Singing in the Classroom

The Greater Manchester Music Hub is an exciting an innovative partnership between local Music Services and regional and national partner organisations which has been set up to safeguard and develop the music education for children and young people across the Greater Manchester region.We are committed to providing the highest quality music education and the best expertise which the region has to offer. Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan are working together to secure the best musical opportunities for all children across the region.The Greater Manchester Music Hub brings together a wide range of partners from across the region and also nationally. Each partner has specific expertise to bring and this huge resource is now being harnessed and targeted to areas of most need across Greater Manchester. We are all committed to raising standards, avoiding duplication and getting the very best outcomes for all young people.Partner Organisations in the Hub: The Halle, BBC Philharmonic, Brighter Sound, Chetham’s School of Music, Charanga, Greater Manchester Arts Officers Network, Manchester Camerata, Manchester Metropolitan University, Music Unlimited, Royal Northern College of Music, University of Salford, Sing for Pleasure, The Voices Foundation.Music can transform children's lives and we want to work with local families, schools and other organisations to make sure that all children get the chance to PLAY music, ACHIEVE great things and INSPIRE others.

Greater Manchester Music Hub

Cambiata Voices Twilight 1
Delivered by Ian Crawford
How to get boys singing!

Halle St  Peter's

This session will focus on how to use cambiata/changing voice approaches to encourage
boys to keep singing during voice change (KS3-4).
We will briefly explore the physiology of boys’ vocal change and how this links with their
developing/changing identities (who am I?) before moving on to explore and try out
practical approaches that can be used in the classroom/rehearsal room. Topics will include:
warmups for changing voices, choosing effective repertoire that your group will love to
sing, classroom/rehearsal room layout, how to structure and run a changing voice
rehearsal, what to do with Y7/unchanged voices. Ian Crawford is Director of Music at The
 King’s School in Macclesfield and musical director of Cambiata North West. He has
 arranged music for cambiata voices, including The Gospel Train for the Emerging Voices
 series (Oxford University Press).
Ian Crawford
Musical Director, Cambiata North West &amp; Director of Music, The King’s School in Macclesfield
Ian Crawford is a composer, conductor and teacher. As a music teacher and Director of
Music, Ian has over ten years’ experience of creating and growing successful, highly
popular cambiata/changing voice programmes in secondary schools (both single-sex and
co-educational settings).
Ian has been Musical Director of Cambiata North West (abcd’s regional choir for boys
whose voices are changing) since 2014. That year, they appeared in the War Horse Prom at
the Royal Albert Hall and were subsequently invited to perform at abcd’s 2015 International
Gala Concert (RNCM) where they received a standing ovation from over 200 choral
directors. Ian is regularly invited to speak at UK conferences and lead workshops for
changing voice groups across the country.
A prolific composer and arranger of music for changing voices, Ian’s work is published by
Oxford University Press in their ground-breaking Emerging Voices series. Two volumes of
his arrangements, Changing Voices and Changing Voices Christmas, were published by
Novello in 2017. For more information about Ian’s music for changing voices, including his
latest work, please visit his website: www.redscarfmusic.co.uk

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