Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Episode 218: The Heart of the Matter with Kyle Pederson
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Episode 218: The Heart of the Matter with Kyle Pederson
“Does the world say that you don’t look the right way? Does the world say a that you’re just not enough.” Text written by this week’s guest Kyle Pederson. One of the most powerful tools educators have is the connection of our content to the personal experiences of students.
Composer Kyle Pederson is a big advocate for “co-creation” in Music classrooms. This includes the more intuitive ways like empowering singers to be involved in the creative process (composing, text-writing, etc)…but in more subtle ways too, like finding opportunities in the rehearsal for students to insert original text, or even just come to a group decision about what “story” they are telling with the piece.
In several of his scores, Kyle provides space/time for singers to include narration/spoken word…which provides more opportunity for conversation in their choral classroom, and more opportunity for singers to lean into their own creativity. In this episode, we discuss this process and its benefits for young people. We even have a brief discussion of modern politics toward the end, so stick around for that!
As always, I hope you find something useful here!
Come to KC and Sing Next June!
Choralosophy presented by Ludus. Visit Ludus.com/choralosophy for the cutting edge in fine arts ticketing and marketing solutions.
Tune in, and have your thinking stimulated and challenged. Then, weigh in yourself with your related ideas and experiences on Facebook in the Choralosophers group or over on choralosophy.substack.com
Clinician/Presenter Requests
Support the Show/Bonus Materials
Choralosophy Community Blog
Merch Store!
Visit Kaleidescope Today!
www.sightreadingfactory.com is the best literacy tool on the market today. Enter Choralosophy at checkout to get 10% off memberships for you AND your students!
Be Sure to Find Choralosophy on TikTok!
For future rehearsal clips, find me on TikTok, Insta and FB!
Kyle Pederson is a Minneapolis-based composer, lyricist, pianist, and educator.
He enjoys working at the intersection of the sacred and secular, and his lyrics and music invite the choir and audience to be agents of hope, grace, and compassion in the world.
@choralosophypodca
Sign up for an annual membership and save over $50 by entering Choralosophy at checkout! Save 15% on monthly or annual subscriptions.
Enter Choralosophy at Checkout for a 5% discount when you shop for folders, robes and other gear for your choir program! www.mymusicfolders.com and www.mychoirrobes.com
Pederson was awarded the American Prize in Choral Composition in 2019, and the ACDA Genesis Prize in 2020. Pederson has an undergraduate degree from Augustana Universi-ty, a Masters Degree in Education from University of St. Thomas, and an MFA in Music Composition from Vermont College of Fine Art. His work is commissioned, performed,
Great deals, speedy shipping, and back to school sales at SheetMusicPlus!
and recorded by community, school, and professional choirs around the world and is published by Walton, Santa Barbara, ECS, Hal Leonard, Beckenhorst, Alfred, Carl Fischer, Hinshaw, and Gentry. Additional information and links to Kyle’s music can be found at kylepederson.com
RyanMain.com is now expanding to a family of composers! Visit endeavormusicpublishing.com and of course, enter Choralosophy at checkout for a 10% discount!
.
View this profile on Instagram
Choralosophy Podcast (@choralosophy) • Instagram photos and videos
View all episodes
By Christopher M Munce
4.6
125125 ratings
“Does the world say that you don’t look the right way? Does the world say a that you’re just not enough.” Text written by this week’s guest Kyle Pederson. One of the most powerful tools educators have is the connection of our content to the personal experiences of students.
Composer Kyle Pederson is a big advocate for “co-creation” in Music classrooms. This includes the more intuitive ways like empowering singers to be involved in the creative process (composing, text-writing, etc)…but in more subtle ways too, like finding opportunities in the rehearsal for students to insert original text, or even just come to a group decision about what “story” they are telling with the piece.
In several of his scores, Kyle provides space/time for singers to include narration/spoken word…which provides more opportunity for conversation in their choral classroom, and more opportunity for singers to lean into their own creativity. In this episode, we discuss this process and its benefits for young people. We even have a brief discussion of modern politics toward the end, so stick around for that!
As always, I hope you find something useful here!
Come to KC and Sing Next June!
Choralosophy presented by Ludus. Visit Ludus.com/choralosophy for the cutting edge in fine arts ticketing and marketing solutions.
Tune in, and have your thinking stimulated and challenged. Then, weigh in yourself with your related ideas and experiences on Facebook in the Choralosophers group or over on choralosophy.substack.com
Clinician/Presenter Requests
Support the Show/Bonus Materials
Choralosophy Community Blog
Merch Store!
Visit Kaleidescope Today!
www.sightreadingfactory.com is the best literacy tool on the market today. Enter Choralosophy at checkout to get 10% off memberships for you AND your students!
Be Sure to Find Choralosophy on TikTok!
For future rehearsal clips, find me on TikTok, Insta and FB!
Kyle Pederson is a Minneapolis-based composer, lyricist, pianist, and educator.
He enjoys working at the intersection of the sacred and secular, and his lyrics and music invite the choir and audience to be agents of hope, grace, and compassion in the world.
@choralosophypodca
Sign up for an annual membership and save over $50 by entering Choralosophy at checkout! Save 15% on monthly or annual subscriptions.
Enter Choralosophy at Checkout for a 5% discount when you shop for folders, robes and other gear for your choir program! www.mymusicfolders.com and www.mychoirrobes.com
Pederson was awarded the American Prize in Choral Composition in 2019, and the ACDA Genesis Prize in 2020. Pederson has an undergraduate degree from Augustana Universi-ty, a Masters Degree in Education from University of St. Thomas, and an MFA in Music Composition from Vermont College of Fine Art. His work is commissioned, performed,
Great deals, speedy shipping, and back to school sales at SheetMusicPlus!
and recorded by community, school, and professional choirs around the world and is published by Walton, Santa Barbara, ECS, Hal Leonard, Beckenhorst, Alfred, Carl Fischer, Hinshaw, and Gentry. Additional information and links to Kyle’s music can be found at kylepederson.com
RyanMain.com is now expanding to a family of composers! Visit endeavormusicpublishing.com and of course, enter Choralosophy at checkout for a 10% discount!
.
View this profile on Instagram
Choralosophy Podcast (@choralosophy) • Instagram photos and videos
More shows like Choralosophy
View all
The Ramsey Show
38,895 Listeners
Piano Puzzler
523 Listeners
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
38,638 Listeners
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
8,471 Listeners
The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast
2,404 Listeners
Next Question with Katie Couric
4,803 Listeners
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
69,271 Listeners
The Choral Director's Toolbox
8 Listeners
Music (ed) Matters
51 Listeners
Literally! With Rob Lowe
12,687 Listeners
Choir Fam Podcast
12 Listeners
conduct(her)
23 Listeners
The MERFY Podcast
10 Listeners
The Choir Guys
15 Listeners
ACDA Podcast
1 Listeners