Doreen Rao's distinguished career as conductor and master teacher links the standards of professional performance with the goals of music education. Celebrated for her spirited and moving concerts, Rao's commitment to choral music education is recognized in her innovative programming, teaching initiatives, worldwide conducting appearances and her award winning publications with Boosey & Hawkes. Rao holds the University of Toronto Elmer Iseler Chair in Conducting. As the Director of Choral Programs, Dr. Rao founded the Faculty of Music's Centre for Advanced Studies in Choral Music which supports and enriches the Faculty's ensemble and conducting programs, hosts the Elmer Iseler Singers and sponsors the International Bach Festival with Helmuth Rilling. Rao conducts the award-winning University of Toronto MacMillan Singers and Chamber Choirs. Her young ensembles collaborate regularly with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and a roster of internationally celebrated artists and educators. She leads the University's graduate program in conducting performance and teaches graduate research and philosophy courses related to music performance in education.
Recognized as one of the world's leading experts on children and youth choirs, Doreen Rao founded and chaired the ACDA National Committee for Children's Choirs, pioneering work that inspired the children's choir movement in America. In a national tribute presented to her by the American Choral Director's Association, eminent American conductor Robert Shaw wrote, "The world of choral music owes her special thanks. She is preparing our future." During Rao's long association with the Chicago Symphony Chorus, she served as assistant conductor to her mentor Margaret Hillis and prepared choruses for concerts and Grammy Award-winning recordings with Sir Georg Solti, Claudio Abbado, and James Levine. Her choirs also performed on numerous occasions with Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and with Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival.
Following her undergraduate education at the University of Illinois, Rao spent the first years of her career in Chicago singing professionally and teaching choral music in the schools. She served as Music Director and Conductor of the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus, an ensemble that performed and recorded regularly with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Rao's innovative Sing with the Symphony school and family concerts were first introduced by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra to actively involve audiences in listening as performers. In a pioneering career of "firsts," Rao conducts honor choirs, all-state choirs and festival choirs for numerous national and international conferences, associations and performance organizations around the world. Most recently she enjoyed conducting the inspired young Texas All-State Chorus with Orchestra for the Texas Music Educators Association.
Doreen Rao is the Founding Director of the CME Institute for Choral Teacher Education, an internationally acclaimed professional development program for conductors, composers, choirs and teachers. She is the Artistic Director and Conductor of the New Millennium Festival Concerts, an innovative peacemaking initiative with concert series in New York, Toronto and London.
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Opening the Circle Foundations and Reflections The First Foundation - Awareness From the Past, To the Future Learning to Breathe Again The Second Foundation - Mindfulness Core Practice Exercises Conscious Breathing Exercises Intentional Movement Exercises In-formed Vocalization Exercises The Third Foundation - Deep Listening The Fourth Foundation - Well-Being Closing the Circle Preparing the Body to Sing Stretching Exercises Posture for Singing |
Circle of Sound Voice Education is a contemplative approach to singing that blends Eastern breathing meditation and martial art movement forms with Western bel canto vocalization exercises as an inspiring and healthful way of enriching traditional approaches to studio, classroom, and rehearsal pedagogy. Renowned choral conductor and master teacher Doreen Rao, together with taijiquan teacher Bill Perison developed this inspiring cross-cultural vocalization practice after years of observing and conducting vocal groups around the world. Their conscious-breathing, international-movement and informed-vocalization exercises are a powerful and proven practice for all singers and conductors. This book connects the power of singing to the wholeness of body, mind and spirit. The book invites you to make a personal connection to its renewing approach, and bring its healing power to the singers that you guide and inspire.
| 6576 BOOK $14.95 |
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Invitation to Choral Music Experience Principles of Music Performance as Music Education A Curriculum for Classroom Choirs Instructional Methods Role of Teacher/Conductor Finding Your Singing Voice Singing With Musicianship Practice Projects Feeling Time and Reading Rhythm Meter and Meter Signatures Hearing Pitch and Reading Notation Singing Together Performance Projects |
This practical music curriculum is a performance-based textbook for music classrooms designed for children ages 9 and older. Beginning with the basics of how to produce a good singing tone, introducing basic music theory, reading and ear training and progressing into unison choral singing and easy part-singing, this 243-page book offers an insightful, practical approach to classroom music. 18 choral arrangements available in 3 separate Performance Programs.
| 6166 BOOK $21.95 |
Everything you need to train young choirs. Choral Music Experience is a performance-based curriculum for music education developed by award-winning educator Doreen Rao. It brings a new integrated approach to music education, combining the development of performance skills with the acquisition of musical knowledge. In the past, these complementary aspects of music have been taught and treated separately. Today we know that when students perform, they are demonstrating their knowledge - they are singing their understanding. Guided by this performance model, Doreen Rao's Choral Music Experience focuses on distinctive, diverse, multicultural choral repertoire in which students can experience the joy of learning through singing. An invaluable resource for conductors, teachers and student teachers.
Introduction to Choral Music Experience - Music Education Through Choral Singing - Artistry: An Opportunity to Make Music Musical - The Challenge and the Future
| 6277 BOOK $3.75 |
Art - Artistry - Artistic Development in Children - Artistic Development and Choral Music Experience
| 6278 BOOK $5.50 |
What Made Elizabeth Smile? - Artistry and CME - Voice and CME - Text and CME - Expressiveness and CME - Creativity and CME - Kristen's Story: A Summary
| 6279 BOOK $7.50 |
Choral Performance As Education - Basic Principles Of Choral Music Experience - ACDA Video…On Location With Doreen Rao - CME References And Resources
| 6280 BOOK $8.75 |
Vocal Technique and Musical Experience - Vocal Technique - Diction Principles - International Phonetic Alphabet - Becoming More Musical Through Singing - References
| 6281 BOOK $7.50 |
Vocal Technique and Musical Experience - Vocal Technique - Diction Principles - International Phonetic Alphabet - Becoming More Musical Through Singing - References
| 6275 BOOK $29.98 |
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