This session will be of interest to conductors of high school, collegiate, and adult women’s choirs and fits the themes of Advocate and Teach. The session will feature a panel of conductor/authors who have contributed chapters to a newly published book: Conducting Women’s Choirs: Strategies for Success, Debra Spurgeon, editor, GIA Publications. Each author will […]
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Conducting Women’s Choirs: Strategies for Success
Choral Cross Training: Exploring the Music of Non-Western Cultures with Bel Canto-Trained Singers
The presenters have a passion for performing music of non-Western cultures with choirs trained in the Bel Canto style of singing. While many are afraid that exploring the timbres produced in these pieces can harm our singers voices, we believe the opposite to be true. Our singers, time and time again, have found that they […]
Challenging the Children’s Choir Movement to Inclusionary Excellence: Exploring Emerging Models for Inclusion
This panel session will feature the exploration of emerging models for inclusion in the Children’s Choir movement with experiences being outlined from the VIVA! Youth Singers of Toronto’s ECS: Everyone Can Sing Choir, now in its fourth year, and The Oakville Children’s Choir developing partnership with ErinOakKids Centre for Treatment and Development (the largest Children’sTreatment […]
Cambiata Voices: Finding the Shoe that Fits
When working with early adolescent male voices, choral music teachers are confronted with two challenges: identifying the singing range of each male singer and finding quality music to fit the musical ranges of their male students. A brief video will demonstrate a testing procedure to identify range, ear quickness, and timbre quality of the Cambiata […]
The Art of Successful Programming: Study, Selection, and Synthesis
During this session we will look at various models for programming at all levels and discuss why certain tendencies seem to attract audiences and others tend to have them racing to get out of the hall. We will look at our likelihood to program only certain kinds of repertoire. In addition, we will study ways […]
