The number of college students who will soon be new conductors and conductors with less than five years of experience is on the rise. Even with strong undergraduate programs preparing students through ensemble and studio work and methods classes, there is still much left to trial and error. What do you do when you are […]
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Maximizing Rehearsal Efficience
An oft-repeated complaint is that there is never enough rehearsal time. On further analysis, however, a staggering amount of wasted time may be lost to a variety of pedagogically poor procedures. A minute here, two minutes there add up to significant amounts of lost rehearsal time. How do we maximize our rehearsal efficiency? It begins […]
Increasing Retention with Intergenerational Projects
Recruiting is only the first step! School and church music programs share a vested interest in young people: first engaging them in musical activities and then retaining them as they mature. We all hope that our musical programming will make life-long musicians of our young people, but by performing works that are consciously intergenerational, we […]
Healthy Vocal Technique for a Lifetime of Singing
This session will provide healthy vocal strategies for older singers. As we age vocally, we need to be reminded of good vocal technique.This workshop will include tips and suggestions for working with older singers in a variety of settings and improving tone production, breath support, and inner hearing. Vocal care will also be addressed.
Engaging Choral Classroom: Choral Lesson Planning
This session will outline successful lesson plans that engage young singers. Many young conductors want help with how to teach a piece and how to plan a rehearsal. This session will give many ideas for the creative use of solfége, teaching strategies, pacing, kinesthetic involvement, and musicianship training based on repertoire. Participants will try some […]
The Engaged Singer
Getting real musicality/artistry out of middle schoolers can be challenging. Having a “full bodied” performance, physical engagement from head to toe, can bring a choir’s singing to the next level and create an engaging performance for an audience member. This session discusses strategies to get your choirs moving and singing with organic movement that will […]
