{"id":1069,"date":"2015-02-26T09:43:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T09:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2015-02-26T09:43:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T09:43:37","slug":"invicta-voices-kents-first-alumni-choir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2015\/02\/26\/invicta-voices-kents-first-alumni-choir\/","title":{"rendered":"Invicta Voices, Kent&#8217;s first alumni choir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/50\">50th anniversary<\/a> celebrations have coincided with the establishment of Kent\u2019s first alumni choir.<\/p>\n<p>Formed by alumnus Matt Bamford (Eliot 2010), who conducted the University\u2019s Chamber Choir in 2013-2014, <em>Invicta Voices<\/em> is based in London and comprises University alumni who are all\u00a0former Chamber Choir members.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The idea for an alumni choir first came about after discussions that many members of last year\u2019s choir were graduating and moving to London and wanted to carry on singing together. Sue Wanless, Director of Music, had also \u2018sown the seed\u2019 earlier in the year by mentioning the idea of pulling together an alumni group of singers who were based in London\u2019 explains Matt.<\/p>\n<p><em>Invicta Voices<\/em> meets bi-weekly, exploring a wide range of choral music from Byrd and Hassler right the way through to more contemporary music from Gjeilo and Whitacre.<\/p>\n<p>The Choir will be officially launched at their inaugural <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/music\/whatson.html?tab=march\">concert<\/a> on <strong>Friday 27 March at 8pm<\/strong> in the Colyer-Fergusson Hall, Canterbury Campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We are incredibly excited about our inaugural concert in March. The opportunity to return to Canterbury and sing in the fantastic Colyer-Fergusson Hall will be a very special occasion for all those involved, including those who fundraised for the Hall in the early stages but are yet to see the new building\u2019 says Matt.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the concert are free and available to all.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about <em>Invicta Voices<\/em>, please contact <a href=\"mailto:alumni@kent.ac.uk\">alumni@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University\u2019s 50th anniversary celebrations have coincided with the establishment of Kent\u2019s first alumni choir. Formed by alumnus Matt Bamford (Eliot 2010), who conducted the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2015\/02\/26\/invicta-voices-kents-first-alumni-choir\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34788,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118122,118124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}