The Art of Conducting!
Our yearly ‘CONDUCTING WORKSHOP’ is back!!! Whether you are a teacher, instrumentalist, singer or music student, the knowledge of how to conduct a choir or an orchestra is a most important musical skill. Our workshop offers a progressive series of enjoyable and stimulating stages which will rapidly improve your conducting.
All levels and ages welcome!
AGENDA
12.30 Registration & read through hand-outs
1.00 – 1.30 basic conducting techniques
1.30 – 2.30 first session with choir & piano
2.30 – 2.50 Tea break
2.50 – 4.20 2nd session with choir & orchestra
4.20 – 4.40 Tea break & snack
4.45 – 6.00 workshop performance with soloists
6.00 Question time over wine and cheese
ALSO INCLUDED
Rehearsal techniques
• Practical session with pianist, choir & small orchestra
• Live performance
• Video Recording
• Music available in advance
• Improve your general musical skills
• Have Fun!
• FREE afternoon tea & wine & cheese
REPERTOIRE (with solo tenor & mezzo, choir, string quartet & piano):
Excerpts from Handel’s Messiah & easy a cappella music
• Messiah Pifa (easy) / recitative Comfort me (advanced) / chorus Since by Man (advanced) / chorus Surely (intermediate-advanced)
• Xerxes Ombra mai fu (easy)
RITA PACZIAN
Music and Artistic Director Rita Paczian is a professional free-lance conductor performing in New Zealand and abroad. Specialising in historically informed Baroque performance, she has worked extensively with the Vienna Baroque orchestra Wiener Akademie. A New Zealand citizen now resident in Tairua, she is widely regarded as one of Australasia’s most dynamic conductors and is in demand internationally by leading orchestras in Europe, Australia and South Africa. Under her direction since 1993, Bach Musica NZ is now recognised as one of New Zealand’s leading music ensemble.
BOOKING
$90.00 Adults
$50.00 observers
(a) deposit on-line
to: 12 3011 0809319 00 reference: CW
(b) post a cheque
(made out to Bach Musica NZ) to:
Glenys Riggir
10 B Norana Avenue
Remuera Auckland 1050
ENQUIRIES / REGISTRATION
Glenys Riggir
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