By offering guided opportunities to explore text narrative, choral conductors encourage singers to deepen their perceptions and discover how texts are relevant to their lives. Learn time-efficient methods to enable singers to imagine and develop stories inspired by texts, moving past initial impressions to form personally meaningful interpretations.
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Developing Critical Listening Skills for Undergraduates
This clinic is for undergraduates preparing for student teaching in a choral setting, but is useful to teachers of choral methods courses. It introduces a fresh approach for engaging in critical listening skills of choral singing, and explores the development of quality choral performance stemming from rigorous and comprehensive rehearsals.
Body Architecture and Body Kinesthetic: Keys to Expressive Conducting
This session will set about redefining essential conducting technique through Body Mapping and the use of Laban to arrive at conducting gesture that supports musical and vocal objectives in choral ensemble rehearsal and performance.
Commissioning: Engaging Your Patrons, Singers, and Board in New Music
This panel/repertoire session is presented by five conductors with experience in church, youth, collegiate, community, and symphonic choirs. All panelists share a penchant for new music and evolving the choral art. In this session, discussion will include the entire choral commissioning process from beginning to end and provide illustrated examples from professional, collegiate, community, and […]
Choral Singing in Marginalized Communities: Documentation and Strategies
This workshop has a twofold purpose: to discuss how choirs can reach out to or be created in marginalized populations; and to help choral musicians develop ideas, strategies, knowledge, and repertoire for socially-responsible outreach in prisons, shelters, hospitals, and the bedsides of the dying.
Choral Directors are from Mars and Voice Teachers are from Venus: ‘Sing from your Diaphragm’ and Other Vocal Mistructions
How can middle and high school and college choral conductors interact with independent and academic voice teachers in their area to develop a successful team? Is the voice teacher/choral conductor conflict in higher education fantasy or fact? Exploring answers to these questions, we will delve into commonly used mis-instructions and their implications.
