ACVI Summer Training Program for Contemporary Singers
June 27-29, 2025
Halifax, NS
**Special offer for NSCF Singers** – enter the code NSCF150 at checkout for $150 off the cost of this year’s program!
The ACVI Summer Training Program is back with an incredible faculty line up and a new LEVELLED program to accommodate beginner, intermediate and advanced singers.
Join us this June for three days of informative and engaging workshops focused on technique, performance practices and creative work for singers of contemporary styles. Do you love to sing pop, rock, jazz, R&B, and folk? Or maybe you are a classically trained singer that wants to broaden your knowledge of CCM-specific training! Topics covered include vocal technique for CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music) singing including registration, mixing and belting, harmonizing by ear, improvisation, songwriting, arranging, microphone technique, performance confidence, conquering stage anxiety, and more!
Our 2025 faculty includes Zoe Leger, Rachael Delano,
Frances Farrell, Linda Carvery, Elise Besler, Breagh Isabel, Noah Malcolm, Jah’Mila, Aquakultre (Lance Sampson), Edward Enman, Holly Arsenault and Adam Johnson.
Thinking of posting your choir’s performance online? Not sure what the latest required steps are?
Choral Canada’s Student Chapter Committee has put together a webinar with presenters from SOCAN and the Canadian League of Composers to provide practical and helpful information to demystify the rules around synchronization (sync) licenses. This webinar will cover the licensing process, special considerations for choirs and singing groups, how to work with composers and publishers, and what to avoid.
Bring your questions and leave with clarity and confidence!
Advanced registration is required. This webinar is available to members of Choral Canada only*.
* While membership fees are an important part of our operating budget, we strongly believe they should never be a barrier to accessing our programs and services. That’s why we offer a pay-what-you-can membership option for anyone who needs it. For those who might be in a position to pay more for their membership, please consider selecting the full-price “Individual” or “Student” membership and adding a donation during the payment process. Your support helps us keep the pay-what-you-can option available for others.
Due to the announcement of our current Choir Director’s retirement at the end of our Spring 2025 season, the East Hants Community Chorale (EHCC) is seeking a new Choir Director, beginning in September 2025. EHCC is a welcoming, non-auditioned SAB/SATB choir of 40+ members, who meet from mid-September to mid-May. The choir performs 2 concerts per year, usually in early December and May. We are looking for a Choir Director with experience working with adult SATB and has a sense of humour to make weekly rehearsals fun and engaging! Please review the attached posting a end applications with the subject heading “Choral Director” to ehcommunitychorale@gmail.com We will accept applications until the position is filled, with the interview process beginning in June 2025.
Summer Study July 21 – August 1, 2025 Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia
KSNS is thrilled to announce the return of summer study to Nova Scotia/Mi’kma’ki! Join Maureen Dunn & Dr László Norbert Nemes who will be instructors for *Kodály Level I and II being held in Kjipuktuk/Halifax.
This two week intensive program is designed to strengthen personal musicianship and pedagogical skills, as well as deepen understandings of Zoltán Kodály’s philosophy & how it lives in the 21st Century. Participants will explore child-centered, culturally affirming activities in singing, moving, reading, writing, listening, and creating that will foster student love for music making and inform personal teaching practice, all within a supportive learning environment. Classes run Monday-Friday, 8am-4:15pm.
To register or for more information, please contact presidentksns@gmail.com
Some great opportunities for professional coming up soon!
Learn from the incredible Susan Brumfield, Professor of Music at Texas Tech University (and Guest Conductor for Children’s Chorus of Nova Scotia 2025)!
Read More about Susan below!
Opportunity #1 – CCNS Weekend – Professional Development for Leaders:
April 11 & 12 – FREE – OPEN rehearsals for observation with the Children’s Chorus of Nova Scotia. First United Church Hall, Prince St, Truro. Friday: 10 – 12, 1:00 – 5:00. Saturday: 9:30 – 12:00
April 13 – CCNS Final Concert! 3:00pm – First United, Prince St. Truro – 125 singers from across the province!
