Participants will be welcome to practise together with others in the group conducting sessions. There will also be opportunities for practical conducting alone in front of the group and all participants will be encouraged to form a choir for this purpose and for demonstration purposes.

More informations about the programme here!

From 9:30-13:00!!!

Together, we enjoy singing the songs we all know and love: from folk to pop to jazz or even techno… if it sounds, we can sing it! But what if the music we would like to sing is not at all vocal? What if it is orchestral music, or a violin sonata, or piano music? And now that we are setting challenges for ourselves, what if we were to take the pinnacle of keyboard music: Bach’s Goldberg Variations and sing them in Bach’s style! Could it be done? Come and discover how this famous keyboard work has taken on a new form: Bach’s Goldberg Variations, for mixed choir, with soloist and baroque orchestra.

Isn´t it great that with our voice we have beeen given such a beautiful instrument? To have the possibilty to use and to keep it we should be as careful as possible. In case of boys this is true especially in the period when it changes to a man´s voice - let´s think about how to do this best.

Speaker: Hirvo SURVA (EE)

Exercises and choice of good repertoire.

Are you looking for modern arrangements of timeless German folk songs? Volker Hempfling edited two interesting choir collections: one for SATB, one for equal voices. With “Lore-Ley”, you can include exciting songs to your concert programme, arranged either in a traditional and easy-to-sing way, or in modern ones – every in slightly “jazzy” versions. Special settings include modern elements such as sprechgesang or onomatopoeias. Come and discover a couple of the most exciting songs!

Rehearsing with children requires a complex combination of voice-training, solfège (rhythm/pulse, melody, harmony), interpretation and learning to be independent. Where do we start and what do children need from us conductors to help them open up for real musicianship and musical freedom.
A practical workshop for music teachers and conductors of children’s and youth choirs.

"For me, the most beautiful instrument is the human voice" liked to say my father, the Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000), pupil of Respighi and teacher of Ligeti and Kurtag. Impassioned by poetry and beautiful texts, sensible to tongues sounds and their pulsation, he composed many oratorios, cantatas, masses, songs and more than 200 choruses in 18 different languages.

It is often hard to get the best arrangements of the pop songs that you want to perform with your choir. Do it by yourself! Tips for composers who want to create a pop-rock sound from a choir arrangement and for conductors to choose good scores.

During this atelier the members of the atelier will make their own arrangements of popular tunes or folk songs suited to their own singing abilities and sound. Jonathan Rathbone (former director and arranger for the Swingle Singers) will help the group create their own arrangements based on their own ideas and improvisations. As nothing will be written down, this will mean music reading will not be necessary. Just a joy of singing and the ability to respond to what you hear.

A very short conducting seminar for conductors not yet familiar with this topic. A practical help for choral conductors who are planning on conducting an oratorio (including recitatives). Short and easy musical examples by Bach, Mendelssohn, Fank Martin and others.

Temperate and natural intonation are quite different in practise. So here is an analysis of these differences measured in cent. The understanding of this can be useful to solve many problems connected to musical performing.

Come and discover new choral repertoire published by Oxford University , coveringdifferent styles of music for a range of choir-types, from church to school, from large choral society to vocal group.