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Welcoming Trans and Non-Binary Singers to Your Chorus

This session is designed for music directors who wish to learn more about the vocal needs of transgender and non-binary individuals and who wish to create open and supportive choruses for all singers. The session focuses on terminology and the gender spectrum as well as vocal pedagogy and supportive practices for transgender and non-binary singers […]

Pittsburgh PA.
Lynn Shane

Filed Under: Interest Session Tagged With: Community Choir, recruiting, Vocal Pedagogy



A Choral Nest-Building Blueprint: Raising Singers and Lifelong Musicians

Do you wonder why your singers stay in or leave your choir? Do you want to help your current singers persist in choral singing? This session will explore the psychological and sociological constructs involved in why singers continue to sing. Attendees will leave with a personalized blueprint on how to build their own choral nest, […]

Pittsburgh PA.
Doreen Fryling

Filed Under: Interest Session Tagged With: recruiting



Bridges Aren’t Built in a Day: Keeping Singers Engaged Over the Long Haul

For many of us, our singers are with us for more than just a year or two. We watch them grow up while they watch us grow old. While they are passionate about singing and love being part of our choir, we continually strive for ways to keep the experience fresh for them—and us—over many […]

Pittsburgh PA.
Mary Clementi, SunHee Lim, Danny Lanzetta

Filed Under: Interest Session Tagged With: Adolescent, recruiting



Using Snapchat and Social Media for Choral Recruiting and Marketing

In today’s world, a social media presence is imperative to the life-blood of a choral program or organization. When targeted appropriately, the different social media platforms can help conductors and singers remain connected outside of the rehearsal room and even provide informal means of assessment. They can keep audiences and donors engaged and informed, providing […]

Oklahoma City OK.
Jeffery Wall

Filed Under: Interest Session Tagged With: recruiting, technology



Increasing Retention with Intergenerational Projects

Recruiting is only the first step! School and church music programs share a vested interest in young people: first engaging them in musical activities and then retaining them as they mature. We all hope that our musical programming will make life-long musicians of our young people, but by performing works that are consciously intergenerational, we […]

Oklahoma City OK.
Joshua Hawkins Nannestad,

Filed Under: Interest Session Tagged With: Community Choir, recruiting



Growing the Population of Male Choral Singers: Boys Tell Us How

This session will focus on findings from an analysis of narrative research about adolescent boys and choral singing, with specific attention to three questions: 1) what attracts boys to choral singing, 2) what deters boys from choral singing, and 3) what are boys’ suggestions for reform in choral pedagogy and performance? The goal of the […]

Louisville KY.
Patrick K. Freer

Filed Under: Interest Session Tagged With: Adolescent, Male Voices, recruiting



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