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.
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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 […]
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.
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 […]
The Thinking Rehearsal: Creating Independent Musicians in the Choral Setting
This session will address the advantages of teaching rather than simply rehearsing your choir and model techniques for structuring the rehearsal to engage your singers to think and solve musical problems independently. Octavos of various voicings and difficulty will be used to demonstrate the application of this approach to all age and ability levels.
