The Learning Conductor
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In his book, The Learning Conductor, Thomas Caplin examines the complex interaction between conductor and choir with a combination of professional expertise and dynamic involvement. Caplin's comprehensive analysis brings to our awareness the many aspects involved in leading a choir, and offers singers and conductors alike revelatory new ways in which to create fantastic musical experiences together.
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作者简介
I received my education as a singer, conductor and choral pedagogue at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen and at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. Since 1989 I have been working at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and today as professor in choral conducting and management I enjoy teaching musical leadership, mainly students in the music teacher training program.
For three decades I have had the privilege of sharing my thoughts and philosophies about choral leadership internationally as clinician, guest conductor and lecturer, with emphasis on the psychological/pedagogical aspects of choral leadership, coupled with the traditional perspectives of choral conducting. My encounters with young novices as well as established choral conductors around the world, have all given me the belief that the things my co-authors and I talk about, meet a growing demand to a change in how we look upon the leadership of a choir. I do believe there is a real change – and hopefully this material will help those who pursue a holistic and democratic way leading the choir, in building an ever growing consciousness about it, through your own learning processes.
The many assignments as adjudicator in international choir competitions have also give me a strong incentive that this is important.
This book was first introduced to the Norwegian market in 1993, followed up by a Swedish edition in 2000. Revising it and translating it into English has been a long and useful process for me, and I now hope it will find its way to colleagues - and future colleagues - outside Scandinavia.
I hope you will find it useful for your purpose, whether you are the experienced conductor who should read the book from the back to front, or you are the curious novice beginning at the beginning of the book. Regardless, what it all boils down to is that leadership of a choir never is about you – it’s always about how you can help your singers into human and musical growth.