Alma College Conducting Camp

07/16/2021

What a great group of young conductors!

07/11/2021

Great start to the 2021 conducting camp. Ten terrific young musicians from across Michigan -- Elk Rapids, Kingsley, Caledonia, Grandville, Durand, Hastings, Standish-Sterling, Jackson, and East Kentwood. They've conquered 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4, and are wrestling with cues and cutoffs. Now some dinner and a short break before session 2.

08/02/2019

Getting excited for the start of conducting camp! Ladies and gentlemen, raise your batons! (actually, we don't need batons)

07/26/2019

Hey Conductors: Here's the schedule for Sunday, Aug 4.
2:30 - 3:30 arrive at Alma College and check-in to Wright Hall.
4:00 -- first conducting class.
5:00 Dinner.
6:30 -- first choir rehearsal - Everyone conducts! Yay!

07/26/2019

Hi Conductors: Just for fun, here's an Alma Choir recording of "The Circle of Life" arranged for us by the soloist (and now choir alum) Brendan Lodge.

The Alma College Choirs opening song at the concert on Homecoming Weekend , Oct. 2013. Brendan did the arrangement for this version of "The Circle of Life".

07/26/2019

Hi conductors: Here's a great recording of "Old Abram Brown" by the famous English composer Benjamin Britten.

Moonrise Kingdom Soundtrack Songs From Friday Afternoons, Op. 7: "Old Abram Brown" Viola Tunnard; Benjamin Britten: Downside School, Purley, Choir Of Track #15

07/26/2019

Hi Conductors: Here is a recording of the Palestrina "Sicut cervus." Happy conducting!

Martin Baker (dir.) -- As a hart longs for the flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee, O God.

07/25/2019

I'm excited for the conducting camp at Alma College n early August. Seventeen young conductors from all around Michigan will join me on the Alma campus. Can't wait!

07/02/2019

Choral Conducting Camp!
Alma College
August 4 - 7, 2020.
"Let the music begin!"