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\nThis year marks the fifth anniversary of the ROH Thurrock Community Chorus. Ensemble singing groups like this offer unique opportunities for meeting and creating with people from all walks of life. Find out more at Since the Thurrock...\nThis year marks the fifth anniversary of the ROH Thurrock Community Chorus. Ensemble singing groups like this offer unique opportunities for meeting and creating with people from all walks of life. Find out more at Since the Thurrock Community Chorus was founded in 2011, its members have had the opportunity to perform alongside professional singers at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, as well as in festivals such as the annual Chorus festival at Southbank Centre. Much has been made in recent years of a perceived decline in a sense of community. At a time when we’re busier and more work-focused than ever before, opportunities to engage with other members of our local society are in short supply. Help is at hand however, in the form of the nation's choirs. Ensemble singing is currently enjoying a boom, as exemplified by the Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus who this year are celebrating their fifth anniversary. 'It feels like a family,' says Jeremy Haneman, the Community Chorus's Music Director. 'There are fathers and sons, and husbands and wives in the Chorus, as well as people who have never met each other but have now formed a really great bond.' From retired semi-professionals to those that have never sung before, the Chorus are an eclectic group of people, but what they all share is an appreciation for their community and a passion for singing. 'I started off singing quietly at the back in rehearsals,’ says tenor Brendan O’Callaghan, who joined the Chorus with his wife and daughter as a way of spending more time together. ‘But gradually I’ve become better and better at singing. It gives you such a sense of satisfaction when you've reached the heights of doing a performance.’ For soprano Ann Copeland, being in the Community Chorus has helped to build her confidence: 'It's good for your brain and it really gives you self-confidence, especially when you have to stand at the front,' she says. While for alto Jen Wilson, a primary school teacher, singing has been a great way to escape the pressures of everyday life: 'I enjoy it so much,' she says. 'It's nice to get away from everything else and just absorb the music and throw myself into it.' Since the Community Chorus was founded in 2011, its members have had the opportunity to perform alongside professional singers at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, as well as in festivals such as the annual Chorus festival at Southbank Centre. This month, to mark their fifth anniversary, the group will showcase their talents back in the local community with a birthday performance at the Civic Hall in Grays, Essex.\n
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Visual & Performing Arts
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2019
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