Course Information for New Brunswick Early Music Festival 2011
Vocal Pedagogy (1 Credit)
Students will study breathing, phonation, resonance and registration as well as issues such as vocal health, vocal hygiene and voice disorders that arise from misuse of the voice.
Vocal Pedagogy Practicum (1 Credit)
Students will engage on a practical level with students from the real world, under faculty observation. Students receive feedback on teaching methods, preparation, technical vocabulary and repertoire.
Baroque Opera History (3 Credits-counts as Musicology Upper Level Elective)
An intensive course on the history of opera from the Florentine Camerata to the Enlightenment.
Solo Song LIterature (2 Credits)
An academic and historical survey of solo song from medieval to contemporary styles.
Vocal Ensemble (1 Credit)
Students will rehearse and perform selected repertoire from the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods.
Vocal Performance Seminar: Baroque Opera Project (1 Credit)
Students will prepare their role before arrival in St Andrews, and engage in musical coaching and stage movement specifically related to the baroque period. STRICTLY BY AUDITION.
All classes can either be taken for college credit through Millikin University or taken as Adult Enrichment Credits (Auditing) at a reduced rate.
THE NEW BRUNSWICK EARLY MUSIC COMMUNITY CHOIR, Matthew Leese, Conductor
Join Millikin University students and faculty in
performing Handel's choral
masterpiece JUDAS MACCABEUS
Ages 14 and
up NO AUDITION
NECESSARY
Rehearsals: Sunday,
June 5 4pm-6pm, Tuesdays: June 7,
14, 21 7pm-9pm, Saturday, June 25: Dress Rehearsal 2pm-4.30pm/
7.30pm Concert
Choir Course Fee (includes scores): TBA Mail your check (payable
to the St. Andrews Arts Council) to: Early Music Community Choir, St. Andrews
Arts Council/99 Augustus St. /St. Andrews NB E5B 2E9. Include your name,
mailing address to receive your music, email, telephone and your voice part
(Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass). For more information contact Matthew Lees e at mleese@millikin.edu or Sharon Crowther at
tricrow@nb.sympatico.ca/506
529 4636 or the Arts Council at 506/529 4692 summerschool@standrewsartscouncil.nb.ca
2011 Application Information:
Community Chorus: Please use the contact form on the 'Contact Us' page to indicate your interest, or call the director, Matthew Leese at (+1) 217 390 4480, or the St. Andrews Arts Council at 506 529 4692
College Students: Please contact Matthew Leese at mattleese@gmail.com or Dr. Daniel Carberg at dcarberg@millikin.edu for more information. Enquire using the 'Contact Us' page.
NB College Students: A special scholarship will be available in 2011 for Exceptional New Brunswick Singers to participate in the festival. Enquire using the 'Contact Us' page.
PLEASE FILL IN CONTACT FORM on the 'Contact Us' page for more information.
