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Regarding MusicEp. 31 - Building Community Within a Choir with Cathrie YuenCathrie Yuen is a Vancouver based choral conductor. Our discussion in this episode of Regarding Music focused on such topics as building a community within a choir, rehearsing and performing choral music in different languages, putting one’s musical work on social media, as well as some ideas and advice for young conductors.
2024-09-1455 min
ChorumEpisode 8 - The instrumentalists: How singing in choir improves the musicality of instrumentalists.Cathrie interviews two recent music graduates, Colin Jamieson (clarinetist) and Andrew Whiteside (pianist), who actively participate in choral singing. They are going to share details about how singing in choir has improved their musicality as instrumentalists.2020-07-3143 minChorumEpisode 7 - Choir meets photography: A discussion with David Seeram on interdisciplinary artHave you ever wondered how you can incorporate different art forms into your choir performance?
In our next episode, Dave Seeram, Editor-in-Chief of PhotographyBB is going to share his experience in collaborating with a virtual choir performance. He will also give us some useful tips on enhancing your visual images.2020-06-1023 minChorumEpisode 6 - The new era for choirs: a conversation on virtual choirs with Elise NaccaratoVirtual choirs have become the new trend in the choral world recently. In this episode, I interview Elise Naccarato, an Ontario based conductor, who produced an amazing virtual choir project with her choir, Myriad. Whether you are a fan of virtual choir or not, we hope this discussion will provide you with some new insights.2020-04-1734 minChorumEpisode 5 - Vocal techniques for choir: a vocal technique lecture with Caleb WooCaleb Woo, a well accomplished singer, voice teacher and choral conductor from Hong Kong, is going to address some common vocal concerns in choral singing.2020-04-0333 minChorumEpisode 4 - Keep singing: the impact of coronavirus to the choral community.No matter which part of the world you are in, everyone is under the influence of COVID-19. Anna-Marie Ryan and Chloe Thiessen share their experience of how they are impacted by the outbreak of the virus in the past few days as musicians. More importantly, how we can face this crisis in a positive way and support each other in the choral community. Link to the Canadian Chamber Choir album: https://canadianchamberchoir.bandcamp.com/album/seasons-of-life-and-landscape2020-03-1644 minChorumEpisode 3 - Gardens: a sacred oratorio. An interview with the Canadian composer, Dr. David SquiresIn episode 3, Dr. David Squires will introduce his new choral-orchestral work, Garden: a sacred oratorio. He will share about how he came up with the idea for the oratorio; the way he put together the text; and some of the musical elements hidden in the piece.
For more information about the premiere, please visit the link below.
https://facebook.com/events/s/gardens-a-sacred-oratorio/1042948519401518/?ti=icl2020-03-1332 minChorumEpisode 2 - Considering Matthew Shepard: Discussing Choral Music and Social Justice with Andrew HonIn this episode, we are flying to Montreal, QC to interview Andrew Hon from McGill University.
Andrew and I are going to discuss about the relationship between choral music and social justice, based on the piece “Considering Matthew Shepard” by Craig Hella Johnson.2020-02-1744 minChorumEpisode 1 - Breath of Life: the relationship between singing and yogaLeah Cameron, a classically trained lyric soprano and an avid group fitness instructor, is the guest in this episode to share about the correlation between singing and yoga. We are going to discuss how these two activities are benefitting each other and the positive effect on our general health.2020-02-0838 minChorumChorum (Trailer)2020-02-0700 min