Transform Your Choir’s Sound – Exceptional Choral Singing with Bel Canto Principles
University of Alberta professor Dr. Laurier Fagnan has generously offered to make this video available free of charge to Choir Alberta members during the COVID-19 pandemic. The video provides a unique opportunity to continue to learn and develop your voice at a time when we are unable to come together for rehearsals. Our heartfelt thanks to Dr. Fagnan for sharing this invaluable resource.
Please feel free to share this link with others, but we would ask you not to download the file to your computer. You can return here to watch as often as you’d like. If you would like to purchase your own copy of the DVD ($40 hard copy or $30 for the high-resolution digital download), which includes a 22-page booklet explaining the principles, please visit http://transformyourchoir.com/dvd/. You can also contact Dr. Fagnan directly by email at lfagnan@ualberta.ca.
Please feel free to share this link with others, but we would ask you not to download the file to your computer. You can return here to watch as often as you’d like. If you would like to purchase your own copy of the DVD ($40 hard copy or $30 for the high-resolution digital download), which includes a 22-page booklet explaining the principles, please visit http://transformyourchoir.com/dvd/. You can also contact Dr. Fagnan directly by email at lfagnan@ualberta.ca.
Wishing you all the best in your ongoing vocal and choral development as we continue in our virtual singing world until we can once again come together to sing the way we were meant to! A few words about this DVD: The total length is approximately 75 minutes. There are several chapters, but I would suggest watching linearly from the beginning as the principles are organized in a cumulative fashion, i.e. each one builds upon what has been learned in the previous chapters. Watching it in its entirety from the beginning will also help you to understand the terminology (much of it Italian) used throughout. Best of luck as we all battle this thing together and come out singing on the other side! -L. Fagnan
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DR. LAURIER FAGNAN
With a doctorate in choral conducting (U of A / IRCAM, Paris) and a master’s degree in vocal pedagogy (U. Laval), there is nothing Laurier Fagnan enjoys more than inspiring singers to make the most beautiful sound possible. He has served as guest conductor and vocal coach for many choral festivals and has offered hundreds of workshops in vocal technique to choirs from Whitehorse to Seattle to Paris. He was awarded a generous grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to establish Canada’s first Vocal Acoustics Laboratory at Campus Saint-Jean of the University of Alberta, where he has conducted the very dynamic Chorale Saint-Jean since 1995. Dr. Fagnan was keynote speaker at the general assembly of the European Choral Federation in Bulgaria and has presented his research on choral acoustics and bel canto vocal principles at several international conferences. He has recently launched a DVD on vocal technique for choirs, which incorporates bel canto vocal principles applied to choral singing and is currently writing a book on bel canto vocal pedagogy. Recent highlights include conducting at international festivals in Vaison-la-Romaine, France and Domaine Forget, Québec as well as presenting at the National Conference of the American Choral Directors’ Association and the Acoustical Society of America in Salt Lake City. Dr. Fagnan recently completed a post-graduate certificate in Vocology in the US and served as co-Chair of Podium 2016, Canada’s national conference and festival of choral singing. He was guest conductor at the 40th anniversary of the Académie internationale du Domaine Forget (Québec) and made his conducting debut at Carnegie Hall in New York in May of 2018. Dr. Fagnan has previously served as president of Choir Alberta and was recently named President Elect of Choral Canada, Canada’s national association of choirs and choral conductors. |