For choirs and the people who run them
Byrd keeps the choir together so the choir can sing.
The library, the register, the rehearsals, the money, the messages: the quiet expertise that runs an amateur choir, handled, so the only thing left to think about is the music.
byrd-app.co.uk
In use with founding choirs
What it does
Everything a committee passes round in spreadsheets
- MembersVoice parts, status, contact details and a member portal. Import from a spreadsheet in one go.
- Rehearsals and eventsA season's rehearsals created in one step, venues, clash warnings and calendar feeds for every member.
- AttendanceMark the register on a phone; members report absences themselves. Reports by term, section or singer.
- Music libraryEvery piece and every copy, owned, borrowed or photocopied, numbered and tracked out and back.
- Score playerUpload a score and rehearse from it: parts balanced, tempo changed, notes highlighted as they sound.
- Fees and Gift AidSeasons and fee schedules, payments matched from the bank statement, Gift Aid claims and overdue statements.
- CommunicationsRehearsal reminders and notices to the right people, automatically, in the choir's own voice.
- JoiningA join form for the choir's own website, with parent contacts for youth choirs and consent recorded.
In service, never centre stage
The choir's name on everything
Singers, parents and audiences see their choir: its name, its colours, its address on the web. Byrd stays behind the curtain. Each choir's data is its own, held in the United Kingdom, and leaves with the choir if it ever moves on.
Byrd is named for William Byrd, whose printed partbooks let a scattered group of singers hold the same music and become one voice. That is, almost exactly, the job.
Byrd is working with its first choirs now. Ask us about yours.