Choir Rehearsal Techniques

Benjamin Geier is an American choir conducting specialist.

In his choir conducting techniques course, he will teach you how to lead a choir, from the preparation and warm-up, going through the score preparation, to the final performance of the piece.

You will have the opportunity to train on three music pieces: “Hush Nation” by Thula Sizwe, “Deep River” and “Ave Verum Corpus” by Mozart.

This choir rehearsal techniques course is divided into three main parts: Vocal technique, rehearsal preparation and piece practice.

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The main concepts taught

Prononciation

Breathing techniques

Score preparation

Gesture

Vowel modification

Warm-up

Vocal techniques

The program proposed by Benjamin Geier

In this course, Benjamin Geier will talk about the rules and responsibilities of the conductor in a children choir: voice warm-up, tone quality, posture, breathing, gesture, prononciation, rehearsal techniques and preparation.

Chapter	Details
Vocal Techniques	Voice warm-up and vocal technique
	Tone quality and vowel modification Techniques to broden children’s voices
	Posture, breathing and phonation Breathing, inhalation, phonation
Rehearsal Preparation	Check the gestures Psychological conducting
	Latin pronunciation and pure vowels
	Score preparation Score analysis and preparation
Piece practice	Music practice “Hush Nation” by Thula Sizwe
	“Deep River”
	“Ave Verum Corpus” by Mozart Rehearsal plan, breathing, vowels, intonation

Lesson plan

Chapter	Details
Vocal Techniques	Voice warm-up and vocal technique
	Tone quality and vowel modification Techniques to broden children’s voices
	Posture, breathing and phonation Breathing, inhalation, phonation
Rehearsal Preparation	Check the gestures Psychological conducting
	Latin pronunciation and pure vowels
	Score preparation Score analysis and preparation
Piece practice	Music practice “Hush Nation” by Thula Sizwe
	“Deep River”
	“Ave Verum Corpus” by Mozart Rehearsal plan, breathing, vowels, intonation

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A word from your teacher

Improve the students understanding of the voice and its applications and challenge the student to achieve their best performance. Many times when a conductor has a good gesture, there is no need to speak, it’s simply in hands.