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Vocal Wellness For A Lifetime
Give Your Voice A Valentine
A half day workshop for choristers,
choral conductors, voice teachers,
singers and lovers of choral music,
presented by Chorus Niagara.
Featuring
Kay Wiley, M.S., CCC-SLP
Victoria Heart, Rachel Rensink-Hoff, M.M.
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
Niagara College 8:00am – 1:00pm
Registration is now closed!
Thank you for your interest.
Workshop Schedule
8:00am - Registration and Coffee 8:30am - Session One 9:50am - Stretch Break and Publisher’s Exhibits 10:00am - Session Two 11:05am - Coffee Break and Publisher’s Exhibits 11:30am - Session Three 1:00pm - Feedback and Closing |
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Kay Wiley is a section leader/soloist at St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church and Temple Emanu-El in Tucson, and also sings with the American Bach Series . . .. . . at All Saints Episcopal Church in Phoenix and with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale. She performed and recorded with the Phoenix Bach Choir from 1994-2006 under the direction of Jon Washburn and Charles Bruffy. Kay has been a soloist and member of other professional chamber choirs and symphony choruses in Albuquerque, Los Angeles and Washington D.C., and has performed with the Carnegie Hall Professional Chorus under conductors such as Andre Previn, Peter Schreier, Charles Dutoit and Helmuth Rilling. She is a speech-language pathologist in private practice, and presents frequently at national and international conferences on voice disorders and rehabilitation of the performance voice.
Victoria Heart is a graduate of the Toronto School of the Alexander Technique and has been teaching since 1995. Having just finished her sixth season . . .. . . with the Shaw Festival, Ms Heart finds working in the creative arts particularly rewarding. Her students at the Shaw encompass members from the acting ensemble and the Shaw Festival Orchestra, as well as backstage and support staff. Prior to Ms Heart’s arrival at the Shaw Festival, she was the Alexander Coach for the Toronto production of The Lion King. Ms Heart is also an associate teacher at the Toronto School of the Alexander Technique. Her practice includes musicians from the Canadian Opera Company and The National Ballet, writers, visual artists and other professionals.
Rachel Rensink-Hoff is close to completing her Doctorate in Choral Conducting and Music Education at the University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Music where . . .. . . she teaches undergraduate courses in conducting and choral techniques. She is also the conductor of the Addison Women’s Choir of Cambridge, Ontario and the newly formed Niagara-based chamber choir, Impulse. Rachel frequently serves as a choral adjudicator and clinician for music festivals and workshops and two of her articles have been published in the international Choral Journal of the American Choral Directors’ Association. Rachel and her husband Aron also keep busy raising their first baby daughter, Norah.