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Better Quality Recordings of Your Choir

This session will explore when to use professional versus amateur recording resources, how to facilitate greater success and create better recordings and how to effectively communicate with recording engineers. This session is primarily focused on capturing live events.

Winston-Salem, NC
Andrew Robinette



A New Model for Professional Choirs – featuring Seraphic Fire

Patrick Dupré Quigley and James Bass of the Grammy-nominated ensemble Seraphic Fire discuss the changing trends in American choral singing over the past 50 years that led to the growth of professional ensembles around the country.

Winston-Salem, NC
Patrick Dupré Quigley



The Wow Factor: Create It, Aspire It, Achieve It

This session is a practical guide for performers, students, teachers and parents that offers fundamental philosophies and concepts essential to a person’s growth and development that will contribute to a successful professional life in music. Call it the Wow Factor—there is something for everyone in this interactive workshop!

Providence, RI
Steve Zegree



Why Monteverdi? Recent Discoveries that Raise the Composer’s Profile Above His Contemporaries.

Monteverdi has had a reputation far above those of his contemporaries. After 30 years and much research into these contemporaries and discovery of more of them, Monteverdi’s image seems to be reinforced. This session is an attempt to come to grips with exactly what it is in his vocal music that makes it clearly so […]

Providence, RI
Robert Hollingworth



Undergraduate Conducting Masterclass

Paul Rardin will be joined by a small group of auditioned undergraduate conductors and a college-level demonstration choir to focus on effective conducting gestures, with emphasis on finding balance between clarity and expression.

Providence, RI
Paul Rardin



Ubuntu! Learning and Singing South African Music like South Africans

Ubuntu! is an African word that means “a person is a person through other people.” Choral singing is the ultimate manifestation of the concept of ubuntu. Attendees will be engaged and enthralled as they learn South African music the way South Africans themselves learn it—by making music first and perfecting it along the way. Songs […]

Providence, RI
Steven Fisher



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