Jacksonville AGO Conducting Workshop
Workshop: Saturday, October 25
Lab Choir Rehearsal: Friday Evening, October 24
Place: St. Paul’s By-the-Sea
Time: 8:30 AM-5:00 PM
So you have planned a special music program, hired guest instrumentalists and maybe soloists, and you are going to stand up and lead them all! Are you confident you can communicate well and have it sound the way you’ve dreamed it would? Just to be sure, get your skills in order in this special workshop designed for the weekly organist turned stand-up conductor. The clinician is Cara Tasher, Director of Choral Activities at the University of North Florida. The orchestra will consist of a string quartet from UNF.
Conducting participants will receive extensive individual coaching during several targeted sessions throughout the day for a fee of $50. Dr. Tasher will select the repertoire. Please contact Patricia DeWitt at grocheio@gmail.com for more information and to register as a conducting participant. A maximum of six conducting participants can be accommodated, so please register early.
AGO members may audit at no charge, and non-AGO members may audit for a fee of $15. Auditors with scores will participate in the score study and observe the sessions. Choir members who are excellent readers and accurate singers are needed for the lab choir, which will rehearse Friday evening, October 24.
Dr. Cara Tasher has served as Director of Choral Activities and Associate Professor of Voice at the University of North Florida since 2006. This fall UNF will begin a master’s in choral conducting degree program under her direction. As a singer, chorus master and/or conductor, Tasher has been professionally associated with the Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Conspirare, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Mexico City's Opera deBellas Artes, Portugal's Vocalizze Festival, Trinity Choir-Wall Street, Xavier University and the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. Proficient in several languages, Tasher's engagements as both a singer and a conductor have brought her to nearly ten states and twenty countries for concerts, festivals, workshops, or as a featured soloist. Her training took place in the Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus, at the University of Cincinnati College’s Conservatory of Music, University of Texas at Austin, La Sorbonne, and Northwestern University. Dr. Tasher is active within the national and global community as an adjudicator, author, guest clinician, conductor and recitalist. She was awarded the 2010 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award at the University of North Florida and her students continue to thrive under the mentorship of the Flagship Music Program in Jacksonville.
Lab Choir Rehearsal: Friday Evening, October 24
Place: St. Paul’s By-the-Sea
Time: 8:30 AM-5:00 PM
So you have planned a special music program, hired guest instrumentalists and maybe soloists, and you are going to stand up and lead them all! Are you confident you can communicate well and have it sound the way you’ve dreamed it would? Just to be sure, get your skills in order in this special workshop designed for the weekly organist turned stand-up conductor. The clinician is Cara Tasher, Director of Choral Activities at the University of North Florida. The orchestra will consist of a string quartet from UNF.
Conducting participants will receive extensive individual coaching during several targeted sessions throughout the day for a fee of $50. Dr. Tasher will select the repertoire. Please contact Patricia DeWitt at grocheio@gmail.com for more information and to register as a conducting participant. A maximum of six conducting participants can be accommodated, so please register early.
AGO members may audit at no charge, and non-AGO members may audit for a fee of $15. Auditors with scores will participate in the score study and observe the sessions. Choir members who are excellent readers and accurate singers are needed for the lab choir, which will rehearse Friday evening, October 24.
Dr. Cara Tasher has served as Director of Choral Activities and Associate Professor of Voice at the University of North Florida since 2006. This fall UNF will begin a master’s in choral conducting degree program under her direction. As a singer, chorus master and/or conductor, Tasher has been professionally associated with the Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Conspirare, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Mexico City's Opera deBellas Artes, Portugal's Vocalizze Festival, Trinity Choir-Wall Street, Xavier University and the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. Proficient in several languages, Tasher's engagements as both a singer and a conductor have brought her to nearly ten states and twenty countries for concerts, festivals, workshops, or as a featured soloist. Her training took place in the Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus, at the University of Cincinnati College’s Conservatory of Music, University of Texas at Austin, La Sorbonne, and Northwestern University. Dr. Tasher is active within the national and global community as an adjudicator, author, guest clinician, conductor and recitalist. She was awarded the 2010 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award at the University of North Florida and her students continue to thrive under the mentorship of the Flagship Music Program in Jacksonville.
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For Current members wishing to renew:
Click Here and follow the directions as listed on the homepage:
Username is the first initial of your first name and then your full last name.
Password is your 4 or 5 digit Nation AGO ID number which can be found on your most recent copy of TAO (The American Organist) next to the date.
For Past members wishing to re-join the guild with our chapter affiliation:
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To renew as a "Chapter Friend" please send a check for $20 to our treasurer Ray McDonald with "Chapter Friend" in the memo.
If you have any questions, please let me know and I will do my best to assist you.
Zeek Smith, Webmaster - Zeekspiano@gmail.com
Click Here and follow the directions as listed on the homepage:
Username is the first initial of your first name and then your full last name.
Password is your 4 or 5 digit Nation AGO ID number which can be found on your most recent copy of TAO (The American Organist) next to the date.
For Past members wishing to re-join the guild with our chapter affiliation:
Click Here and follow the instructions.
To renew as a "Chapter Friend" please send a check for $20 to our treasurer Ray McDonald with "Chapter Friend" in the memo.
If you have any questions, please let me know and I will do my best to assist you.
Zeek Smith, Webmaster - Zeekspiano@gmail.com
