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Leading Young Voices
Date: 28 - 30 May 2007
Time: 5.00pm Friday 9 February – 12.00pm Sunday 11 February 2007
Location: Farncombe Estate, Broadway, Worcestershire
A residential weekend course for people who wish to develop skills in
This course (rescheduled as a result of the snow in February) provided an opportunity for people to learn about leading singing with young people. It was ideal for primary school music co-ordinators, music teachers and community musicians interested in extending their skills. It was led by Carol Green and Jon Payne, two choral conductors who specialise in working with young voices.
During the course, we sometimes worked together in one group and also split into smaller groups to look at different topics in more depth. The course covered working with different age groups: Early Years, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 and more advanced singers. It explored the skills and concepts required to develop young voices, teach general musicianship and work towards giving expressive performances. Participants had the chance to learn a wide range of songs and other musical games and activities. Each participant received a pack of information, music and teaching ideas to take away.
The course was linked to the Worcestershire Young Voices programme, which, over the following year, aimed to establish clusters of singing groups at Area Music Centres in Malvern, Redditch and Bromsgrove. Some participants were given the chance to lead singing groups in the Worcestershire Young Voices programme, but we welcomed participants who were not directly involved in the programme, who would also find it very beneficial.
The course was supported by Worcestershire Youth Music and the National Foundation for Youth Music and was run in partnership with Singworks and MusicLeader West Midlands.
The course fee was £100. Participants were entitled to attend two top-up training days, one in May 2007 and the other in Autumn 2007 for no additional fee.
The course took place in the picturesque setting of the Farncombe Estate, Broadway, Worcestershire (for details see www.cotswoldconferencecentre.co.uk). Meals and accommodation in ensuite single bedrooms were included in the course fee.
Places were limited, and early booking was recommended.
Carol Green
Carol Green is well established as a choral conductor having founded three successful choirs, which she has conducted for a number of years. She trained as a choral conductor through the national organisation Sing for Pleasure, and is now a Sing for Pleasure conducting tutor. She works for Worcestershire Youth Music as a singing teacher and animateur for Ready Steady Sing. She is an Advisory Teacher for the Voices Foundation, where her role is to support primary school teachers in delivering an effective music curriculum. She has also worked for Singworks in delivering ‘Melody Monkey’ projects with Early Years practitioners. In 2005 she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship enabling her to travel to Hungary and Canada to research methods of achieving choral excellence.
Jon Payne
Jon Payne is an organist, choir director, and choral animateur based in Birmingham. He studied music at the University of Surrey in Guildford and subsequently gained degree qualifications in music, psychology and composition. His first post was as Director of the Wenhaston Boys’ Choir in Suffolk – a choir which was used regularly as the boys’ voices group for Aldeburgh Festival productions. He was then Organ Scholar at Norwich Cathedral for two years before taking up a post as vocal and choral animateur in Norfolk. He moved to the West Midlands in 2004, firstly as a youngchoirs choral animateur for the Borough of Solihull, and latterly as Project Manager for sound futures, Birmingham Youth Music Action Zone.
CONTACT
Cathy Dew
Email cathy.dew@singworks.net
Tel. 01905 763412
Price: £100
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