition
New look, free track
Links for Singers
Your choice for bespoke piano accompaniments
Accompanying singers: two duets-with-self performed by Stephen Cockle
Accompanying singers: Eriskay Love Lilt by Vigo Singers and East Malling Singers
Estill & classical singing: a great recipe for opera sound
Content channels to reignite the singing senses
La Maestra conducting competition 2022 is open
German-language listening resources for singers and musicians
Accompanying singers: Laurel Irene performs À Chloris by Reynaldo Hahn
Rediscovering “O Lovely Night”
Accompanying singers: Art is Calling for Me performed by Anette Raukola
DIY Blob Opera
Accompanying singers: Smaragda Tsairi performs Après un rêve, by Fauré
Summer song discovery: five free songs to sing into summer
A duet with my father: the therapeutic effect of a long-lost voice
Core ‘Ngrato (Catari, Catari) by Cadillo – performed by Thomas Black
Singing in my slippers: Strauss at home with kids
Just Talking Musicals Season 2 out now!
Accompanying Singers: Barcarolle by Offenbach performed by Corinna Herden
What key is it in? Count your sharps and flats…
Purcell meets Punk: The Cold Song performed by Klaus Nomi
Behind the scenes: Meet Michael
There’s no better way to get into the Christmas spirit than singing!
Delight your singers: add value with a sharing licence
Two Daughters of This Aged Stream performed by Dr Tania S. Smith
Inspired by Simple Writer
Pavarotti sings La Danza by Rossini with James Levine at the piano
What Does a Pianist See?
Full HPPTS encryption is now live
Wantage Music Festival Singing Section – 24th June 2017
Male singers wanted for an immersive vocal performance
Oh La La! Baroque Opera @ French Fest, London
Choral director Aoife Hiney looks back at the 2016 ZêzereArts Festival
Zêzerearts Choral Festival 2017
What’s new? Latest piano accompaniments – January 2017
What’s new? Latest additions Autumn 2016
New look for PayPal Guest Checkout
Hitting the high notes for Parkinson’s UK
Have you heard of the LiederNet archive?
Bobby McFerrin and the power of the pentatonic
The Aria Database
Apprentice repetiteur sought for summer opera course
Juan Diego Florez “Cessa di piu resistere” piano rehearsal
Voz Nua perform Devir by Adonias Calebe
Antonio Pappano introduces the music of Parsifal
Key colour and me
Reasons briefly set down by th’author, to perswade every one to learne to sing
Voice box choir
#scienceofopera with Stephen Fry and Alan Davies
@getmensinging against prostate cancer
Marion Studholme sings Caro Nome
Di Donato to play Florence Foster Jenkins
The Swingles sing Libertango
Looking for singing opportunities in 2016? Helen is organising a workshop!
Jimmy Fallon, The Roots & “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Cast Sing “Star Wars” Medley
Carols In Comfortable Keys video sampler
Sarah Connolly’s 2014 RCM Masterclasses
BBC Radio 3 carol competition opens
Nat Geo photo prize winner inspires #pianolove
Queen of the Night with acrobatics
Tenor sings lieder during brain surgery
Joyce DiDonato on Breath Support
Now, that’s what we call a one-man-band!
Animation: The Life of Maria Callas
2014 Julliard Masterclasses with Renée Fleming
Eric Whitacre’s 2015 Oxford Union Address
Klaus Frahm’s “The fourth wall”
Gibbons and Opera Singers Use the Same Voice Tools
Sharon Steinberg sings Il Pleure Dans Mon Coeur by Claude Debussy
Accompanying singers: Art songs at the Edinburgh Festival
Joyce DiDonato 2015 ROH Masterclasses
The unconventional life of a London piano tuner
Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater
Beer…The Musical?
“But for the opera I could never have written Leaves of Grass”: Walt Whitman
“Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving…”
Beethoven on practice
Heroes from the shadows: Nathalie Stutzmann and Orfeo55
Contribute to the YourAccompanist blog!
What’s on at the musicals: High Society
Merry Clayton in Gimme Shelter
Opera, politics and European culture
Hans Kühner demonstrates traditional music plate engraving
Accompanying instrumentalists
Music visualisations: Flight of the Bumblebee
