Community Choral Project
In 2020, the Community Choral Project will be singing hits from one of the worlds most highly acclaimed and successful artists, Sir Elton John!
Featuring songs such as Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Rocket Man, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, Can You Feel The Love Tonight, Crocodile Rock and Tiny Dancer.
Registrations now open until Monday 3 February 2020 at 5.00pm. Please read the information pack prior to submitting your registration.
The Community Choral Project is a community arts project open to all members of the community, in particular those people who have always wanted to sing in a choir but never dared. The project aims to bring members of the community together to work on a production that is showcased at the Joondalup Festival.
Each year the City contracts a musical director to conduct the community choir. The choir come together to rehearse for approximately eight weeks leading to a final performance at the Joondalup Festival. The choir is made up of amateur, semi-professional singers and music enthusiasts. It is a great opportunity to meet other singers in the northern corridor of Perth and challenge yourself to learn repertoire you have not sung before.
In 2019, Musical and Creative Director Matt Reuben James Ward has unearthed resonating stories from community members based on the songs that inspired them. Selected from over 50 songs, the community choir of 240 will took audience members on a stroll down memory lane, as Ward put his distinctive spin on favourites by The Beatles, Crowded House, Eric Clapton, The Monkees and more.
- 2013 – Banuru Songs, composed by Alberto Caruso to a text by Vivienne Glance (world premiere)
- 2014 – Back to Barbershop! Devised by Carole Macintyre and Bill McAllister of MacMusiCo
- 2015 – West End Wonder, musical direction by Jangoo Chapkhana
- 2016 – A Hard Day’s Night, musical direction by Jangoo Chapkhana
- 2017 – Fiesta! Musical direction by Jangoo Chapkhana
- 2018 – The Music of Queen, musical direction by Jangoo Chapkhana
- 2019 – Resonating Stories, Shining Songs musical and creative direction by Matt Reuben Ward