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Open rehearsals on the 14th of january at 18 o´clock in Snellmania’s SN100 auditorium

UEF Kuopio Student Union organises two open rehearsals at the beginning of the spring term, January 14th at 18 o’clock. For these rehearsals, you can come, see and listen to what choral singing can be like at the university and whether this could be a good hobby for you as well. The open rehearsals include elements of normal rehearsals like vocal warm-ups and singing, but you also get to hear greetings from our choir director Richard and members of the board of the association that maintains the choir, so you get a good picture of what we do.

After the rehearsals, we will provide further information on joining the choir and we hope you could give us (Richard and a couple of our board members) a singing example. You can sing Ave Maria for us, but something like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star will work as well. There is no need to stress over this audition! The purpose is to listen together to what kind of sound register you have and after that, fit you into parts of Sopranos, Altos, Tenors and Bass. If you are unable to come to our open rehearsals but you still would be interested in joining the choir, or you have any questions, please contact us by email: yo-kuoro@student.uef.fi.

To join the choir you don’t have to be a student at the University of Eastern Finland. Our choir has also had members of university personnel, aupairs, exchange students and people having a gap year. Everyone is welcome!

The Christmas Concert of 2023

The UEF Kuopio Student Choir had a Christmas concert with the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra. We sang accompanied by the orchestra, but also with all the concert quests. The concert was conducted by a legendary Finnish conductor, emeritus professor Atso Almila. The University of Eastern Finland got together with the Orchestra and they produced a video with us to send the Season’s greetings, watch it below!