Friday Evening Presentations - October 27th at Lincoln Hall, Portland State University
6:30pm-7:30pm - Fostering Inclusivity with Rebeqa Rivers
7:30pm-8:00pm - Carlos Gardel: Life & Music with Richard Hinrichsen
8:00pm-8:30pm - Celebrating LGBT Voices in Song with Chuck Dillard
8:30pm-9:30pm - What They Didn't Teach Me In The Conservatory Of Music with Tim Carson
7:30pm-8:00pm - Carlos Gardel: Life & Music with Richard Hinrichsen
8:00pm-8:30pm - Celebrating LGBT Voices in Song with Chuck Dillard
8:30pm-9:30pm - What They Didn't Teach Me In The Conservatory Of Music with Tim Carson
Fostering Inclusivity by Reconnecting With Student Identities
Rebeqa Rivers
Voice teachers of the 21st century teach students from increasingly diverse backgrounds. How can teachers encourage cultural inclusivity and connect with diverse student identities in meaningful ways? Study results by Rebeqa suggest that using essential questions - i.e. questions designed to stimulate thought rather than generate answers - can create a more inclusive learning environment and connect students more deeply to themselves, each other, and singing in general. This interactive workshop-style session will detail the methods used in Rebeqa's study and discuss ways to employ similar methods in your own studio.
S. Rebeqa Rivers is a Seattle-based educator and researcher specializing in the contemporary music industry and the intersections of music and identity. Her research is published in the Journal of Singing and most recently presented at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland. Rebeqa works with Rain City Rock Camp for Girls, for which she designed an integrated Rock singing, social equity curriculum. Rebeqa holds an M.M.Ed from Boston University and a B.A. in Voice from Wheaton College.
Rebeqa Rivers
Voice teachers of the 21st century teach students from increasingly diverse backgrounds. How can teachers encourage cultural inclusivity and connect with diverse student identities in meaningful ways? Study results by Rebeqa suggest that using essential questions - i.e. questions designed to stimulate thought rather than generate answers - can create a more inclusive learning environment and connect students more deeply to themselves, each other, and singing in general. This interactive workshop-style session will detail the methods used in Rebeqa's study and discuss ways to employ similar methods in your own studio.
S. Rebeqa Rivers is a Seattle-based educator and researcher specializing in the contemporary music industry and the intersections of music and identity. Her research is published in the Journal of Singing and most recently presented at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland. Rebeqa works with Rain City Rock Camp for Girls, for which she designed an integrated Rock singing, social equity curriculum. Rebeqa holds an M.M.Ed from Boston University and a B.A. in Voice from Wheaton College.
Carlos Gardel: His Life & Music
Richard Hinrichsen
Although he died in 1935, Carlos Gardel is still revered as the greatest tango singer who ever lived. For Latin Americans, Carlos Gardel was one of the superstars of his time, starring in several movies which served as vehicles for his beautiful tango singing. Carlos Gardel co-wrote many of the great classic vocal tangos still performed today. This presentation will include discussion of the challenges and opportunities for singers interested in singing tangos.
Richard Hinrichsen is a Seattle-based lyric bass-baritone who specializes in cowboy songs and vocal tangos from the 1930s. In 2015 he journeyed to Buenos Aires to study vocal tango with Michaela Vita, and to visit the final resting spot and museum of the greatest tango singer who ever lived—Carlos Gardel.
Richard Hinrichsen
Although he died in 1935, Carlos Gardel is still revered as the greatest tango singer who ever lived. For Latin Americans, Carlos Gardel was one of the superstars of his time, starring in several movies which served as vehicles for his beautiful tango singing. Carlos Gardel co-wrote many of the great classic vocal tangos still performed today. This presentation will include discussion of the challenges and opportunities for singers interested in singing tangos.
Richard Hinrichsen is a Seattle-based lyric bass-baritone who specializes in cowboy songs and vocal tangos from the 1930s. In 2015 he journeyed to Buenos Aires to study vocal tango with Michaela Vita, and to visit the final resting spot and museum of the greatest tango singer who ever lived—Carlos Gardel.
Celebrating LGBT Voices in Song
Chuck Dillard
With our LGBT community becoming more openly integrated into today's mainstream culture, let us take a look back at these voices in the 19th and 20th centuries. Using words set to music, these poets and composers were able to tell their stories - most often covertly - through the genre of art song.
Chuck Dillard is a musician at his best while working with others. He was recently appointed as Assistant Professor at Portland State University to create a new graduate program in Collaborative Piano. Previously, he served on faculty at the University of Texas at Austin from 2008 to 2016 assisting to create a similar program. From 2001 to 2005 he was on faculty at Furman University in Greenville, SC as instructor of music theory and staff pianist.
Chuck Dillard
With our LGBT community becoming more openly integrated into today's mainstream culture, let us take a look back at these voices in the 19th and 20th centuries. Using words set to music, these poets and composers were able to tell their stories - most often covertly - through the genre of art song.
Chuck Dillard is a musician at his best while working with others. He was recently appointed as Assistant Professor at Portland State University to create a new graduate program in Collaborative Piano. Previously, he served on faculty at the University of Texas at Austin from 2008 to 2016 assisting to create a similar program. From 2001 to 2005 he was on faculty at Furman University in Greenville, SC as instructor of music theory and staff pianist.
What They Didn't Teach Me In The Conservator Of Music
Tim Carson
For teachers who are training singers for today's commercial music industry (especially those of us who were classically trained), this session will explore the aspects of our long history of classical singing pedagogy that simply don't apply to these singers, as well as outline some critical aspects of style and pedagogy that are often missed in helping these singers develop and succeed. This workshop style presentation will show practical ways to apply the concepts.
Tim Carson is a voice teacher based out of Seattle, WA with clients all over North America singing pop, rock, jazz, and musical theater. Tim’s current students include beginners, as well as professionals that perform in front of tens of thousands every week. Tim earned a Master’s Degree in Voice from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago in 2000, and taught on the faculty at Wheaton College where he developed new courses in non-classical vocal pedagogy and style.
Tim Carson
For teachers who are training singers for today's commercial music industry (especially those of us who were classically trained), this session will explore the aspects of our long history of classical singing pedagogy that simply don't apply to these singers, as well as outline some critical aspects of style and pedagogy that are often missed in helping these singers develop and succeed. This workshop style presentation will show practical ways to apply the concepts.
Tim Carson is a voice teacher based out of Seattle, WA with clients all over North America singing pop, rock, jazz, and musical theater. Tim’s current students include beginners, as well as professionals that perform in front of tens of thousands every week. Tim earned a Master’s Degree in Voice from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago in 2000, and taught on the faculty at Wheaton College where he developed new courses in non-classical vocal pedagogy and style.