Special Festival 500 Panel Presentation
Growing Choral Communities
Festival 500 brings together international choral leaders for a panel on issues and challenges in building choirs and choral organizations. Learn how national and international organizations are providing resources, support and professional development for conductors, choirs and managers. This panel presentation is open to all Festival and Symposium participants.
Fred Sjöberg (Sweden)
Vice-President of International Federation of Choral Music (IFCM), Vice-President of Europa Cantat, Conductor of Örebro Chamber Choir, Director of the Swedish International Choral Centre Örebro, first conductor to conduct the three major international youth choirs (World Youth Choir, World Chamber Choir and European Youth Choir)
Fred has a breadth of international experience that is both artistic and organizational. He is a builder of choirs, choral organizations, choral events (Lund International Choral Festival), foundations (Eric Ericson Foundation) and professional development programs (IFCM’s Training for Young Choral Managers program).
http://www.ifcm.net
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Sonja Greiner (Germany)
Secretary General of Europa Cantat - European Federation of Young Choirs, member of the Executive Board of the International Music Council (IMC)
Sonja brings a wealth of experience in choir and festival management and in organizing choral events and professional development for choirs, singers and conductors. She participated in the development of the Young Event Management Program (YEMP), offered for the first time at Europa Cantat XVII Utrecht (2009).
http://www.europacantat.mehrwert.de
Patricia Abbott (Canada)
Past Executive Director of the Association of Canadian Choral Communities (ACCC), Artistic Director of Canadian Amateur Musicians/Musiciens amateurs du Canada (CAMMAC), Festival 500 Ambassador
Pat has been involved in the developing and nurturing of choirs and choral societies in North America throughout her career. She is a mentor and model for many young Canadian conductors and managers.
http://www.choralcanada.org
Ann Meier Baker (USA)
President and CEO of Chorus America
Ann has more than 20 years experience in the arts and in education, with an emphasis on nonprofit management, governance, fundraising and organization development. Under her leadership, Chorus America has developed new programs designed to address management, board and artistic issues (Chorus Leadership Series, Chorus Management Institute, Singer Network).
http://www.chorusamerica.org
Alejandro Daniel Garavano (Argentina)
Professor at the National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco, Vice-President of IFCM, Founder of Fundación CIC, Chair of the 9th World Symposium on Choral Music (Puerto Madryn, Patagonia, 2011)
Daniel’s role in developing choirs and choral organizations/events in South America is outstanding. Fundación CIC is a model non-profit organization that provides support and training for the development of choral communities in Argentina.
http://www.fundacioncic.org
Invited Keynote Presenters
The Phenomenon of Singing International Symposium VIII
July 10 - 13, 2011
John August Pamintuan is a winner of composition prizes from Tours, France 2009 and Tokyo, Japan 2008. Recognized by the American Federation of Musicians as an artist of sustained international acclaim, John has written over 200 commissioned works which are widely performed in international competitions. His music depicts indigenous music practices and traditions that are given rich sonorities, rhythmic drive, effusion of character, and fervency of expression.
Mark Anthony Carpio, conductor, lecturer, vocal coach and countertenor soloist, is currently the choirmaster of the critically-acclaimed University of the Philippines Madrigal Singers (Madz). In 2009, the Madz were designated UNESCO Artist for Peace in recognition of their contribution to extend UNESCO’s message of peace and tolerance, in particular their efforts to promote dialogue and understanding among peoples in Southeast Asia. Mark will speak about the phenomenal growth of and love for choral music in the Philippines and the influence of the Madz on Philippine and Asian choral communities.
Scott McCoy is a professor of voice and pedagogy and Director of the Presser Music Voice Laboratory at Westminster Choir College. His research in the areas of voice anatomy, physiology and acoustical analysis has led to the publication of Your Voice: An Inside View (2004), a multimedia voice science and pedagogy text used around the world. In addition to maintaining an active singing career, Scott is President of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and Associate Editor of the Journal of Singing. If you are a singer, a voice teacher or a choral conductor, you will not want to miss the opportunity to hear Scott speak about the phenomenon of the voice.
Bob Chilcott has enjoyed a three-fold musical career: a singer (The King’s Singers), a conductor (Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers and guest conductor in 23 countries on six continents), and a composer (over 100 pieces published by Oxford University Press). Given his vast experience with choral singing around the globe, Bob will talk about the state of choral music-making in the world with a special emphasis on the communicative and motivational aspects of text... from the perspectives of the singer, the composer, and the conductor.
Kate Munger is a singer/songwriter who has led community singing for over three decades. In 2000, she founded the first Threshold Choir in the San Francisco Bay area for women who are called to sing at the bedsides of people who are dying, in coma, children in hospital, and with women who are incarcerated. Today there are Threshold Choirs in 100 communities in the US, Canada, Spain, Mexico, the UK, and Australia. For Kate, the voice, as the original human instrument, is a true and gracious vehicle for compassion and comfort. Listen to Kate relate how singers share the sacred gifts of their voices at life’s thresholds.
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Kellie Walsh, conductor
Lady Cove Women's Choir, one of Canada's leading choral ensembles, strives to push musical and creative boundaries of choral music with new artistic and community-based choral projects. In a multimedia lecture-performance, this internationally-acclaimed and award-winning ensemble explores relationships between indigenous music of Newfoundland and Labrador and the growth of choral communities. Evolving from research and the exploration of indigenous and contemporary musical, poetic, visual and dance traditions, this series of commissioned pieces illustrates the creation of new choral contexts and performance practices. Canadian composers such as Imant Raminsh, James Rolfe, Stephen Hatfield and Christos Hatzis are featured in this presentation. You will not want to miss this opportunity to hear past and present voices and traditions of this place, Newfoundland and Labrador.
(This presentation is presented in collaboration with the 41st World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, July 13-19, 2011)
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