Choir Fam Podcast
Choir Fam Podcast
Latest Episodes
Ep. 168 - Scaffolding Learning for All Levels of Experience - Brandon Boyd
"Working with the MTC Women’s Prison Glee Club was life-changing, taking women who had never been in a choir, teaching them about head voice, consonants, vowels, and diction and all the musical things that we talk about all the time in choir. W...
Ep. 167 - Rehearsal Transitions as Opportunities for Singer Engagement - Morgan Luttig
“Transitions are key to all of the rehearsals that I run. We lose a lot of very valuable rehearsal time when we switch from one task to the next, whether they’re taking their music out or they start talking to a neighbor. Every time we switch t...
Ep. 166 - Achieving High-Level Artistry with Community Choirs - Matt Hill
“The work that we do as choral people matters. The art matters. The music is the engine that drives the experience for everybody. In community organizations, they yearn for high level artistry. They don’t want it to be a hobby. They want to be ...
Ep. 165 - Building upon Traditions in a New Choral Position - Bella Garcia y Lauer
“My predecessor is very, very well-known, an amazing choral director, and he’s still in the area. I’m trying to establish myself as the new director following such a well-loved choral director. My colleagues and he himself set me up really well...
Ep. 164 - Creating Accessible and Engaging Compositions - Ryan Main
"The most important advice I ever received is that you cannot call a piece 'done' until you have sung through every part, beginning to end, and 90% of the time changed at least one thing because of that sing-through. I think I'm a good music re...
