The Concord Community Music School’s Voice Department invites the public to take part in its annual series of workshops on vocal technique and performance, April 6 - 9. All sessions are free, open to the public, and designed to reach all ages and levels of singers, including members of high school and community choruses and theater groups, voice students and teachers.  All workshops take place at the Concord Community Music School at 23 Wall Street in downtown Concord.

The workshops cover a variety of topics including Musical Theater, Harmony, Jazz Vocals, German Lieder and Gilbert and Sullivan.  For those interested in the physiology of vocal production, otolaryngologist Dr. Warren Emley will explore the effects of aging on the human voice and its effects on the singer. All other sessions are led by voice department faculty.

Worshop Weeks, free and open to the public, are held throughout the year by the Music School's faculty.  The String Department will hold a workshop series May 4 - 6. Call the Music School for more information, 603-228-1196, or visit the website http://www.ccmusicschool.org.

The full schedule for the Voice Department Workshops with instructors is listed below:

Monday, April 6, 2009

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm:                       
Gilbert & Sullivan Master Class – Mark Andrew Cleveland
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm:
The Singer as Actor – Jane Berlin Pauley
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm:
Jazz Vocals and “Scat-singing”– Peggo Horstmann Hodes and Tom Robinson, jazz piano
 
Tuesday, April 7, 2009

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm:
German Diction Workshop - Andrea Veal
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm:
Healthy Voice Management for Older Voices  – Ellen Nordstrom Baer

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm:
A Cappella Harmonizing – Hannah Schramm Murray
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm:
The Physiology of the Voice – Dr. Warren Emley

Thursday, April 9, 2009

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm:
Choral Conducting Techniques – Emily Jaworski (open for observation only)
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm:
Successful Audition Techniques – Ellen Nordstrom Baer