#10 Annie Kwok

Annie Kwok is the Assistant Head of Performing Arts at Pulteney Grammar School in Adelaide. She's a classroom music teacher, an award-winning composer, a colourful character, and of course, a choir leader.

 

Expect to learn:

• What it’s like to be a LIVING composer (as opposed to a dead one)
• Who has “the attention span of an amoeba”
• How sol fa helps with key changes
• What it means to be a “sympathetic singer”
• How to use the audition to get to know your singers, not just to pick your team
• How important it is for singers (even adults!) to feel noticed by their choir conductor
• Why it’s important to know what your choristers want, how to make opportunities for that in rehearsals
• What we learned from the Hungarians at the James Cuskelly Summer School
• How Annie gets choral “X-ray vision” and what it takes to unlock this power
• How “evolved” your choristers are, and whether their evolution has stopped…
• What makes Australian choirs different
• And much more...