CONDUCTING EXPERIENCE (with the guide in this brochure, please tick)

Basic Intermediate Advanced

OTHER DETAILS Vegetarian Gluten Free Accommodation info request

PAYMENT For all concession and student registrations please enclose card details.

Early Bird: Direct deposit and post date up to 19 Nov 2015 (no exceptions) Four day Summer School, music package, four lunches, refreshments

$600 Full $500 Concession $400 Student $

Standard: Direct deposit and post date 20 November 2015 or later Four day Summer School, music package, four lunches, refreshments

$700 Full $600 Concession $440 Student $

Day Summer School Come for a day or two, lunch and refreshments on the day

Mon 18 Tue 19 Wed 20 Thurs 21

$200 Full (per day) $170 Concession (per day) Option: purchase of music package $30 $

EXTRASSummer School Dinner tickets @ $48 (incl. GST) $

Sing for Life Choir $180 full $150 concession $130 student $

Choral Adjudicator’s Certificate $65 (both full and concession) $

Total $

You can register online at www.choralconductors.org.au Or post application forms to: Australian Choral Conductors Education and Training PO Box 535, RICHMOND, Vic 3121

Melbourne 18 – 21 January 2016 Eldon Hogan Performing Arts Centre, Xavier College, Barkers Rd, Kew

23rd23rd

ACCET Presents

Gary Graden (Sweden / USA) Dr Debra Shearer-Dirie (Brisbane)Eldon Hogan Performing Arts Centre Xavier College, Barkers Rd, KewYou can combine the Choral Conductors Summer School & Sing for Life Choir & Choral Adjudicator Course for a comprehensive and stimulating choral experience.

Name:

Home Address:

State: Postcode:Tel: Email:

Choir name: for conductors of school, church & community choirs

Early Bird Registration for 2016 ACCET Choral Conductors Summer SchoolRegister by 19 November 2015 and take advantage of the *early bird reduction

ACCET Summer School programme 2016Time Monday 18 Tuesday 19 Wednesday 20 Thursday 21

8:00 am Registration 8.30 am Warm upSuzanne Johnston

8.30 am Warm upSuzanne Johnston

8.30 am Warm upSuzanne Johnston

9.00 am 23rd Summer School beginsWelcome, warm up & singingGary Graden & Debra Shearer-Dirie

Improving gesture – the space between the beatsDebra Shearer-Dirie

Sharp? Flat? On pitch? Choral intonationGary Graden

What women composers?Faye Dumont

10.45 am Morning tea Morning tea Morning tea Morning tea

11.15 am Conductor and choral improvisation – music, melody, motionGary Graden

Conducting master classGary Graden

Conducting 3:Group tuition – BasicIntermediateAdvanced

Conducting master classDebra Shearer-Dirie

12.30 pm Lunch and networking Introduction to retailersLunch / browse music

Summer School photoLunch / browse music

Lunch / browse music

1.30 pm Conducting 1: Group tuitionBasic, Intermediate, Advanced

Conducting 2: Group tuitionBasic, Intermediate, Advanced

Conducting 4: Group tuitionBasic, Intermediate, Advanced

Conducting 5: Group tuitionBasic, Intermediate, Advanced

3.30 pm Afternoon tea Afternoon tea Afternoon tea Afternoon tea

4.00 pm Repertoire reading options: 1. Primary / children’s choirMark Puddy2. Secondary / youth choir Jodie Spooner-Ryan 3. Community / church choirFaye Dumont

Scandinavian music to know – unison, SSA, TTB, SATB Gary Graden

Freedom v. resistance – finding balance in gestureDebra Shearer-Dirie

The grand finaleInspiration and singingGary Graden & Debra Shearer-Dirie

5.30 pm End of Summer School day End of Summer School day End of Summer School day End of 23rd Summer School

Evening 6.00 pm Shared pub meal (optional)

6.00 pm Snack for all participants

6.30 – 8 pmSing for Life Open rehearsal

7.00 pm Summer School Dinner (optional)

Timetable correct at the time of printing

Save$100

For conductors

learning at all levels.

Melbourne 18 – 21 January 2016

with Gary Graden

VOICE PART (please tick)

Soprano Alto Tenor Bass

CATERING (Excellent lunch and afternoon tea included Sunday; snack Tuesday)

Vegetarian Gluten Free

PAYMENT: SING FOR LIFE CHOIR(Sunday 17 Jan, 10.30 am – 4.00 pm & Tuesday 19 Jan, 6.00 – 8.00 pm)

$180 Full $150 Concession $130 Student

For all student and concession registrations please enclose card details.

