The Canberra Grammar School Chamber Choir is a combined junior and senior school auditioned choir. Boys from Year 5 to Year 11, plus a few others, make a full SATB choir of 43 voices. And they work hard! If you would like to hear how good the choir is please listen to this. This recital was the first of the 2009 European tour. It was the first chance the majority of the choristers had to sing in a cathedral, and they did the school, and Australia, proud. The Chamber Choir is the only group of any sort - music, cultural or sporting - which covers such a wide age range, and it is wonderful to see the interaction between the choristors. In 2009 the choir was invited back to Westminster Abbey to sing in the Anzac Day ceremony - a real surprise and bonus as they last sang there in 2007 - to be invited back so soon is a great indicator of how they are well they are regarded overseas, at the highest level. The last performance of the 2009 tour was in Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, and it was probably their best performance - they were relaxed, confident, and proud of what they had achieved. The recording of this will be uploaded shortly. They were also invited to a workshop at Eton College in Windsor where Ralph Allwood, the director of music at Eton and maybe the best person in the world with kids' voices, spent a morning with them. But this choir is NOT just about European tours. The Chamber Choir is an incredible learning experience, where every member learns that if you work hard, very hard, for a long time, then sometimes magic happens. As yet the choir has not publicly performed in Canberra. They're worth it and we should work towards that. And if you think your child may not be good enough - give him a chance! Very few of the younger boys have any formal music tuition at all. Many of them find their hidden talent purely as a result of the Chamber Choir. It's the most incredible opportunity that the school offers. Grab it if you have the chance. One of my favourite stories is of a year 5 boy who auditioned for the Chorale in September 2008 and was immediately offered a spot in the Chamber Choir. He had had no singing experience before that, but now, as he says. "The Chamber Choir is my life!". The choir gave him the chance of finding what he could be great at.