SUMMER 2009 MUSIC EDUCATION WORKSHOPS

• Workshop Descriptions:
  • Teaching Improvisation: How to Get Started
  • Choral Conducting and Rehearsal Techniques
  • Culture, Musicianship and the Orff Process
  • Moving and Singing Musically—Multiple Intelligences Indeed!
    
    
• New Mexico Kodály Institute Offerings
  
  
• Registration Options, Costs and Housing

Choral Conducting and Rehearsal Techniques

Jo-Michael Scheibe
June 10-12 • W 1:00-4:30, RF 8:30-4:30

This course will investigate effective conducting posture and gesturing that easily communicate sensitive musical ideas to ensembles. There will be discussions on rehearsal management and pacing, as well as new music reading sessions. Participants may receive individual, practical conducting instruction should they wish.

JO-MICHAEL SCHEIBE, D.M.A., chairs the Thornton School of Music’s Department of Choral and Sacred Music at the University of Southern California, where he conducts the USC Chamber Singers, teaches choral conducting and choral methods, and supervises the graduate and undergraduate choral program. He also serves as National President Elect of the American Choral Directors Association. Ensembles under his leadership have sung at six national ACDA conventions, as well as two national conventions of the Music Educators National Conference. He is in frequent demand nationally and internationally as a clinician, conductor and adjudicator for choruses at the university, community college, community and secondary levels.