The much-loved conductor is hosting a series of spontaneous choirs, where everyone is invited and everyone can sing.

Have you ever wanted to sing in a choir but been afraid to dip your toe in the water? Well, here’s your chance. Conductor Richard Gill will be hosting a series of flash mob choirs at City Recital Hall in Sydney this year. Participants who sign up for the choral gatherings will be contacted by SMS with a date and time a few days before each event. The spontaneous choirs will gather for 40 minutes to sing together – a quick taste of what it’s like to sing in a group ­– before dispersing again.

What will participants get out of the event? “First, I hope they enjoy it,” Gill tells Limelight. “I hope they enjoy singing together and, second, I hope that they discover that they can sing.”

This is obviously something that Gill feels passionate about. “A lot of people have been told at some stage in their lives they can’t sing,” he says. “And normally that happens at school and it often happens in primary school, when they don’t get into a choir or something happens and someone says, ‘well,...