Classes I Have Presented
- Directors Summer School (2024)
- Music Category – All Year Long
- Intermediate Conducting
- Directors Summer School (2023)
- Harmony U Top Tips
- Intermediate Conducting
- Adelaide Bootcamp Workshop (2022)
- Full day of classes / song workshop
- Directors Summer School (2021) Zoom
- Planning For Success
- Advanced Interpretation
- Top 10 Coaching Questions (and answers)
- August A Cappella (2020) Zoom
- Barbershop Interpretation 101
- Directors Summer School (2020)
- The Truth About Resonance (an imagery free zone)
- Directors Summer School (2019)
- Resonance – An Interactive Class
- Barbershop Embellishments I
- Barbershop Embellishments II – Practical Class
- Directors Summer School (2018)
- Resonance – An Interactive Class
- Barbershop Embellishments
- Directors Summer School (2017)
- Resonance – An Interactive Class
- Directors Summer School (2014)
- Regional Quartet Workshop – Perth (2013)
- Presented as part of Hi-Jinx
- Playing The Game
- Music Difficulty
- Regional Quartet Workshop – Adelaide (2010)
- Co-presented with Lindsey Dyer
- Post Convention Classes (2006)
- Spring Into Action WA 2005
- Harmony & Harmonics
- Tone Flow & Articulation
- Personal Vocal Development
- NSW Kickstart 2005
- Understanding Barbershop: Why Overtones Happen
- The Naked Voice
- Analysing Your Music
- QLD Kickstart 2005 (& Quartet Day)
- WA Kickstart 2004
- WA Quartet Day 2004
- Quartet Workshop Weekend (2001) UK
- Quartet Rehearsal Organisation
- The Sound Category for Quartets
- Choosing Music for your Quartet
- Interpretation & The Expression Category for Quartets
- Quartets & Coaches
- Showmanship for Quartets
- One Voice: The Final Frontier
Other Classes Available on Request
Vocal Production
- The Answer Is Always Resonance
- The Personal Breath
The Convention Experience
- Preparation for Contest – Visualization
- The Warmup Room and how to use it
- Rehearsing for Contest
- Putting together a contest performance
- Score Sheets: Analysis & Action Plan
Section Rehearsals
- Teaching Section Unity
- Voice parts and their roles in the chorus sound
- Holding duetting rehearsals
- Choosing your model voice
Chorus Growth Through Quartets
- Encouraging quartets in your chorus
- Quartets for chorus spirit, personal growth, chorus growth and regional growth
- The Non-Threatening Quartet and what it can do for you
Song Development
- Song choice & music analysis
- Learning tapes – the good the bad and the ugly
- How to present an interpretive plan
- Ballad interpretation
- Uptune: tempo, rhythm, tag, intro, attitude
Choreography 1-2-3
- What is “appropriate” choreography?
- How to put in movement that enhances the sound
- Adding performance skills to your interpretive plan
Directing Skills
- Help with Arm-waving
- Directing Phrases
- Help with song analysis and problem-spot solving
- Director, make the chorus do the work!
- What are Assistant Directors for?
Planning your Chorus Education
- Teaching at all levels
- Training and recruiting helpers
- How to get the most from your coaches
How to structure your vocal warmups
- Why are we singing this?
- Doing it on purpose
- Feeding VP into songs
Alignment: Vocal Freedom & Energy
- Alignment
- Fluid bodies
- Resonance
- Visual focus & “intensity”
What You See Is What You Hear: Turning Your Choreography Into Sound
- Supportive choreography vs. Detrimental choreography
- Emotional plans: use specific and intense emotive words
- Make the chorus look how you want them to sound (and tell them what you’re doing)