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 • 114 episodes
Choir Fam Podcast
Latest Episodes
Ep. 103 - Developing Choral Tone Through Community Building - Joel Tranquilla
“I don't have a sound that I'm trying to make the choir fit into. I'm trying to understand and uncover the palette of sounds that are in front of me and then expand our sense of what we can sound like. This happens through the community buildin...
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Season 5
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Ep. 102 - Breaking Barriers for Women-Identifying Conductors - Coreen Duffy
“Historically, in higher education and in music in general, it was a male-dominated podium expectation. When we step on the podium as women-identifying conductors, we're breaking that image. There's a long way to go, and WiCHEd is working on br...
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Season 5
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Ep. 101 - Developing Listening Skills and Fostering Empathy Through Singing - Ethan Sperry
“When people talk about what skills kids are lacking in America these days, two of the skills that come up a lot are the ability to listen to each other and have some empathy for each other. Some people would say it’s not just kids that are lac...
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Season 5
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48:07
Season 4 Wrap-Up
Thank you for listening to our show this season!!Here are the favorite choral pieces from our guests in the fourth season:St. John Passion, Johann Sebastian BachSt. Matthew Passion, Johann Sebas...
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Season 4
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19:26
Ep. 100 - Strengthening the Bond Between Composers and Choristers - Sarah Quartel
“For me, choral music is all about the people. I write for the choristers. I've gone through that phase in my life where I've written only for myself, where I had a lot of things I needed to express and every note that went on a page was for me...
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Season 4
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