Workshops / Teacher Training

Cross-Choral Training(SM)

Cross-Choral Training™ is the unique method that is forging a new approach to children’s' choral pedagogy. C-CT™ was developed by BYCA's Artistic Director and Founder, Dianne Berkun, in conjunction with Voice Specialist, Jeannette LoVetri, an expert in vocal function, as a holistic approach to building vocal musicians who are capable of responding to the musical and expressive demands of diverse repertoire. It is both functional voice training, based upon voice science and health, and a comprehensive approach to teaching sight-reading and other musicianship skills

Ms. Berkun and Mrs. LoVetri lead vocal and musicianship training workshops for choral directors, voice teachers, music educators and all those interested in furthering the development of young vocal musicians.

This program has been presented in a week long summer workshop in collaboration with New York University's Steinhardt School of Education and in other events throughout the city.

Cross-Choral Training™ workshops address:

Going beyond “warming-up” to real vocal development
Preparing young voices to sing any style of music with ease
Empowering students with music literacy skills
Bringing out the best in your conducting to enliven your performances

C-CT™ Course Content :

Musicianship and Music Literacy: the pedagogy of music reading, sight singing, ear-training and basic music theory.

Score Analysis: how to analyze and prepare your scores for teaching and conducting.

Conducting Practicum: improve your skills by working with a master conductor

Vocal Pedagogy: learn how to healthily build the voices of your students so that they are able to sing all styles of music.

Voice Class: improve your skills by applying Cross-Choral Training(SM) techniques in your own singing by working with a master voice teacher.

Master Classes: try out all you have learned with support and feedback from our team of clinicians and special guests.

"I've never experienced anything like this amount of information being shared by such experts in such a generous spirit of collegiality." - past C-CT participant