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Conducting Pedagogy

It’s About the Phrase…LIVE!

This is an introduction to the weekly ACDA video feature “It’s About the Phrase.” It is intended to provide choral conductors with an opportunity to hear small fragments of choral performances for the purpose of comparing different ways to phrase the same piece of music.

Little Rock AR.
Scott W. Dorsey

Filed Under: Interest Session Tagged With: Conducting Pedagogy, Performance



A Paradigm Shift: Teaching Beginning Conductors to Develop Creativity, Musicianship, and Ownership Before Traditional Patterns

Attendees will experience an interactive and hands-on approach to experimenting with sound,alignment, gesture, and creative conducting pedagogy in this paradigm-shifting approach. The process recommended here is aimed at relieving all students of self-consciousness and putting them in a position of always being “right” in early lessons by enabling them to make musical decisions and take […]

Kansas City MO.
Rodney Eichenberger, Jason Paulk

Filed Under: Interest Session Tagged With: Classroom & Curriculum, Conducting Pedagogy, Mentorship, Performance



Sharpening the Knife: Daily Conducting Exercises to Keep Your Skills Sharp

How often do you practice conducting? If conducting is the heart of what we do, why isn’t it a part of our daily routine? This session will explore how we as conductors can practice daily in a manner that maintains dexterity in our gesture and develops new skills that can directly impact the next rehearsal […]

Kansas City MO.
Stephen Caldwell

Filed Under: Interest Session Tagged With: Conducting Pedagogy, Conductor Self-Improvement



Fix it on the Fly: Improving Conducting for the Busy Choir Director

This session will outline a method for self-guided improvement in conducting while maintaining the busy life of a school choir director. Through lecture, discussion, and audience participation, Joshua Bronfman will demonstrate how this method can be utilized to facilitate ongoing growth in conducting technique and effectiveness.

Oklahoma City OK.
Joshua Bronfman

Filed Under: Interest Session Tagged With: Conducting Pedagogy, Conductor Self-Improvement



Music as Movement and Movement as Music: Dance for Choral Conductors

During the Renaissance era, music and dance were partners on the stage and in the salon. Today, music as an art form is studied separately from dance. However, dance theory offers valuable principles for choral conducting technique. Martha Graham (1926-1991), modern dance choreographer, trained dancers with her innovative technique. This interest session will explore how […]

Pasadena CA.
Tram Sparks

Filed Under: Interest Session Tagged With: Conducting Pedagogy, musical physicality



Bilingual Conducting: Connecting Voices and Instruments through Culture-Specific Vocabulary

Choral and orchestral conducting can be considered two different cultures within the same performing art. To communicate effectively in each, it is essential to become conversant in the languages of both. Individuals who are bilingual move naturally and quickly between languages. They are also familiar with the inflections, accentuation, conventions, and rhetoric of multiple cultures. […]

Pasadena CA.
Charles Hausmann

Filed Under: Interest Session Tagged With: Conducting Pedagogy, Conductor Self-Improvement



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