Experience as a composer will also give you greater confidence and versatility in rehearsals when the need to edit a piece on the fly becomes necessary to get the best possible performance.ģ. Just as important, I can’t count the number of times I’ve created special arrangements of a piece for a group. While that’s great advice, no one knows a piece of music better than the composer, and conducting your own music will bring a new level of life to the piece.
#Conduct together music how to
You’ll learn more about how to write for the voice by hearing singers of different ages and experience levels tackling a variety of passages and get a full understanding of vocal registration and what each part of the voice sounds like, too.Ī colleague once told me that the only way to truly prepare a choral piece is by being able to sing every part of it yourself. How many times have you been in a rehearsal and the conductor says “Let’s add an eighth note lift at the end of this phrase” when it’s not written into the score? All the practical aspects of how a piece turns out are going to be better understood by those who actively work from the podium. The idea of how a piece of music comes together on paper and it’s practical manifestation on the body of a choir can differ significantly. Here are my five main take-aways from that discussion, with some of my own thoughts on the benefits and importance of working in both sides of the creative process. The panel was about ‘composers who conduct and conductors who compose’, and we had a fascinating discussion about the benefits and challenges of playing these dual roles and how it has changed our perspective as musicians. At this year’s national ACDA convention I had the opportunity to sit on a panel with like minded artists including Karen Thomas, David Conte, Eric Banks, and Steven Sametz who have also not been content to put themselves in a single box. In a world that is increasingly emphasizing the importance of specialization, I’ve become an advocate for musicians being as versatile as possible in their creative work. During my own career in the freelance music world, switching roles between performer, composer, and conductor has opened a diversity of opportunities I wouldn’t have dreamed.
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