Saturday, November 2, 2024
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Alfred Newman Recital Hall
USC University Park Campus
An opportunity for students to learn how to be better leaders in their choral ensemble by focusing on exceptional repertoire under the mentorship of an expert clinician.
Deadline to register: Friday, September 20, 2024
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Choristers will participate in a festival choir of over two hundred other high school singers selected from around the Los Angeles area led by Fernando Malvar-Ruiz. Singers will attend leadership sessions focusing on the individual singer’s role in the success of a choral ensemble.
Featured director’s talk with Lynn Helding
Title: The Science Informed Choral Conductor
Lynn Helding, Professor of Practice in Vocal Arts and Opera and Coordinator of the Vocology and Voice Pedagogy program at USC, will address common myths about singing voice technique, and offer science-informed solutions for choral conductors. Helding is the author of The Musician’s Mind: Teaching, Learning & Performance in the Age of Brain Science, and the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Singing. She is a co-founder of the NATS Science-Informed Voice Pedagogy Institute, and was recognized as a “legendary figure in the field of voice pedagogy” by the Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah University, receiving their 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award.
WHAT TO EXPECT
- Performance by the USC Thornton Chamber Singers
- Rehearsals, sectionals, workshops
- Student & Chaperone Lunch
- Students and chaperones will enjoy a boxed lunch.
- Director’s Lunch
- Directors and chaperones are invited to attend the workshop and observe all of the leadership sessions. In addition, directors will be provided a special lunch session with USC Thornton School of Music choral and sacred music faculty to allow for further discussion of leadership in the choral field.
- Campus tours led by current USC students (optional)
- Information session about USC degree programs & performance opportunities
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
*Subject to change
- 8:00 AM – Registration
- 9:00 AM – Welcome
- 9:10 AM – Performance: USC Thornton Chamber Singers
- 9:30 AM – Rehearsal #1
- 11:30 AM – Lunch
- 12:15 PM – Sectionals
- 12:15 PM – Director’s Talk: “The Science Informed Choral Conductor” with Lynn Helding
- 1:30 PM – Rehearsal #2
- 3:05 PM – USC Information Session
- 3:15 PM – Performance: Choral Leadership Workshop Chorus
- 3:30 PM – Closing Remarks
- 3:35 PM – USC Campus Tours
COST
- $45 each for students (includes lunch, t-shirt, pencil, and all music)
- $20 each for directors/chaperones (includes lunch and t-shirt)
Payment can be submitted by check to:
USC Department of Choral & Sacred Music
840 W. 34th Street, MUS 416
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0851
Checks should be made out to: “USC Department of Choral and Sacred Music”
HOW TO REGISTER
Registration is OPEN NOW!
Fill out our Online Registration Form.
Email our Festival Coordinator, Marisa Bradfield marisara@usc.edu with any questions.