Janette Ruocco Choral Education & Training - working in harmony with you and your choir
The Meljon Singers
Musical Director : Janette Ruocco
Janette is the founder conductor of the East London-based chamber choir The Meljon Singers with whom she has developed a repertoire of over 500 sacred and secular works. 
 
Upcoming Concert
 
 
 
2012 concert season dates
  • February 19th Northern Lights
  • May 21st - Tonight Eternity
  • October 15th - A Serenade to Music
  • December 1st - Music for Choir, Organ, harp and percussion
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    2011 concert season dates
  • February 19th If music be the food of love
  • May 21st  - Vivat Regina
  • July concert tour to Italy
  • October 15th - Viva Italia! 
  • December 3rd - It came upon the midnight clear
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    October 15th
    Woodford Festival Concert
    The Meljon Singers
    Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle
    a cappella choral items by Allegri, Gabrielli, Gesualdo, Lotti, Monterverdi, Palestrina
    Louisa Tee - soprano
    Christine Petch - alto
    Tom Edward Robson - tenor
    Gary Griffiths - bass
    7.30pm
    Bancroft's School, Woodford Green
    Woodford Festival website
                                                                      Photograph ©Richard Brockbank
     
    Concert Tour to Italy
    Photograph ©Roberto Mariani
    The Meljon Singers & Illumination
    English Sacred Choral Music
    from the 16th, 20th and 21st centuries
    Wednesday July 27th
    9.30pm
    Santa Margherita di Antiochia, Vernazza
    Thursday July 28th
    12 noon
    Chiesa di San Michele in Foro, Lucca
    Friday July 29th
    9.30pm
    Sant' Andrea, Levanto
     
    Listen to Byrd's Ave Verum Corpus recorded live in the concert on May 21st          
    Ave Verum Corpus - William Byrd
    The Meljon Singers live 21.05.11
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    Concert Review: The Food of Love February 19th 2011
     
    2010 concert season
    In 2010 the choir celebrated its twentieth anniversary year with an exciting season of concerts.
    • March 6th - A suitable job for a woman
    • May 22nd - Renaissance!
    • October 9th - Brahms' Requiem (London version)
    • November 27th - Blazing Baroque with Spiritato!
     
    At their Twentieth Anniverary concert on October 9th 2010 the Meljon Singers joined forces with former members of the group to perform two works with piano duet by Brahms, the German Requiem and Geistliche Lied. 
    Listen to the Brahms' Geistliches Lied -
    Geistliches Lied - Brahms
    The Meljon Singers 09.10.10
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    This is what The Ilford Recorder had to say about the performance -
    Please see the Meljon website for more details about the choir.
    For more information about the baroque ensemble Spiritato!  please use this link .
     
     
    Concert Review: A suitable job for a woman March 2010
     
    Listen to the Meljon Singers 
    Kyrie from Rheinberger's  Mass in Eb Op 109 'Cantus Missae' recorded live at a concert on November 21st 2009 :
    Rheinberger : Kyrie
    The Meljon Singers live at St James's Piccadilly
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    With The Meljon Singers Janette has pioneered  two concerts of choral music exclusively by women composers in the last four years and the third took place on March 6th 2010.
     
    Listen to Cecilia MacDowall's Ave Regina recorded live at that concert:
    Cecilia MacDowall: Ave Regina
    The Meljon Singers live 06.03.10
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    In a recent concert at their regular rehearsal venue - St John the Evangelist, Seven Kings - the Meljon Singers gave a concert of spirituals and American light music.
     
    Listen to some pieces here:
    Howard Helvey: Sunset St Louis
    The Meljon Singers live 20.03.10
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    Evelyn La Rue Pittman: Any How
    The Meljon Singers live 20.03.10
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    William Hawley: Vita de la mia vita
    The Meljon Singers live 20.03.10
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    Repertoire
    Janette has conducted The Meljon Singers in large-scale works with orchestra such as Britten's St Nicolas (Chelmsford Cathedral November 2008) and   substantial  a cappella ones, such as the  Rachmaninov Vespers (March  2008).
     
    The Meljon Singers have made it a feature of their work  to seek out and perform  choral works for chamber resources, e.g. Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (2007), Brahms' Requiem  in the version for piano 4 hands (St James' Piccadilly 2007), and works accompanied by a single instrument, including the cello, trumpet and flute.