Online Courses & Offerings

Expand your choir’s repertoire with drop-in experts in their fields

 

Village Harmony Online Programs for university, high school and community choirs

Village Harmony has developed an ever-expanding online teaching resource library for choir directors looking to collaborate via zoom with expert teachers across the globe.

 

We can offer your choir a tailor-made, one-off workshop, multi-week or semester-long program, or even a year-long series of guest teachers.

Our teachers currently offering online courses:

extended bios and course offerings coming soon

  • Emma Björling (Sweden)

  • Matlakala Bopape (South Africa)

  • Sandra Canizares (Cuba)

  • Olaolu Lawal (Nigeria)

  • Bongani Magatyana (South Africa)

  • Samira Merdzanic (Bosnia)

  • Sophie Michaux (France)

  • Emily Miller (W. Virginia)

  • Ketevan Mindorashvili (Republic of Georgia)

  • Lonnie Norwood (Chicago)

  • Reza Saffari (Iran)

  • Suzannah Park (North Carolina)

  • Polina Shepherd (Yiddish, London)

  • Lala Simpson (Madagascar)

  • Elitsa Stoyneva-Krastev (Bulgaria)

  • Medicine Tail (Native American)

  • Nadia Tarnawsky (Ukraine)

  • Frederic Vesperini (Corsica)

  • Nicholas Williams (Quebec)

Our aim is dual-fold. The project provides much-needed income to our teachers. And the program provides a valuable interface for singers of all levels to learn songs directly and authentically from musician experts in many of the worlds greatest non-Western choral traditions: from South Africa, the Republic of Georgia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Corsica, Cuba and the American Appalachian and African-American communities.

How does it work?

Using Village Harmony’s online learning platform, resources provided to participating choirs include digital rehearsal material—audio or video individual voice part recordings and performance tracks, scores /wordsheets/translations, pronunciation tracks, background resources. These back-up teaching files compliment a live zoom lesson that we set up for your choir with a tradition bearer, who will introduce and teach the voice parts directly to your students, model authenticity and provide essential historical and personal background about the song.

 

“It's incredible to have this level of gifted, inspiring musicians from all over the world... we wouldn't have this breadth of musical experience in person!! Thank you Village Harmony!”

Who have we worked with?

Harvard University, Purdue University, University of Minnesota, Augsburg University, Baltimore Choral Arts, University of San Diego, Coastline Colleges, Orange Coast College, Wellesley College, Muhlenberg College, Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Quechee Waldorf School, Upper Valley Waldorf School, Orange County Women’s Chorus and the Chicago Children’s Choir, as well as a number of regional school music festivals.

 

Contact us to set up a private zoom meeting for a tour of our programs and to discuss what we might offer for your choir.

 

“I want to thank you for this workshop series. I’ve been doing various online musics all during the pandemic, but have really enjoyed the variety of traditions here. And you’ve done a great job with all the materials made available to us, wrangling the technology, etc.”