Direct debit: ANZ Bank BSB: 013 345 Account number: 555917357 Account name: Australian Choral Conductors Education and Training

Or enclose cheque / money order payable to: Australian Choral Conductors Education and Training

You can register online at www.choralconductors.org.au Or post application forms to: Australian Choral Conductors Education and Training PO Box 535, RICHMOND, Vic 3121

CONTACTAustralian Choral Conductors Education and Training

Phone: (03) 9818 1296 contact@choralconductors.org.au www.choralconductors.org.au

Registration & tax invoice

Australian Choral Conductors

Education and Training (ACCET)

ABN 62 864 140 790

Registration & tax invoice

Australian Choral Conductors

Education and Training (ACCET)

ABN 62 864 140 790

Australian Choral Conductors Education and Training www.choralconductors.org.au

Sunday 17 January 10.30 am – 4.00 pm Tuesday 19 January 6.00 – 8.00 pm Eldon Hogan Performing Arts Centre, Xavier College, Barkers Rd, Kew

Direct debit: ANZ Bank BSB: 013 345 Account number: 555917357 Account name: Australian Choral Conductors Education and Training

Or enclose cheque / money order: Please make payable to: Australian Choral Conductors Education and Training

Name:

Home Address:

State: Postcode:Tel: Email:

Choir name:

Developing your conductingThis ACCET Summer School offers you four stimulating days in which to develop and refine your conducting skills, to under-stand the body-mind process that links thought to conducting gesture, and to be expressive in conducting. It will give you much new understanding of the voices of choristers you con-duct, expand your range of rehearsal techniques, provide you with a new range of choir warm-ups, and you will gain refresh-ing new repertoire in a variety of forms – in the substantial package of music you receive, in music reading sessions, and in stimulating topical sessions of music for children, youth and adult choirs, Scandinavian music and music written by women composers.

In addition to Gary Graden and Dr Debra Shearer-Dirie the team will include Dr Robert Braham, Sonny Chua, Nicholas Cowall, Anne Credlin, Faye Dumont, Suzanne Johnston, Bruce Macrae, Judith McKnight, Jenny Mathers, Mark Puddy, Lyn Richardson, Jodie Spooner-Ryan and Tony Stratford.

Emphasis on conductingDevelopment of your conducting skill is the central goal of the 23rd ACCET Summer School. This will occur through group tuition, demonstration and master classes. In five in-depth conducting group workshops you will improve your skill and confidence in conducting. To assist you in nominating your current skill, consider the following:

Basic• has limited experience rehearsing and conducting a choir• needs basic conducting patterns• needs confidence in score preparation• needs confidence in cueing entries and executing cut-offs• wants beginning information on running rehearsals

Intermediate• has had substantial experience rehearsing and conducting a choir• has had previous conducting tuition • wants to increase technical skill with entries and cut-offs,

phrasing, legato, staccato, accent, pauses, dynamics and time changes

• wants to advance knowledge of musical interpretation

Advanced• has much experience rehearsing and conducting skilled choirs• is willing to audition on the first day to gain a place in the advanced group• has had considerable conducting tuition• is willing to tackle advanced music

Gary GradenBorn in USA, Gary Graden studied at Clark University (BA), Harrt School of Music (MM), at Aspen Music Festival and in Sweden with Eric Ericson at the Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm. Gary Graden, singer, conductor, is currently Director of the Choir of Stockholm Cathedral and of St Jacob’s Chamber Choir. With Gary conducting, St Jacob’s Chamber Choir and Stockholm Musicgymnasium Chamber Choir have won many awards, including the European Grand Prize for Choral Singing.

Gary has conducted a range of masterworks including Mass in B Minor and Passions – Bach, Messiah – Handel, Requiem and C Minor Mass – Mozart, and requiems of Michael Haydn, Fauré, Brahms and Duruflé. He has particular interest in new works and has premiered many. He has conducted in Germany – Stuttgart and Cologne, Vilnius in Lithuania, Canada, Taipei and Singapore; the American (ACDA) National Collegiate Honours Choir and the World Youth Choir; and is recorded singer and conductor on several CDs.

Dr Debra Shearer-DirieDr Debra Shearer-Dirie maintains an active career as a choral conductor, music educator, workshop leader and scholar. She holds a M Music Education and a DM from Indiana University, USA (where she directed the Indiana University Children’s and Youth Choir, was Assistant Director of pro Arte Singers, and two years Director of the International Vocal Ensemble).

Originally from Perth, WA, in Queensland Debra has conducted the Queensland Young Conservatorium Choir, and is currently Music Director of the Brisbane Concert Choir, Vox Pacifica Chamber Choir, Fusion and Vintage Voices. She seeks opportu-nity to collaborate with other music groups, composers, danc-ers, visual artists, multi-media experts and cultural groups.

Debra is editor of ANCA journal Sing Out, and serves on ANCA National Council. She is a reviewer for the IFCM International Choral Bulletin. She has been an adjudicator at choral festivals across the Asia-Pacific region, and conductor of workshops and festivals across Australia.

