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Choral Conducting Courses & Training |
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15 May 12 June 17 July |
ABCD Extended Choral Conductors Training Initial course - provides a firm foundation for singing leaders and covers;
Dates: 10th
April, 15th May, 12th June, 17th July Visit www.abcd.org.uk or contact Kate Allen, 07528 382445 / kate.allen@abcd.org.uk for more information. |
| 29 May |
The Choral Voice: for
Choral Conductors & Singing Teachers In association with the British Voice Association Speakers Stuart Barr, Mike Brewer, Mary King, Jo McNally and Graham Welch will cover a range of topics including how the voice works ; improving choral singing technique; differences between choral and solo singing; idiomatic choral sound; the ageing voice; children’s and adolescent voices; warm-up: theory & practice; vocal health and how conducting gesture affects voice. Date: Saturday 29 May Venue: 10.00-17.30 The Priory Rooms, 40 Bull Street, Birmingham B4 6AF Course Cost: £60 (abcd or BVA members), £70 (non-members) £35 (students). |
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25 July 12 September 16 October 17 October |
ABCD Intermediate Course - includes active training sessions on vocal and rehearsal techniques alongside masterclasses and covers;
The course is accepted as a substitute for the DipABRSM (Music Direction) which allows students who have successfully completed the course to proceed to the LRSM (Music Direction). Dates: 24th &
25th April, 23rd May, 27th June, 25th
July, 12th September, 16th and 17th October Course Cost: £560 (abcd members) or £595 (non-members). Visit www.abcd.org.uk or contact Kate Allen, 07528 382445 / kate.allen@abcd.org.uk for more information. |
| 9 - 12 August |
Conducting and Rehearsing with Christopher Gayford The conductor and researcher Christopher Gayford will help you improve and develop your score-learning, interpretation, gesture and rehearsal techniques, working with examples from the orchestral, choral and operatic repertoire. Some pieces might be specified in advance, and you are invited to play or sing in small ensemble versions of the works to provide your fellow participants with plenty of opportunities for hands-on conducting. So bring your instrument! Christopher’s course will benefit conductors at all levels, and places might be available for those who don’t want to conduct but instead to develop their listening and/or performing skills. Resident £220 Non Resident £185 This course and more like it take place in the beautiful grounds of Benslow Music Trust, Little Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. SG4 9RB. Tel: 01462 459446 Email: info@benslow.org Web: www.benslow.org |
| 9 October 2010 |
The College’s popular start-of-season Choral Directing event returns in 2010 as a full-day workshop, with a professional-standard chamber choir present for the afternoon session. This year’s tutor is Peter Wright, Organist & Director of Music at Southwark Cathedral and RCO Chief Examiner from 1997-2005. The programme is designed to be accessible to choral directors of all levels of experience, whether they work with church or secular choirs, and whether or not they are keyboard players. It is an essential event for those preparing for (or considering) the Royal College of Organists’ Choral Directing Diploma. Based around the practical requirements of the Diploma, there will be opportunities for those who wish to do so to conduct pieces from the set repertoire, working with piano in the morning and with the chamber choir in the afternoon. You may attend as an active participant or as an observer. Up to five people will be able to conduct the choir in the afternoon session. They will be chosen in order of receipt of booking form and repertoire offered, and will be asked to pay a supplementary charge of £10 on the day. For full details of the Choral Directing Diploma visit http://www.rco.org.uk/examinations.php or contact the College to be sent a copy of the Regulations. Saturday 9 October 2010, 11:00 – 16:30 Temple Church London (wonderful acoustic!) Tutor: Peter Wright, Organist and Director of Music, Southwark Cathedral and former RCO President and Chief Examiner Professional chamber choir present in afternoon. Non-members welcome. Attend as active participant or observer
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