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Peter Hunt is the inspiration behind OUP's highly successful Voiceworks series, author of four of its titles, and series editor. He is a highly skilled teacher with extensive experience as a choral animateur, clinician, workshop leader, conductor, and arranger. He regularly conducts children's choirs and organises large-scale singing events with young people.The wealth of eclectic material in the Voiceworks series, and the useful teaching notes have made the series a significant contributor to the recent revival of singing and the development of confident singing leaders in the UK. Peter has delivered workshops and Inset training all over the UK, Ireland, Australia, and the USA, and has a reputation for lively, stimulating and highly informative sessions born of real practical experience in the classroom.Peter is Deputy Head of Berkshire Maestros - the young musicians' trust - the Hub which is delivering music education for young people across the county of Berkshire, UK.

Brilliant! At last. Thanks be. Choir leaders charged with motivating young singers will echo these sentiments when they see Voiceworks, a superb resource for leaders of choral groups at all levels. Peter Hunt has poured his years of experience as a choir trainer in the secondary classroom, as an animateur in the primary classroom and as conductor of the Oxfordshire Youth Chamber Choir into this book, collecting songs that will delight, educate and entertain.

• Abeeyo ; Adio mama ; Allunde ; Amazing grace ; Amen siakudumisa ; Away in a manger ; Azikatale ; Baby one ; Certainly, Lord ; Chan mali chan ; Da doo ron ron ; Didn't my Lord deliver Danuel? ; Doubletalk ; Drumkit ; Drunken sailor ; Echo ; Elijah rock ; Father, father goodbye ; Gaudete! ; Glowing candle light ; Good news! ; Green trees, rocky road ; Halle halle, halle ; Hear the wind ; Hepa hepa nay nay ; Hey ungua ; Hill an' gully rider ; I'll fly away ; In the bleak midwinter ; John Kanaka ; Kye kye kule ; Late a come ; Leaving of Liverpool ; Long and short - loud and quiet ; My Bonny ; My hat it has three corners ; Oh, won't you sit down? ; Old Molly Hare ; Oo a lay lay ; Over my head ; Pachelbel ; Sailing ; Saints go marching in ; Shto mi e milo ; Silent night ; Siyahamba ; Song of farewell ; Stand by me ; Steal away ; Step harmony ; Summer holiday ; Swing low, sweet chariot ; The factory girl ; This old hammer ; Three native American chants ; Train rhythms ; Vocal graphics ; Vocalise ; Wade in the water ; Water come a me eye