ICCP

This programme offers an opportunity for musicians with an interest in conducting a children’s choir to attend a residential course and observe professionals with a wide range of experience in this field. This involves being in a stimulating, creative environment, with talented children from throughout the UK who are highly motivated and enthusiastic. The choir’s repertoire covers a wide variety of genres, both sacred and secular.

The programme is designed to give participants an awareness of choral conducting, planning and executing rehearsals, the music education of children and the appropriate all-round care that is required. To that end, we expect applicants to have a good music education themselves, but to be at the beginning of their choral conducting journey, for example, a music degree student for whom choral conducting does not form part of their course, an ECT seeking to further their skills with a view to starting a school choir, a gap year student who may be thinking of choral conducting in the future. Participants are offered the opportunity to attend one course only.