Who Are We?

An introduction by Emma dean…

Hello and welcome!

I’m so pleased you’re here.

Whether you’re a full-blown choir nerd, a shower singer, or simply choir-curious, I’m delighted you’ve found your way to Cheep Trill HQ. Perhaps you’d like to know a little about us? Well, settle in, grab a cuppa, and let me tell you the story of one of the greatest and most unexpected accidents of my life: Cheep Trill.

At its heart, Cheep Trill is a music community. We’re dedicated to creating a safe and welcoming environment where people of all experience levels and abilities can explore their creativity and musical expression without judgment. It’s a place where strangers become friends, confidence grows, and music becomes a vehicle for genuine human connection.

Today, we run weekly community choirs across Brisbane’s northside and southside, as well as Moreton Bay, the Sunshine Coast, and the Gold Coast. We also offer adult music theatre and performance workshops and host special events throughout the year, including Choir-aoke - our very own spin on karaoke.

But Cheep Trill has always been about much more than singing.

Through this community, bands have formed, friendships have flourished, people have fallen in love, married, and even started families. Social gatherings have evolved into thriving networks of support and connection.

It’s really, really beautiful.

The Cheep Trill team has become like family to me. Together, we work hard to nurture this community, always looking for new ways to create music, connection, and a little bit of magic.

But before I tell you more about Cheep Trill, I should probably introduce myself.

My name is Emma Dean, and I founded Cheep Trill in 2014 because I needed a change.

For more than a decade, I worked tirelessly to share my original music with a wider audience. I even moved to the other side of the world in pursuit of that dream. Somewhere along the way, though, I lost sight of why I fell in love with music in the first place.

After a great deal of soul-searching—and a couple of nudges from the universe—I remembered the answer: real-life human connection.

So, at one of the lowest points in my life, I made a decision. I moved back to Brisbane and started a community choir.

On the verandah of a friend’s house.

Beside a field of cows.

As you do.

I genuinely thought it would be a short-term experiment. Instead, week after week, more people arrived. Before long, the choir had grown so much that I began to worry we might fall straight through the verandah. Then we outgrew that space. Then the next one. And the next.

For the first time in a very long time, things felt as though they were flowing.

What began as a small gathering of people singing together beside a paddock became something far bigger than I could ever have imagined. This beautiful accident grew into a thriving community and one of the greatest joys of my life.

The rest, as they say, is history.