Summer School for Choral Conductors of School, Childrens' and Youth Choirs [Corfu, 2-8/7/19]

MUSIC DEPARTMENT, IONIAN UNIVERSITY, CORFU – GREECE

JULY 2-8, 2019

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

GUEST PROFESSOR – The renowned British conductor of children’s and youth choirs

JOY HILL, Conductor of the Chamber Choir and RCMJD Parry Voices at

Royal College of Music Junior Department

Joy Hill specializes in the pedagogy of children’s choirs particularly the age group of 8 – 18 years. She applies an original and innovative method to the building of young choirs and to the healthy vocal development of young voices. The choirs she has directed for many years, are considered to be leading choral groups in the UK.

The teaching material covers the following areas:

α) Lab choir (SSA) ages 12 – 17 years, with Joy Hill as clinician

b) Vocal development for young Choirs. Lectures by Joy Hill

c) Choral Conducting Techniques, under the supervision of Joy Hill

d) Choral Rehearsal with the participant’s SATB choir, with conductor Joy Hill

During the duration of the Summer Academy there will be concerts of youth choirs in the evenings and a final concert of the participants’ choir July 7^th conducted by Joy Hill

DAILY SCHEDULE:

10.00-11.15 Choral Pedagogy with children’s lab choir

11.15-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-12.45 Vocal technique for young voices, issues relating to intonation, rehearsal strategy

12.45-13.00 Questions and discussion

16.00-17.00 Conducting Technique level I (free, non-compulsory lab)

17.00-18.00 Conducting Technique level II (free, non-compulsory lab)

18.00-19.15 Choral Conducting Techniques with Hill and SATB choir

19.15-19.30 Coffee Break

19.30-21.00 Choral rehearsal of the SATB participants’ choir.

21.15-22.00 Choral Friendship Concerts (free admission for participants)

Sunday July 7^th

20.30 Participant’s Closing Concert at Ionian Academy

Monday July 8^th Departure

PARTICIPATION FEE: 250 Euro

University lodging: 15 euros per day (limited number of rooms, upon registration priority, after application acceptance and fee payment).

APPLICATION DEADLINE MAY 19^th 2019 MAY 29^th 2019

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

Application form to be sent to: chortherini@gmail.com or FAX: ++30 26610 26024

Participation fee to be sent to: PIRAEUS BANK GREECE: ΙΒΑΝ GR 9801724510005451059102893 BIC: PRBGRAA

STATEMENT: “For Choral Conducting Summer School” on bank slip.

For further information, please contact: +30 26610 53284 Professor Emeritus Dr. Caldi, or e-mail: chortherini@gmail.com

Director: Dr. Miranda Caldi, Professor Emeritus Ionian University

University lodging: 15 euros per day (limited number of rooms, upon registration priority, after application acceptance and fee payment).

Joy's Hill Short CV

Joy Hill is a member of staff at the Royal College of Music Junior Department London where she conducts the Chamber Choir (since 2001) and RCMJD Parry Voices and formerly directed choirs at the internationally acclaimed Purcell School. She is the UK representative on the World Choir Council for Interkultur and was a member of the Artistic Committee for the World Youth Choir.

She was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study choral conducting and choir training in Sweden and won the Vancouver Chamber Choir Scholarship to study conducting with Jon Washburn in Canada. In recognition of her work with choirs in the Baltic States she was awarded an artist abroad bursary from Arts Council England to work at the Choir School and Cathedral in Kaunas, Lithuania. Joy was Senior Lecturer in Music and Music Education at the University of London UCL Institute of Education and a member of the Centre for Performance Science at the Royal College of Music; she is a published author in the Oxford Handbook of Singing.

Joy specializes in presenting workshops and master classes that explore the art of building young choirs through the development of repertoire and by working creatively within rehearsals as well as in performance. She has worked with the African Children’s’ Choir in Uganda and performed with them alongside her Royal College of Music Junior Department choir before Her Majesty the Queen for Commonwealth Day at Westminster Abbey. In South Africa she worked with school choirs at the Stellenbosch University International Choral Conducting Symposium, Voices of Africa, and in Japan worked with The Wakayama Children’s Chorus.

Joy works extensively as adjudicator and guest conductor in the UK, where she was a judge for the Choir of the Year, and in Europe, the Baltic states and Beijing China. She has presented lectures at leading choral conducting institutions including the Yale School of Music USA Choral Conducting department and at the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Hungary.

I have always marveled at her unique ability to inspire singers to produce outstanding performances of great intelligence and musicality.
Composer Gabriel Jackson