Building a Healthy and Expressive Choir
with Dr. Elroy Friesen, University of Manitoba
This is participatory singing and movement workshop that will lead you to explore the joy of singing with others while creating meaningful connections. Activities will promote strengthening of relationships between singers, finding your own healthy and free voice, and building choirs that are intentional and passionate in communication.
Come prepared to sing!
Workshop Objectives:
- Learn how to communicate with intention and passion in an ensemble setting.
- Learn new ideas and activities that free your voice and support healthy vocal technique; ideas that can easily be taken back to your own choir.
- Get experiences that build intimacy, trust, and awareness of others in a choral setting.
Come prepared to sing!
Workshop Objectives:
- Learn how to communicate with intention and passion in an ensemble setting.
- Learn new ideas and activities that free your voice and support healthy vocal technique; ideas that can easily be taken back to your own choir.
- Get experiences that build intimacy, trust, and awareness of others in a choral setting.
Dr. Elroy Friesen
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Described as “innovative, expressive, and dynamic,” Elroy Friesen is Director of Choral Studies at the University of Manitoba where he conducts numerous choirs, and teaches graduate conducting. His award-winning ensembles tour nationally and internationally, and are frequently recorded and broadcasted by the CBC.
Dr. Friesen studied at the University of Manitoba (B. Mus., B. Ed., M. Mus.) and at the University of Illinois (DMA), receiving numerous scholarships and grants from the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts. He is Artistic Director and co-founder of a new professional choir, Schooner Cove Singers, in B.C., and he is co-founder of fikamusik, a Choral Conducting Intensive at the U of M. |
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