Briefing for Choir Teachersincharge

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Briefing for Choir Teachers-in-charge

• Thursday 16 Oct 2008
• 3pm
• CCAB Music Studio

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Agenda

• Managerial Course for Teachers
• SYF 2009 Central Judging of Choirs
• World Youth Choral Festival
• Q A

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Managerial Course for Teachers

• Date 12 to 14 November 2008
• Venue CCAB
• Class size 12 20
• Objectives
• to address the needs of newly appointed choir
  teachers and/or
• teachers who would like a fresh perspective on
  planning for choir activities.

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Managerial Course for Teachers

• Participants are expected to complete the
  following tasks
• Submit and present a proposal for the
  organisation of a choir camp
• Submit and present a proposal for the
  organisation of a choir concert
• Conduct a combined schools camp/concert between
  January and June 2009.

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Managerial Course for Teachers
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SYF 2009 Central Judging of Choirs

• Oct 08 Set piece released
• Jan 09 Registration for SYF
• Feb 09 Dialogue Session
• Mar 09 Balloting and briefing
• Apr 09 SYF Central Judging
• May 09 Master classes with adjudicators

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SYF 2009 Central Judging of Choirs

• Things to note
• Set piece purchase one copy for each
  participants
• Choice pieces one must either be an original
  composition written by a composer of Asian origin
  or an Asian folk or traditional work.
• Duration 8 minutes

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World Youth Choral Festival

• Date 9 13 Dec 2008
• Venue Victoria Concert Hall
• The World Youth Choral Festival is an extension
• of the CEP Choral Festival. Combining both
• convention and performance elements, it aims to
• reach out to singers in Singapore and around the
• world.

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Introduction

• Highlights of the Festival
• Festival Choir
• Concerts performed by local and overseas choirs
• Lectures series
• Choral reading sessions
• Workshops by overseas clinicians
• Festival prog 14 oct.doc

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Clinicians/Conductors

• Bob Chilcott (UK)
• Conductor of Combined Festival Choir
• Masterclasses for Primary Schools
• Workshops
• Introduction to Aesops Fables
• Introduction to Jazz Folksongs
• Composer of Can You Hear Me?,
• Principal Guest Conductor
• of the BBC singers, Mr Bob Chilcott
• has worked in 23 countries on six
• continents, conducting many leading
• choirs.

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Clinicians/Conductors

• Lim Yau (Singapore)
• Conductor of Combined Festival Choir
• Mr Lim Yau, Cultural Medallion Award
• winner in 1990, is Resident Conductor of the
• Singapore Symphony Orchestra as well as
• Music Director of the Singapore Symphony
• Chorus and the Singapore Symphony
• Childrens Choir.

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Clinicians/Conductors

• Meng Da Peng (China)
• Masterclasses for Primary Schools
• Mr Meng Da Peng is Artistic Director
• and Resident Conductor of
• Central Radio Youth Choir. He is a
• member of the IFCM Conductors
• Committee and counsel
• member of the China Childrens
• Music Committee. He is also an
• established Adjudicator at many
• choral festivals.

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Clinicians/Conductors

• Eugene Rogers (USA)
• Conductor of Festival Choir (SATB)
• Workshops
• Sounds of the New World Music of Emerging
  American Composers
• Improvising in the Rehearsal to Create Your
  Dream Sound
• Dr Eugene Rogers is the Director of Choral
  Activities at Macalester College in St. Paul,
  Minnesota and has extensive experience working
  with choirs of all ages and levels of ability. He
  was named Most Influential Educator in 2000 and
  2001.

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Clinicians/Conductors

• Kari Turunen (Finland)
• Conductor of Festival Choir (SSA)
• Workshops
• Contemporary Nordic Choral Music for Descant
  Voices inspired by folk music
• Ethno-pop Ambitious Choral Music is the
  combination possible?
• Mr Kari Turunen, winner of the Conductor Prize at
  the
• 2003 Marktoberdorf Chamber Choir competition, is
  a
• member of Lumen Valo, a vocal ensemble that is
  one
• of the driving forces on the Finnish early music
  scene.
• He is also the Chairman of the Finnish Choral
• Directors' Association (FCDA).

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Registration

• The Festival fee for the 5-day programme is
  S200.00
• and includes entrance fees to all meals,
  workshops
• and concerts as stated in the programme.
• Concert tickets are available from all SISTIC
  outlets at
• 10 (before SISTIC charge) from 29 Oct 2008.
• Details can be found at the WYCF website
• www.moe.edu.sg/ccab/wycf.htm

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Q A
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THANK YOU!