This session will present concepts and new approaches to conducting to transform your rehearsals and performances.
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Choir is … Meanings of the Choral Experience, grades 7-12.
While music making is essential to the choral experience, 2012 Division Conferences – Interest Sessions the meanings found by choral students in grades 7-12 are far from confined to notes, rhythms, or vocal technique. Through an engaging and empowering session using the responses of over 200 choral students, Andrea will discuss the predominant themes of […]
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.
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.
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!
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 […]
