Advanced Choral Directing by Suzi Digby OBE

£19.99

Suzi Digby OBE, renowned choral director, awarded by the queen
For choral conductors wanting excellence
Pro rehearsal techniques and listening games
Conducting gesture techniques

What You'll Learn

Do you conduct a good choir, but are not sure how to conduct with more impact? You want your choir to sing even better but repeatedly hammering the correct notes on a piano doesn’t work for you? Suzi has the answers!

Advanced Choral Directing

This course gives you an in-depth insight into Suzi’s philosophy that has made her the highly respected and renowned choral director for advanced ensembles that she is. She also gives you top tricks of the trade that she has developed over years, access to her toolkit that will lead your choir to become an ensemble that are incredibly responsive to each other, and you, and that will help them develop a wonderful range of vocal tone. Most importantly, your choir will listen like they never have before.This conducting masterclass course will cover the following areas:

Suzi’s Philosophy
Repertoire
Rehearsal Objectives
Suzi’s Toolkit
Introduction to Score Preparation
Rehearsal Techniques
Listening Games
Gesture (Prepare Your Left Hand) & Leave Your Singers Pliable
Preparing Your Right Hand

Your Maestro Teacher

Suzi Digby OBE is a British choral director of the greatest repute and respected as an astonishing music educator. She has the ability to connect with people around her, inspire them incredibly, and then, with kindness and love, she demands and achieves excellence from all that have the honour to work with her. Suzi began singing at the age of 3.

She talks about the greatest live experiences in her career from Beirut to Soweto, to conducting a scratch youth Messiah in the Royal Albert Hall with 2000 young singers. Her final pearl of wisdom? “Keep your ego out. You have to be true to yourself and have enough self-esteem that you can be vulnerable and authentic. If you essentially don’t love people, there’s a problem and that will always seep out.”

She is a visiting professor at the University of Southern California for Choral Studies. She has presented for BBC Wales on “BBC Cardiff Singer of the World” competition and has adjudicated for the BBC’s “Last Choir Standing”. She is a past president of ISM and former Acting Music Director for Queen’s College, Cambridge. Venues that she has conducted are numerous and very significant: The Royal Albert Hall, St Martin in the Fields, King’s College Cambridge, Glastonbury main stage, Hyde Park, O2 and many besides. Orchestras that have performed under her direction include the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Mozart Players, English Concert Orchestra, Brandenburg Festival Orchestra and more. She was the official conductor for the Rolling Stones.

Photo credit: Fran Marshall of Marshall Light Studios

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