Embracing Average (Part 1 of 2) | 023

“Pub Choir is really always about embracing average and letting people be free to be average. I think as a society/culture, we’re very obsessed with trying to be the best and feeling really competitive about stuff, but it’s really quite freeing to feel unimportant.”

Astrid Jorgensen on the Crescendo Music Education Podcast

Astrid Jorgensen is a Brisbane-based choral conductor, composer, producer, and presenter with an unquenchable thirst for teaching the world to sing. She is the founder director of ‘Pub Choir™’ and it’s online Covid adaptation ‘Couch Choir’, as well as co-creator and co-host of live TV spectacular ‘Australia’s Biggest Singalong!’. Astrid has sung with over 300,000 people worldwide since 2017, including the likes of Paul Kelly, Neil Finn, and Olivia Newton-John. Astrid was nominated for 2020 QLD Young Australian of the Year and was named as one of the 40-under-40 most influential Asian Australians in 2021.

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