CME Institute for Choral Teacher Education
Doreen Rao, Ph.D., Founder-Director
Lee Kesselman, Associate Director
It is with great joy that we officially announce the newly integrated CME Institute for Choral Teacher Education with the New Millennium Festival Concerts. As an education through music performance initiative, both these programs developed from Doreen Rao's pioneering commitment to children and youth choirs around the world, and from her passion to empower the next generation of young singers and choral educators through innovative and inspirational choral music festivals.
The combined New Millennium Festival and CME Institute exists as an educational program that concerns both the professional development of choral teachers and the music education of children and youth through concert performance. We are pleased to announce that Mandy Miller is now serving as the newly appointed Executive Director with Festival and Institute support staff at work in England, Canada and the United States.
The NM Festival's comprehensive musicianship program for choristers offers a rich and interactive series of daily voice instruction, musicianship and movement classes, composer workshops, rehearsals and master classes with guest artists and faculty. The CME Institute's professional development program for conductors offers daily voice education, contemplative arts classes, score analysis, conducting technique, rehearsal pedagogy and conducting master classes with Doreen Rao.
Throughout the week, the NM Festival features evening concerts and lecture-demonstrations by participating choirs and faculty artists plus optional CME Institute workshops and choral reading sessions for all participants and guests. The merging of CME Institute for Choral Teacher Education with the New Millennium Festival gives both participating choristers and conductors the opportunity to grow independently and together in a talented community of singers, conductors and composers studying and performing together – As choristers and conductor participants have said many times over, CME is the week of a lifetime.
New Millennium Festival Concerts
New Millennium Festival Concerts — As a new music education through performance initiative, New Millennium Festival Concerts emerged from Doreen Rao’s pioneering commitment to children and youth choirs around the world, and from her passion to empower the next generation of young artists through the artistic, social and spiritual meaning of choral musical experience. Dedicated to the premiere performances of new music and the music education of children and youth, the New Millennium Festival seeks to engage and inspire young artists and their audiences around the world.
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