My CCA: Choir 

Written by Adlyn Koh on 9 March 2025, 2.53 pm

My choir audition was great (I mentioned CCA auditions in my previous blog)! I was very natural and even though my voice cracked when the conductor tested my scales🤭, I felt like myself. I did not fake my voice or anything, I was just basically myself. 

Previously, when I tried to DSA into choir without any prior experience, I got shortlisted after submitting a video recording of me singing the song "Change" by Taylor Swift (my favouriteeee)😍. Unfortunetely, I changed my song on the actual DSA audition and I assume that was why I did failed the DSA😅. However, getting shorlisted for the DSA because of "Change" helped me to get into my current CCA: CHOIR👏. I sang the song "Change" during the CCA audition and that was how I got in to the best CCA in the whole world. Through this experience, I learnt that no hardwork will be wasted. 

In Choir, my singing skills were very raw but after a few sessions, my parents remarked that my singing had improved! I was soooooo overjoyed😆! My vocal position in Choir is Alto 2 (the higest is Soprano, the lowest is Bass. Alto is below Soprano). I love Alto as I feel that our singing is the best🤣.

In Choir, we usually do warmups, before practicing with our vocal sections (I practice with the Altos in a room). After that, towards the end of the session, the whole Choir will come together, with the conductor, and sing as a whole. This year, I am participating in the SYF🥳(a competition between schools in singapore for performing arts CCAs). 

However, I learnt that Choir wasn't all about singing. For most of our pieces, we have to dance along to them! And the dances are not easy too!😭 For example, for one of the pieces we will be performing, we had to hire a professional choreographer to choreograph our song. 

Aside from dancing, Choir also have regular physical training🥲. The recent one we had, I had to run seven rounds around a school block (about around 8 classrooms) and do planks for 1 minute thrice! (Even though my core is stronger than my classmates because I sing relatively a lot, I am not an expert at planks) 😔. At the end of physical training, I was longing to go home. But still, I understood that as singers, we have to build our core and resilience to sing well. I just hope that the next physical training is not 'round the corner☹️.