
Choir Fam Podcast
The Choir Fam Podcast is a venue for conversations about the current state of choral music. Hosts Dean Luethi and Matthew Myers seek to bring the worldwide choral community closer together through their discussions with a variety of guests who work with choir in its various forms. The goal of the podcast is to provide listeners with interesting tidbits of knowledge they could use in day-to-day choral rehearsals and to bring light to the ways that issues in the choral field are being observed and addressed.
Podcasting since 2022 • 140 episodes
Choir Fam Podcast
Latest Episodes
Ep. 128 - Building Emotional Intelligence Through Choral Singing - Jeremy Brown
“My mantra for my teaching is: I want to create good humans while also creating good musicians. I tell every ensemble that on the first day of school. What they care about is 'Does Mr. Brown see me? Does he value me? Does he care for me?' Then ...
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Ep. 127 - Reconsidering Pedagogy to Support Neurodivergent Singers - Peter Allen Haley
“Start with the way that you structure your rehearsal, your classroom, your feedback. In terms of feedback, we talk about not giving people more than three pieces of information to work on. Working memory is affected by ADHD in particular. ‘Her...
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Season 6
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Ep. 126 - Balancing the Needs of Our Singers and Our Institutions - Kristina Ploeger-Hekmatpanah
“We’re often put in positions that make us uncomfortable with the inner struggle of how to keep our job and have our program recognized enough to get support versus how to carry out our true mission with students. If I’m trying to continue to f...
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Season 6
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47:29

Season 5 Wrap-Up
Thank you for listening to our show this season!!Here are the favorite choral pieces from our guests in the fifth season:Christmas Oratorio, Johann Sebastian BachMass in B Minor, Johann Sebas...
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Season 5
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15:56

Ep. 125 - Inspiring Choral Skills Through International Competition - Mark Anthony Carpio
“More competitions are being organized, and it has become a way for these conductors and choirs to work on their skills. By joining these competitions, the rate of their progress accelerated. People join choirs for different reasons. For most o...
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Season 5
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