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Maybe as a conductor you’ve seen it. A shift in the rehearsal atmosphere. Silence where there once was easy conversation and laughter. Averted eyes where there once was engagement. Maybe...

Your website is lying to you. Not maliciously. Not intentionally. But every beautiful photo, every carefully written season description, every award-winning design choice is making the same silent promise: "We...

Michael J. Bobbitt brings a rare combination of organizational leadership, artistic and producing credentials, and hands-on advocacy experience to every room he enters. As the newly appointed president and CEO...

SPONSORED STORY FROM A CHORUS AMERICA PARTNER After cultivating a rigorous and dedicated volunteer ensemble in Kansas City for 15 years, Te Deum founder and artistic director Matthew Shepard embarked...

Music has always been a vehicle for emotion. In choral spaces, we often ask singers to connect deeply to the music being performed. That collective emotional openness is part of...

People have sung together for as long as we know of. Singing even predates human existence, with evidence suggesting that Neanderthals sang. So how has this art form continued to...

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the landscape of the choral world and our views of health and wellness in ways we are just beginning to understand. While it was a traumatic...

On any given day in any given city, people are gathering together to sing. Some arrive energized; others slip in quietly, carrying stress, loneliness, or fatigue. But within minutes, they...

The Executive Director role is hard. Many of us (myself included) come from a background in the performing arts. Nowhere in my musical education did I receive training in things...

Imagine you and your team planning for a big event (a concert, or a gala for example). You run highly-structured, thoroughly planned meetings where you share important updates and people...

As a conductor, I never imagined a crescendo could trigger stress. Once, I dreamed only of grand builds—the opening swell of Handel’s “Zadok the Priest,” the layered voices of Lotti’s...

In the late summer of 2022, Heidi Ackerman picked up her phone and took a video selfie. In it, she said: “My name’s Heidi, and would you like to sing...