Community Choir

Cheep Trill is an exciting, joyful, and colourful community choir based in Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia founded by Emma Dean in 2014. It is conducted by Emma, assisted and accompanied by Tony Dean, and managed by Corinne Buzianczuk.  

The choir is open to anyone, above the age of 14, who is interested in group singing. No experience necessary!  We learn and perform all sorts of music with a strong emphasis on contemporary vocal arrangements and mashups written by Emma.

Since our inception, we’ve performed at The Laneway Festival Brisbane, The Empire Theatre Toowoomba, The Southport Community Centre for Coast To Coast Animal Rescue, Brisbane Powerhouse, Eat Street Markets, Concert Hall QPAC, Breweries around Brisbane, Ruckus Slam at The New Globe Theatre, Vulcana Women’s Circus, Velvet Helmet, Brisbane Festival and even on stage at the Triffid with Darren Middleton (Powderfinger)! 

In 2017 we accompanied John Farnham, Katie Noonan, Kate Ceberano, Clare Bowditch, Deborah Conway, Isaiah and Hannah Macklin and even featured on the SONY charity single of You’re The Voice, raising money for DV Connect. 

In 2018 we performed as part of the Commonwealth Games' Festival 2018, took part in our very first Anywhere Theatre Festival Show, and raised money for the Daniel Morcombe foundation at the Mitchelton Jan Powers Farmer’s Markets.

In 2019, we performed our first international shows as part of the Cork International Choral Festival in Ireland where we won the PEACE award for the choir who most embodied the spirit of the festival.

In 2020, Covid hit. We pivoted (hardcore!) and created an epic online experience, Computer Choir. Remarkably 2020 also saw us performing with Glenn Shorrock (Little River Band) as part of Queensland Music Festival’s Help Is On Its Way project, which used his powerful song as a way of opening up a dialogue about mental illness particularly with our men and boys. We even performed Space Oddity by David Bowie in Queen St Mall, alongside vocalist Alison St Ledger, members of Electric Moon collective and the Camerata ensemble, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing.  And to top it off, we released our very first music video, ‘Giants Of The Sky’, written by some of our very own choir members at a recent Songwriting Workshop we hosted.

In 2021 we filmed another music video with over 600 participants at Brisbane Riverstage with Queensland Music Festival featuring Emma Dean singing Vanessa Amorosi’s hit, ‘Absolutely Everybody’.

In 2022, we flash mobbed local breweries, and celebrated with our choristers. And over 2023 and 2024 we have continued the fun, expanding our repertoire and performance experience. We’ve also celebrated our founder Emma Dean who won Queensland’s first 40under40 awards and the Outstanding Young Griffith Alumni Awards for Arts, Education and Law. Cheep Trill received an honourable mention for both awards.

We’d love to sing with you!  More details below...

Join our choir!

Registrations for our latest choir term are now closed. We will be back early next year in 2025!

How do you register for next term? If you join our mailing list (form below) we will let you know when registrations open.

• Review our Cheep Trill FAQs to learn more including dates and locations (please note this is for our current term, information subject to change).

• Our choir is for anybody over the ages of 14, who want to sing in a group with other members of the community.

• We do NOT hold auditions, and we welcome shower singers to advanced singers.

• Rehearsals are usually held for an 8-10 week period, 3-4 times per year, at either or both of these locations:

  • Southside of Brisbane (Camp Hill): Mondays 6.30PM-8.30PM

  • Northside of Brisbane (Enoggera): Tuesdays 6.30PM-8.30PM

  • OR you can join online from the comfort of your home via our Facebook Live rehearsals (which works really well for our attendees & we make it as interactive as possible) on either of the nights above, and join in person for the end of term performance. 

• Costs vary depending on term length, but as a guide, it’s $200 for a 10 week term. OR join our online only choir for $100 for a 10 week term (see more below).

• We have optional public performances as part of our term for our members to challenge themselves and have some fun!

• You would prefer to join us online than in person?
  That’s great! We’d love to have you join online. How it works: we will send you all the materials you need, and then we live stream our rehearsals on our closed Facebook Group (so you’d need to have access to Facebook, it’s the best quality option); and you can watch and practice along at home. We’d then love you to join us in person for our end of term public performance!

• Questions? Reach out to hello@cheeptrill.com

Add yourself to our mailing list so you can be one of the first to hear about registrations opening for choir terms…

Our pay it forward option was such a success last two choir terms. It allowed for a number of people who had financial difficulties at the time, the ability to join our choir (both in person and online) and feel the magical healing powers of group singing. So if you have the ability to and would like to flex your philanthropic muscle, we would very happily accept and pass on any donations from you (whether it be $10 or $200) - you can “pay it forward” any time, not just at registrations.

Questions?

Email us at hello@cheeptrill.com

 Want to hear/see us?

Check out our Cheep Trill YouTube Account to hear us at our past performances!