The Happy Choir Podcast is growing! Here is what you’ll learn

I know Podcast’s posts are on Tuesdays buuut… I wanted to steal this Monday to tell you how much is out there in The Happy Choir Podcast, in case you are looking to jump to any of the episodes and don’t know which one to choose. I want to learn more about the choral world and these interviews are teaching me a great deal!

I’ve not only shared a lot about my experience but I’ve also had amazing guests and have many more coming up (hopefully the coronavirus let us keep working and sharing).

So, let’s get to what you will find in these different episodes of The Happy Choir Podcast:

Learn about starting your own choir

Many of you out there have always dreamed with starting your own choir. I know I have! It is such an exciting idea that I can’t wait to make happen one day. I also know that it is not easy and that there are far more tasks to do than just call people and sing songs.

No worries! I have several episodes for you to know all that these people made to make it happen and succeed. Their ups and downs and how they are working hard to keep up and succeed.

• HCP 16: Casulana’s Women Chorus on creating a women chorus after 20+ years as choral school directors
• HCP 18: Robbie Labanca on founding a choir specialized in new music and the commission of new music by a living composer

Learn how to shape your career and your organization in the choral arts

In my journey to become a composer and to create The Happy Choir as a brand, I’ve had to be creative. I started in med school and went into studying a lot to become a singer, to later realize that composition was the main job for me. It was where I felt best at, however I also discovered that I needed to shape things for my own sake.

I didn’t want to just be a composer, or just be a singer. I needed to take the best of all the worlds and create the journey that I wanted for me to connect with others through choral music. The guests in these episodes also explain how they did it for themselves and their organizations and how it is affecting their lives for the best!

• HCP 14: Anna Diemer on How To Be Organized and Take Baby Steps to Further Your Career as a Choral Singer
• HCP 15: Brent Baldwin on how to manage a career being a performer, conductor, and composer.
• HCP 17: Ryan Heller on programming beyond the masterpieces in the community choir and second and third performances of new pieces
• HCP 19: Matthew Lyon Hazzard on shaping your career in the choral arts

Learn how to connect with others through choral music

I say it all the time. I write it all the time. The best part of this career is that I get to connect with awesome people, music, memories. So much that happens thanks to choral music. I am a just a guy here who connects with others through choral music (aka, choral geek or nerd, no?). These episodes are also a great source to see how these guests, and me, have done it through the course of their career.

• HCP 13: Connecting with your audience through your performance
• HCP 17: Ryan Heller on programming beyond the masterpieces in the community choir and second and third performances of new pieces
• HCP 20: Mark Buller and Leah Lax on writing Overboard and collaborating with artists of other disciplines

I loved doing this post so I’ll make sure to make more of these help guides to ease your way into fantastic interviews with choral pioneers and leaders.

Hugs!