Join Susan for a 2 hour workshop for Music Educators, Conductors, Singing Leaders and Music Students. TWO for ONE interactive, soul and tool-kit filling workshops! Come after school to absorb fun, transferrable activities that work in the elementary & junior high classroom, choir and band!
#1 – Sing It In Your Head: From Listening to Inner Hearing #2 – Improvisation in the Kodály Approach
Workshop Dates/Locations:
April 10, 2025- New Glasgow – 4:30pm – 6:30pm –North Nova Education Centre, 343 Park St
April 14, 2025 – Annapolis Valley – 4:30-6:30pm – Kings County Academy, 35 Gary Pearl Dr
Please select your location during registration below.
Registration Fees:
NSCF Individual Members/Leaders of Group Members: FREE NSCF Non-members: $20 per person
Payment can be made via etransfer to nscfadmin@nscf.ca. Please use the security answer SUSAN.
***Individual memberships are available for $35 per year. Student Group Membership is $55 per year. Available here: www.nscf.ca website – Visit the membership page for more details.
Dr. Susan Brumfield is Professor of Music Education at Texas Tech University, and holds a Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Oklahoma. She is in high demand throughout the United States and Europe as a clinician, consultant, author, composer, arranger and choral conductor. An internationally recognized expert in the Kodály approach, Dr. Brumfield is the author of First, We Sing! Kodály-Inspired Teaching in the Music Classroom (Hal Leonard), a set of Kodály-based of curriculum and resource materials for K-5 music.
Dr. Brumfield is Founder and Artistic Director of The West Texas Children’s Chorus – with four choirs consisting of singers from Kindergarten through college, serving children throughout the South Plains area, and serves as a teaching lab for TTU Music Education students. The choirs have performed at the Texas Music Educators’ Conference, national conferences of the Organization of American Kodály Educators and the American Orff Schulwerk Association, and has been featured in concerts at Carnegie Hall and other prestigious venues in NYC. www.wtccsings.com.
Dr. Brumfield was honored in both 2012 and 2014 with the Texas Tech University College of Visual and Performing Arts Award for Outstanding Research, and as a two-time finalist for the President’s Book Award. In 2015, Dr. Brumfield was the recipient of the Louisiana Tech University Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award.
Join us on Sunday, April 13 at 3pm,First United Church in Truro, to hear 125 children from around Nova Scotia, raising their voices together in song!
For the first time since 2019, this program brings children from community and school choirs across the province together in their love of singing. A fun, challenging and inspiring opportunity, CCNS singers work with a team of conductors and music educators who are respected both in Nova Scotia and Internationally.
This year’s guest conductor for the final weekend of the program is Dr. Susan Brumfield, celebrated conductor, educator and pedagogue who will be visiting us from Texas Tech University. Also a part of the artistic team is Halifax collaborative pianist Pam Burton.
We will also welcome special guest performers the Cantabile Children’s Choir, and the New Glasgow Youth Choir.
Join us to celebrate these singers and this program! Sunday, April 13, 3pm at First United Church in Truro. Tickets: $20 | $5 students
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Yesterday, composer Paul Aitken’s piece, Missa Pro Terra, A Mass for the Earth had its Carnegie Hall debut! Cantabile Choirs (Truro) premiered it back in March with Paul conducting (Paul now lives in Parrsboro!) and some Cantabile singers made the trek to New York this past week to share on the big stage! Congratulations to all involved!
“Missa Pro Terra is not just a musical composition; it’s a powerful statement about our planet and the urgent need to address environmental issues. Aitken’s work serves as a call to action, drawing attention to the environmental challenges we face and the importance of protecting the earth for future generations. As we share these snippets leading up to the Carnegie Hall performance, we invite you to reflect on both the beauty of the music and teh message it carries about the environment’s future.”
Missa Pro Terra, A Mass for the Earth, is available for purchase at JW Pepper.
Community Grants provide annual cash grants to registered non-profit organizations and charities located throughout the Halifax region. There are two types of grants: a project grant of up to $5,000 OR a capital grant of up to $25,000.
The Grants to Professional Arts Organizations Program supports the operating and artistic capacity of Halifax-based professional arts organizations to develop and present artistic work as well as strengthen their capacity. We have two streams of funding, Operating Assistance, and Project Assistance.
