Henry Leck choral music educator

An internationally recognized choral director, Henry Leck is an associate professor and Director of Choral Activities at Butler University where he conducts the Butler University Choir and teaches conducting and music education classes. Mr. Leck is widely known as a specialist in choral techniques, the child's voice and boy's changing voice. He is a regular guest faculty member at various universities, such as Westminster Choir College, Universities of Wisconsin, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Missouri, North Carolina, Southern Illinois, Belmont University, Akron University, Berkeley Pacific School of Religion, and Appalachian State University.

In 1986 he became the Founder and Artistic Director of the Indianapolis Children's Choir which is now a program of approximately 1200 children in twelve choirs in residence at Butler University in Indianapolis and two affiliate choirs, plus an early childhood division. Since its inception, the choir has become one of the premiere music education and performing organizations having performed often by audition for national professional music organizations, such as the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) 1989/1993/1997, Music Educators National Conference (MENC) 1988/1994, the Organization of American Kodaly Educators (OAKE) 1993/1999, the American Orff-Schulwerk Assoc. (AOSA) 1993, the Collegiate Music Society (CMS) and the National Music Librarians Association. In addition, the choir has performed concert tours in Wales, England, Scotland, France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Australia, Norway, New Zealand, Canada, Argentina, Brazil and throughout the United States, including four performances in Carnegie Hall, 1990/1994/1996/1997. In addition to its own concert series, the choir performs regularly with professional symphony orchestras, including the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and has shared the stage with various professional ensembles, such as the world-famous Canadian Brass and The Chieftains. The Indianapolis Children's Choir has made a number of professional recordings, including the acclaimed "Rejoice, with Brass and Voice" with the Canadian Brass.

Mr. Leck founded the Indiana All-State Children's Honor Choir and the Indiana Middle/Junior High School Honors Choir which he conducted for three years each. He has conducted Mixed, Men's, Women's, Junior High and Children's All-State Choirs and festival choirs in nearly every state. He is also a frequent conductor of regional and national honors choirs. He has conducted the ACDA Southern, Southwest, North Central and Northwest Divisional Honors Choirs and will be conducting the Northwest Division Junior High Honor Chioir in 2002. In 2001 ad 2002, he will be conducting the Pacific Rim Festival in Hawaii. He regularly conducts the National Youth Choral Festival in Carnegie Hall. In 1994 and 1997 he conducted the National Youth Choral Festival Children's Choir in the National Festival of the Arts in the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC with Lucas Foss and the Academy of music in Philadelphia with Leonard Slatkin. In 1996 he conducted the OAKE National Children's Honor Choir and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1998 he conducted OAKE National Choir again in New Orleans. He conducts in Europe frequently including the Musica Mundi Tuscany Festival in 2000 and conducts the International Children's Choral Festival in Canterbury and York, England annually. He has conducted theCurso Internacional de Regencia Coral in Rio de Janeiro the Cuerso International de Regencia Coral in Sao Paulo and was a Clinician for the Australian National Choral Association and the Royal School of Church Music Summer School of Choral Trainers and Conductors, and the International Choral Workshop in Stavanger,Norway. Mr. Leck is certified as a "Kodaly"instructor and is an active member of ACDA, OAKE, MENC and Pi Kappa Lambda.

Vocal Techniques For the Young Singers

Mental Focus
Singers' Posture
Relaxation Exercises
Breathing
Pitch Memory
Vowel Formation
Vowel Uniformity
Vowel Modification
Vocal Modeling
Learning Anchors
Choral Tuning
Variety of Choral Timbre
Stylistic Artistry

An approach to teaching vocal technique utilizing the advantages of visualization, movement and aural modeling. The purpose of this DVD is to demonstrate the basic vocal techniques taught by Mr. Leck to the students of the Indianapolis Children's Choir. It includes mental focus, breathing, posture, and vowel forming exercises. The DVD includes a written description of each exercise with accompaniment. The teaching on this DVD is unique in its approach to the use of the primary learning anchors: Aural, Visual, Kinesthetic Movement and Physical. As guest artist and vocal model, Steve Rickards, a world-known countertenor, demonstrates vocal technique through the use of his voice, a frisbee and a slinky! The DVD also includes exercises and vocalises to improve choral intonation and tone.

6431 DVD $39.95

Creating Artistry Through Movement in the Choral Setting

Dalcroze Eurhythmics is a unique approach to the study of music. Based on rhythm as the primary factor that bridges what we hear with what we do, Eurhythmics can be used in the choral setting to develop rhythmic independence in the singers, inner hearing, and the nuances in music. Through Dalcroze Eurhrythmics, singers can enjoy the benefits of purposeful expressive movement to enhance choral rehearsals and performances. This 1-hour DVD provides detailed approaches to the use of Eurhythmics within the classroom or rehearsal setting and offers a guide to building choral artistry through movement.

6366 DVD $34.95

The Boy's Changing Voice (Take The High Road)

Join Henry Leck and a choir made up of young male singers from the Indianapolis Children's Choir and the Indianapolis Youth Chorale. They explore the historical, physical, emotional, and individual musical perspective of the boy's changing voice as well as how the process affects the choral ensemble as a whole. This video offers choir directors, studio voice teachers and young singers the opportunity to examine the process of vocal maturation and how that process might be approached within the choral ensemble. Includes warmups and vocal exercises, ranges and guidelines for vocal classification, technical data, interviews with several young singers, and several excerpts of solo and choral repertoire in performance.

6228 DVD $29.95

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