{"id":11,"date":"2022-01-01T09:04:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T09:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2023-10-21T14:13:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T14:13:44","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"Choir Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Emma Pooley BMus MMus<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cotswold-Choir-Colour-EP-2-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1672\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.70703125;width:311px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cotswold-Choir-Colour-EP-2-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cotswold-Choir-Colour-EP-2-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cotswold-Choir-Colour-EP-2-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cotswold-Choir-Colour-EP-2-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cotswold-Choir-Colour-EP-2-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cotswold-Choir-Colour-EP-2-100x141.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cotswold-Choir-Colour-EP-2-150x212.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cotswold-Choir-Colour-EP-2-200x283.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cotswold-Choir-Colour-EP-2-300x424.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cotswold-Choir-Colour-EP-2-450x636.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cotswold-Choir-Colour-EP-2-600x849.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cotswold-Choir-Colour-EP-2-900x1273.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cotswold-Choir-Colour-EP-2-scaled.jpg 1810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Emma enjoys working with other musicians, professionals and amateurs. Making music in a group can be an excellent way of sharing your love of music with others and enjoying being part of a bigger musical experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emma has worked with <strong>choirs<\/strong>, including children&#8217;s choirs, youth choirs, and community singing groups.  Emma also <a href=\"http:\/\/marlboroughsinginglessons.com\">teaches<\/a> many students&nbsp;<strong>one-to-one,&nbsp;<\/strong>both adults and young people, beginners and accomplished singers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a choir leader and teacher, Emma is aware of the value of thinking medium to long term for developing vocal ability, whether working with <strong>groups <\/strong>or <strong>individuals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Good&nbsp;singing takes<br>thought, emotion,<br>energy&nbsp;and enthusiasm&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learning music is an excellent way of engaging your&nbsp;<strong>creativity, intellect, body&nbsp;and emotions<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;It&#8217;s great fun too! During rehearsals, as we learn new songs, we may work on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>vocal technique<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>song interpretation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>general musicianship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>performance preparation and psychology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Emma&#8217;s choir leading is complemented and enhanced by her work as a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/marlboroughsinginglessons.com\/about-emma\/professional-singer\/\"><strong>professional&nbsp;performer and all-round&nbsp;musician<\/strong><\/a>. Having worked as&nbsp;a soloist, choir member, choir director, and&nbsp;pianist, Emma has&nbsp;extensive experience of the different processes involved in rehearsals and performances.&nbsp; Emma&nbsp;knows the&nbsp;environments in which singers thrive and those&nbsp;in which they merely survive; and&nbsp;is able to work with singers to help maximise&nbsp;their potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Pooley BMus MMus Emma enjoys working with other musicians, professionals and amateurs. Making music in a group can be an excellent way of sharing your love of music with others and enjoying being part of a bigger musical experience. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/?page_id=11\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Choir Leader<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/1677"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marlboroughcommunitychoir.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}