F1. Advanced choir directing
Direction : Brady R. ALLRED
This choir conducting workshop is open to advanced conductors who wish to go deeper into conducting analysis, study, style and gesture technique. The work will be based on a Canadian and American repertoire. It will address the different problems involved in interpretation and will suggest solutions. Participants will be able to put the suggested techniques into practice with the choir-in-residence consisting of a few singers from the “University of Utah Singers” .
Lower intermediate level of English is necessary.
Please enclose a CV with your application form
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Brady R. Allred,
former conductor of Pittsburgh Vocal Bach and of the Butler Symphony Orchestra, is currently a music professor, director of choral studies and conductor of University of Utah Artists Choral. With his choirs he received international acclaim for excellence during his tours in the USA and abroad, and won the First prize at the Marktoberdorf international chamber choir competition, and the Grand prix at the Tours Florilège Vocal. He is often invited to many conferences in the USA and takes part in major festivals like Marktoberdorf, Nancy, the Mica and Olomuc Summer Music Festivals in the Czech Republic. He is one of the very best choir conductors in the USA, and has received many conducting awards. He has also made many choral music recordings.
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F2. Directors’ Special
Direction : Régine THÉODORESCO
The Choralies offer the participants in this conductors' training course the unique opportunity to observe many top conductors working on different repertoires. After visits to workshops, participants will meet to analyse their practices and thus acquire new body communication, teaching and stylistic tools. Meetings with conductors at rehearsals and concerts will provide answers to the various questions raised by these observations. The course includes work on interpretation in all its aspects – analysis, gesture and voice – and a study of vocal issues for a choir - warming up, colour, accuracy. Participants will also be offered an individual vocal assessment. |
Régine Théodoresco,
made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres– a high French cultural award – in 2002 , is one of the major figures on today's vocal music scene. She currently teaches conducting at Rennes Conservatoire National de Region (CNR) after being a musical training professor at Lyon CNR. In 2001 she became the director of studies for the choir conducting DE - higher diploma - at the Rhône-Alpes CEFEDEM. For 15 years she was the conductor of the mixed chamber choir "Le Cantrel de Lyon", with whom she performed most of the great oratorios. She is the music director of the vocal ensemble she founded : "Calliope”, which became a professional women's choir in 2000. She is often invited to sit on the jury for various competitions (international interpretation contests, Lyon CNSM – Music Academy - , FDCA post CNSM studies etc) and is also often invited as a guest conductor by choirs and orchestras.
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