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.
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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.
Choral Conductor and Organist: A Creative Partnership
This is a workshop celebrating the artistic intersections of choir and organ, proposing performance solutions for selected choral repertoire with organ, and answering some questions frequently voiced both by conductors and organists. Repertoire to be addressed: Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Fauré’s Requiem, Parry’s I Was Glad, and Phillips’ Antiphon.
Building Literacy and Musicianship Skills into the Choral Rehearsal: Tonal and Melodic
In this session the sound-to-symbol learning sequence explored in the rhythm session will be applied to tonal and melodic reading. A sequence of vocal pitch exercises will be presented in a graphic form as well as techniques for implementing tonal, rhythm and melodic reading to choral repertoire.