22nd

A great experience is in store for choristers in the 2016 Sing for Life Choir. Gary Graden has chosen a varied program, from composers Tomas Luiz da Victoria and William Byrd to Johannes Brahms; with exciting recent works Swedish, German and American; a rhythmic South African work and choral improvisation.

Born in USA, Gary Graden studied at Clark University (BA), Hartt School of Music (MM), and at Aspen Music Festival. In Sweden he studied with Eric Ericson at the Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm. Gary Graden, singer, conductor, is currently Director of the Choir of Stockholm Cathedral and of St Jacob’s Chamber Choir, Sweden. Gary has conducted a range of masterworks of choral music, including Bach Mass in B Minor, Messiah – Handel, Mozart Requiem and Mass in C Minor, and requiems by Michael Haydn, Fauré, Brahms and Duruflé.

Sing for Life participant Music will be for soprano, alto, tenor and bass voices. You will need to be able to sight read. Repertoire will be from mixed eras.

Sing for Life participant (catering included): $180 full, $150 concession, $130 student Registration form is overleaf

Sunday 17 January 10.30 am – 4.00 pm Tuesday 19 January 6.00 – 8.00 pm Both at Eldon Hogan Performing Arts Centre, Xavier College, Barkers Rd, Kew Observers are invited to the Tuesday night rehearsal to hear the choir develop under the direction of Gary Graden. This is a free event. Bring family and friends.

ACCET The Choral Conductors Summer School is presented by Australian Choral Conductors Education and Training Inc, a not for profit arts organisation, with the endorsement and support of the Australian National Choral Association (ANCA Vic/Tas), the Australian Society for Music Education (ASME) Victoria and RSCM Australia.

The organisation aims to facilitate conductor education, including the following purposes:

• to provide choral conductor education at all levels• to engage the best personnel, Australian and international, to perform, demonstrate, teach and inspire• to encourage choral conductors to develop their own conducting technique• to provide education in vocal health and pedagogy • to provide information on choral organisation, management and staging• to develop the skills of sight-reading, aural perception and languages among conductors and choristers• to provide information on choral repertoire, literature and arranging, with a strong focus on Australian choral music• to provide awareness and understanding of culture-specific choral music• to encourage research into choral and vocal music• to develop courses of accreditation.

ACCET Donations TrustACCET has set up a tax deductible Trust for donations to further conductor education.

A donation may, for example, support a scholarship for a young conductor, or assist in the cost of bringing to Australia a choral education leader. Donations may be from individuals, schools or businesses eager to support the development of choral music.

ACCET is in the process of setting up its first graduate course. The Certificate in Choral Education will begin in 2016-7. A Diploma and Advanced Diploma are currently being designed.

Features Warm-ups led by Suzanne Johnston, star of opera, preparing participants for an entire day of singing and conducting; and providing a wealth of exercises for later use.

Repertoire Five sessions will offer music for children’s, youth and adult community or church choirs. Additionally, full time participants will receive repertoire in their Summer School package. Participants in coming for one or two days may opt to purchase a package.

Master Classes Given by Gary Graden and Dr Debra Shearer-Dirie will be observed by the whole school, giving all partici-pants opportunity to learn from the development of conductors in their midst.

ACCET Choral Adjudicator’s Certificate On the day following ACCET Conductor Summer School, Friday 22 January, a one-day course with follow-up activities will offer at Xavier College. Led by Faye Dumont, this course will include understanding the purpose of adjudication, what to evaluate, exercises in quick judgement, writing critiques and delivering comments and awards. This is useful to those who adjudicate and to those who are adjudicated! Add it to your Registration.

Retail music display There is opportunity to browse through an excellent variety of music and to make contact with retailers to purchase and order for the year’s music making.

The venue The Eldon Hogan Performing Arts Centre at Xavier College, opened in 2008, is a state of the art facility for the Summer School major sessions, with some groups in the Chapel and Great Hall.

The school can be entered from Barkers Rd or Charles St, and there is ample car parking in the grounds. (Melway 45 C-D 7 – 8). One or two blocks walk from trams 109, 24, 48, 16. (Tram 16 connects with Glenferrie railway station.)

AccommodationInformation, both local and in the City of Melbourne, can be requested with Registration.

Registration Form Registration may be on-line – www.choralconductors.org.au or in paper form. Payment may be by direct debit or by cheque / money order.

Contact

Australian Choral Conductors Education and TrainingPO Box 535, RICHMOND, Vic 3121 Phone: (03) 9818 1296 Email: contact@choralconductors.org.au Website: www.choralconductors.org.au

Timetable:

Sunday 17 January Tuesday 19 January

10.00 am Registration

10.30 am Rehearsal 1

12:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm Rehearsal 2

2:40 pm Afternoon Tea

3:00 pm Rehearsal 3

4:00 pm (End of day)

6:00 pm Snack and drink

6:30 pm OPEN REHEARSAL

8.00 pm End of rehearsal