Choir Fam Podcast
Choir Fam Podcast
Latest Episodes
Ep. 160 - Enlivening Conducting with Imagery & Kinesthetics - Gary Seighman
"For years, I felt that there was no connection with my hands and the sound. My perception of conducting at the time was that everything needs to be free and relaxed, no tension - and no tension when you sing. There has to be tension when you s...
Ep. 159 - Sparking Community Dialogue Through Music - Wendy Moy
“We really wanted our choirs to be more embedded in the community. When I moved to Syracuse, I thought, ‘what does that mean for me?’ There are a lot of teachers out there who are just itching for a professional or pre-professional experience. ...
Ep. 158 - Stirring the Pot to Encourage Vocal & Choral Dialogue - Mandy Matthews
“I really care a lot about what the student wants to get out of our time together: finding a nice, healthy, balanced phonation that they identify with, that they feel is their true sound, not something I’m forcing them to sound like. More than ...
Ep. 157 - Text Painting and Structure in Multimovement Works - Dylan Trần
“I shortlisted it to about 10 or 11 poems. I printed them all out on big pieces of paper, and I did visual sketches of what the piece might look like. I would lay them out on the ground, mix them around, and play with what kind of arc it would ...
Ep. 156 - Building Choral Programs by Putting Students First - J. Edmund Hughes
“There’s three things we have in music: the choir, the rehearsals, and the concerts. We put the people first, not the product. There’s a lot of coaches who have this collateral damage thing about winning, and we choral directors have this colla...
