workshop women choir

The joy of singing beautiful works for women,
the development of voice,
meetings between the singers of various choirs.

stage de choeur de femmes dirigé par Evelyne Béché

For whom?

This workshop is for all women amateur singer, sight-reading or not, who whish to deepen their practice of choral singing, through various works. Two conditions:

having studied the scores before the workshop(with the help of piano work files available for each participant), in order to focus on musicality, interpretation, etc... during the sessions,
commitment to attending all sessions.

Programme

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)

3 motets opus 39 (Veni Domine, Laudate pueri, Surrexit pastor bonus)

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Ave Verum Corpus

Karl Jenkins (1944- ...)

Adiemus

Franck Pourcel (pseudonym J.W. Stole), Paul Mauriat (pseudonym Del Roma)

I will follow him (excerpt from "Sister Act")

Concert on the evening of 23 June 2012, with the Choir of the University of Maine.

The choirmaster

Evelyne Béché, chef de choeur, chef d'orchestre

Graduate in music education, sight-reading, chamber music, analysis, singing (with honors), and saxophone (gold medal) at the National Music School (ENM) of Le Mans (France), Evelyne Béché is a professor in several music schools in the department of Sarthe (Pays de la Loire, France).

website: http://evelynebeche.olympe-network.com/

Excerpt of a rehearsal

Veni Domine, Mendelssohn - before a concert, Ruillé-sur-Loir (Sarthe, France), 15 March 2009

1 month later... here.

Association organizer - Contact

This workshop is organised by the Choir of the University of Maine, conducted by Evelyne Béché.

Website: http://www.choeur-universite-du-maine.fr/

Contact: chorum@univ-lemans.fr

Fees

Members of the association

"Chœur de l'Université du Maine"

Non members of the association

"Chœur de l'Université du Maine"

55 €

65 € ^(*)

- Payment with cheque payable to "Chœur de l'Université du Maine".

- Easy terms on demand.

^(*) including 10 € for membership to the association "Chœur de l'Université du Maine" for insurance reasons.

This price includes:
- all three sessions (i.e. 12:45 of singing) and the concert on the last day; each session will begin with 45 minutes of warm-up and vocal technique (this important work of relax and warm-up is not optional),
- downloadable scores on a website, with piano work files, voice by voice, in order to allow the sight-reading upstream the workshop,
- a 45 minutes pause-friendly in the afternoon around a snack.

Map

Université du Maine, Le Mans, Sarthe (France)
Mean of access: trolley, stop Campus Ribay.

Prefabricated buildings of Science and Technic department (UFR Sciences et Techniques inf french), former culture department of University of Maine (see map).

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salle culture Université du Maine, Le Mans

Location of the culture department. Click for a zoom.