Community Choir Leadership Training: Application

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Application

Many thanks for your interest in the Community Choir Leadership Training Program, taught by Shivon Robinsong and Denis Donnelly. We will need to have some information about your background and previous experience in the areas to be covered in the program. Please respond to these questions to the best of your knowledge. Your answers are important but are not necessarily the only guidelines for your acceptance into the program. Your considered responses will, however, give us information about whether you are suited for the Program and, if so, how we can best assist you in your path towards successfully leading a choir based on the model of the Gettin’ Higher Choir.

The next step in your application is a review of this information and a response from us in the form of a personal phone call from Denis Donnelly and/or Shivon Robinsong.

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How did you hear about the Community Choir Leadership Training program?

For clarification: Do you understand that the program consists of one residency session in Victoria, BC: a two-week session Sunday, September 26 – Saturday, October 9, 2010 followed by 6 months of tele-conference calls (1 per month) plus a year of mentorship by Shivon Robinsong and Denis Donnelly.

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How would you best describe what you want to learn in this program?

Describe any previous experience you have in working with groups of people, whether with music, or in another context.

Describe any previous music training you have had and whether you play a musical instrument and if so, your level of expertise. Please include a self-evaluation of your knowledge of music theory.

What is your background in singing? Have you ever studied voice?

Do you consider yourself fairly well able to sing a line of music while others are singing other harmony lines?

What is your level of music sight-reading? In answering please use the following guide. (Note that this question assumes that the music lines will not be particularly complicated, but would be about the level that community choirs would have to learn.)

I can quite easily sight-read a line of music the first time I see it.
I can work my way through and after a few minutes I could probably sing it ok.
If I had it overnight I could use a piano (or whatever) to figure it out and sing it ok the next day.
I don’t read music very well and would have trouble figuring it out on my own, but I could find someone to help me with it.

How do you see yourself applying what you learn in the program?

Please cut and paste a one-page summary of your background and interests, including educational background and current occupation or work. Feel free to expand as appropriate on any points from the above questionnaire and include anything not otherwise covered. Thank you for this information.