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  Champagne Cork won first place in the I.A.B.S National Ladies Chorus competition in 2000 and were silver medallists in 2001. Clare Hunt handed
over the Directorship to Assistant Director, Ursula Mulvihill following
Convention 2003. Ursula was a strong member of the chorus for a number of
years, and attended BABS Directors' College in January 2003. She herself had
studied both Violin and Voice in the Cork School of Music, where Bobby Beare
was her Singing teacher. She holds an Associate and a Licentiate from the
London College of Music (ALCM and LLCM), and so Champagne Cork Chorus was
really lucky to find a member as well-qualified as Ursula is to take over from
Clare. She has continued to inspire confidence in members and to keep up the
spirit of friendship and fun that has always been the hallmark of Champagne
Cork since it's foundation.
The acorn for Champagne Cork was sown back in 1994 when
Clare Hunt and her vocal ensemble heard several barbershop choruses
and quartets perform, while competing at the A.I.M.S. (Association
of Irish Musical Societies) Choral Festival in New Ross, Co. Wexford.
Following that outing Clare put together a small barbershop chorus. Since then Champagne Cork's annual program has included attending various Irish Barbershop conventions and competitions - prize wins have resulted on several occasions! We have also previously attended two Harmony College Workshops during the Killarney Roaring 20's Festivals. Champagne Cork won first place in the IABS Ladies Chorus
competition in 2000.
We would like to pay tribute to Pat Kelly who has given us coaching
and lots of encouragement ever since we started. We wish him success with
his new Harmony Consulting Company,
www.harmony-consulting.com
We have already benefited from this when Leo Larivee recently
brought Beverly Miller, Director of River Magic, Huntington, to give
us a coaching session, and what a session!! It could only be
described as sensational! We look forward to Beverly bringing
her chorus to our Convention in Dublin next October. Pat has given
us some more help since then, and B Natural are looking forward to
having a couple of coaching sessions from him too.
We competed in New Ross Choral Festival, B/Shop section on Sunday May 20th 2001. New Ross is a lovely small town in the South East of the country. They hold a Choral Festival every year at this time. Benatural competed also in this open Competition. There were 10 Groups competing. Benatural were the winners and Champagne Cork the Runners Up. We were all very happy with the result Champagne Cork rehearses every Wednesday night in Cork County Cricket Club on the famous Mardyke and we are always glad to welcome visitors to our sessions. On average our chorus stands at in or around twenty members. To send us an email click on the shamrock
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