Total Choir Resources

In this episode, we catch up with our old friend Dean Jones. You may already know Dean from his beautiful choir arrangements that are available to all Total Choir Resources members. Dean is a musician, composer and all-round great guy who we’ve known since the early days of Total Choir Resources. We talk to him about finding the music that your audience needs, building a career that inspires you, and bringing music to communities.

In one of our most popular podcast episodes, we talked about the idea of imposter syndrome, what it could mean to us as choir leaders and how we could take action to minimise it. So, today, a few years later and on the back of a global pandemic we’ve decided to pick up this topic once again and see how it looks today.

One of the greatest joys about doing this podcast is getting to talk to some amazing people within the choir world. Today we welcome Kathryn Rowland, a choir leader and Total Choir Resources member, who runs a multi-choir business including adult, workplace and charity choirs.

In this episode, we’re going to bore you silly and that’s a promise! We’re talking about all the issues that creative types would prefer to ignore, but which are vital to our success as choir leaders.

In this episode we’re discussing the role of technology and social media in our lives and how we can use it responsibly to support and develop our choirs while looking after our mental health.

In this episode, we’re reaching back into the archive to repost a great podcast that may have passed you by. We discuss how to approach leading a choir made up of individuals with diverse abilities, expectations and preferences. These issues are incredibly relevant at the moment, as we rebuild our choirs post-pandemic and decide what to keep and what to change going forward. So let’s dive in.

Dr Kerry Boyle is a singer, choir leader and academic who has launched a major study into participation in choirs worldwide. In this episode, we discuss Kerry’s career, the importance of choirs and how your choir can get involved.

In this episode, we’re delighted to welcome conductor Adam Luebke. Adam is an Assistant Professor of Voice and Choral Conducting at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is also the music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and winner of the 2021 GRAMMY award for Best Choral Performance.

Our guest in this episode is Rachel Greaves, general secretary of the Association of British Choral Directors. ABCD, like so many other organisations, had to pivot hard in 2020 to help and support choirs as the pandemic forced us all out of rehearsal and performance venues. We talked to Rachel about how ABCD is working to gather data to support a return to singing so we can all get back to doing what we love.

In this episode, we welcome internationally-recognised vocal coach and trainer Chris Johnson to the podcast to get his wisdom on post-pandemic voices and how to nurture them back to full glorious life.