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The group will meet most days from 9:30-1:00; and again from 2:30-6:50 and work on a wide range of topics, including: choosing quality repertoire, building group tone, conducting, kinesthetics as applied to choral performance, ensemble techniques, textual considerations and musical performance problem solving. As well as participating in a daily conducting master class, we will also address the issue of when it is appropriate to have an ensemble lead itself.

In a wonderful addition, we are also pleased to offer a Q&A/dialogue session with Simon as one of our morning sessions.

PLEASE: Participants must arrive at the workshop with the repertoire fully prepared. We do not want to spend valuable rehearsal time learning the notes!

All master class sessions and private conducting classes with Simon will be videotaped; you must supply your own videotapes.

Bronislawa Falinska, our visiting artist in vocal pedagogy, will join us over the 8 days to conduct sessions using the Rohmert method of Functional Voicetraining.This approach guides the singer towards an awareness of the voice not usually addressed by most conventional singing methods. Get ready for a sensorial exploration of the voice, and to explore how self-perception works in the combination of “hearing-feeling-seeing.” Broni will also be offering private lessons for an additional fee. You may make arrangements with her after the Workshop has begun.

Participants are responsible for their own accommodations and transportation to and from the workshop.  As Sarteano is a small town with just a few hotels within walking distance of the workshop, we very highly recommend that you make your hotel reservations as soon as possible if you wish to stay there and walk to the workshop.  August is high season, and as there are almost nightly festivals around this time, it is a popular and exciting place to visit.

As Sarteano is such a beautiful town to explore, you may want to add on a few days at either the beginning or end of your stay; to be able to fully appreciate Sarteano and the surrounding countryside. If you are planning to have a car during your stay you will have many more wonderful options of both hotels and lovely agriturismo to choose from on the outskirts of Sarteano or in nearby Chiusi or Chianciano Terme. There is ample parking near the main piazza in Sarteano, but be prepared to get plenty of uphill exercise as the town and our workshop space is situated (as are many Tuscan villages) on a hill.

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