This session will explore innovative choral music practices that enable and empower singers experiencing disabilities. Singers from the Notes from the Heart Music Program in Pittsburgh will collaborate with conductor Andrew Clark in a lecture-panel-demonstration that explores inclusive and accessible approaches in their creative process and values drawn from their collective work that can inform […]
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Crossing South of the Border: Expanding our Choral Repertoire
This session is for choral conductors who want to cross borders and expand their repertoire. Participants will learn about the interconnectedness between music from a Latin American point of view. To avoid stereotyping, conductors need to acquire a deeper understanding of the music beyond the musical notation. In addition to learning about the history of […]
Conference Conducting Master Classes: Reflections and Applications
While conducting master classes are invaluable experiences for participating conductors, what are the “take-aways” for the observers? What enables young conductors to move from thinking about gesture and purely technical matters to actually becoming the music and meshing the ensemble’s performance with the conductor’s inner dream? These and other questions will be considered as they […]
Conducting with Purpose, Process, and Passion
Janet Galván will share ideas about the building blocks that lead to inspiring performances in a way that engages and enlightens the singers in the process. She will provide ways of giving ownership to the singers so that the process is collaborative and singers develop musical independence. She will also demonstrate how to develop the […]
Choral-Orchestral Works by Women Composers of the 18th through 20th centuries
This session will present in historical context four major works by women composers: Marianne Martines (1744-1812), Dixit Dominus (1774); Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847), Oratorium (1831); Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), Psalm 130: Du fond de l’âbime (1910-1917); and Henrietta Glick (1901-1994), Fire-head (completed after World War II),discovered in the last twenty years of the twentieth century but […]
A Choral Nest-Building Blueprint: Raising Singers and Lifelong Musicians
Do you wonder why your singers stay in or leave your choir? Do you want to help your current singers persist in choral singing? This session will explore the psychological and sociological constructs involved in why singers continue to sing. Attendees will leave with a personalized blueprint on how to build their own choral nest, […]
