Conference Schedule NW NATS 2019
I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing!
Technology & Community in Teaching Singing

Welcome to another Northwestern Regional Conference! The place to learn, gather with familiar faces, make new friendships, and fill your bag with new teaching tricks and tools for your studio. This NATS Northwestern Regional Conference is being held in beautiful British-Columbia at the conveniently located Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music, right in downtown Vancouver. This promises to be a wonderful weekend learning opportunity for all NATS teachers, students and colleagues.

We will again be enjoying the exciting NATSAA competition during our regional conference. It will take place in the same location at the beautiful VSO School of Music. The first round will be held on Friday November 1 from 9am-5pm, and the final regional round on Saturday evening, November 2.

All events take place in Pratt Hall of the VSO School unless otherwise indicated.

Friday November 1
NATSAA9 am to 6 pm.  NATSAA Preliminaries - Ensemble Room
Small Audience Welcome

REGISTRATION & MEET AND GREET
4 pm.   Registration Opens - Foyer outside Pyatt Hall
5:00-6:30 pm. Meet and Greet & Vendor tables - Salon
OPENING SESSIONS: COMMUNITY AND COMMUNICATION
(Pyatt Hall)
6:30-7 Opening Ceremony & First People Blessing (Vancouver Chapter)
7-7:50 Communication Skills with S. Rebeqa Rivers
BREAK
8-9:00 Singing Through Change: Working with Women in Midlife, Menopause, and Beyond with Nancy Bos
9-9:30 Community Singalong - Vancouver Chapter
Saturday November 2
MORNING SESSIONS: VOICE PROFESSIONS AND PROFESSIONALS
8:00-9:00 AM Break-out Breakfasts (Academic and Studio)
9:30-10:25 Making Friends with an SLP with Sherri Zelazny
10:30-11:30 Music Therapy: An Interactive Introduction with Stephen Williams
11:30-11:40 Coffee Break

PLENARY SPEAKER: BRIAN HORNE
11:40-12:30 Formants for Dummies with Brian Horne
12:30-1:00 Housekeeping/NATS Foundation
1:00-2:30 Banquet at Glowbal Restaurant

AFTERNOON SESSIONS: REPERTOIRE
2:45-3:45 Masterclass with Brian Horne
3:45-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-4:45 Recalling Schubert’s Winterreise with Catherine Laub
4:45-5:10 Hooray for Hollywood! with Kevin Helppie
5:10-7:00 Dinner (on your own)

EVENING: NATSAA FINALS
7:00-9:30 NATSAA Competition Final Round

Sunday November 3
MORNING SESSIONS: TECHNOLOGY
8:00-9:15 AM Leadership Breakfast with RG, DG’s and Chapter Presidents
9:30-10:20 More Students and Passive Income with Robert J. Lunte
10:30-11:20 Video Auditions for the Performing Arts with Donovan Skaggs
11:30-12:20 YouTube and Online Lessons with Valerie White Williams
12:30-1:00 Wrap-up with a Raffle!