Provisional Timetable
Thursday
11am Coffee & Welcome
11.30am Session 1 Keynote Speaker – Simon Toyne:
Choristership, cognitive development and curriculum
11.45am Move between sessions
12.20pm Session 2 Parallel Paper:
Hanna Rijken – Living Heritage: Experiences of Choral Evensong in the Netherlands
Eleanor Clarke – Choral Singing: A Profession for the Privately Educated and Well Connected?
12.50pm Lunch
1.35pm Session 3 Parallel Paper:
Ben Saunders – Scaling the Choral Tradition: A Comparative Analysis of Advocacy-led and Infrastructure-based Models for National Impact
and TBC
2.05pm Move between sessions
2.10pm Session 4 Keynote Speaker – Rebecca Berkley:
Building a pipeline: Working with partnership primary schools to deliver a foundation music curriculum for future Chorister training
2.55pm Tea/coffee and browse stalls
3.15pm Session 5 Parallel Paper:
Bronwyn Thies-Thompson – Canadian Cathedral Music – A Uniquely Diverse, Hybrid Tradition: A Survey of Pedagogy, Practice, and Institutions in the Current Canadian Sacred Choral Music Landscape
Simone Krüger Bridge – Flourishing through Choral Outreach and Participation: A Comparative Study of Cathedral Choral Programmes across Contrasting English Contexts
3.45pm Move between sessions
3.50pm Session 6: TBC
5.15pm Evensong
6.15pm Drinks Reception
7pm Dinner with after-dinner speech
Friday
9am Session 7 Keynote Speakers – Andrew Carwood MBE and William Bruce:
Access, Pathways and Educational Progression: Designing Impact in Cathedral Music
9:45am Move between sessions
9:50am Session 8 Parallel Paper:
Meg Rees – The Development of Chorister Identity in Cathedral Choir Auditions and Rehearsals
and TBC
10:20am Tea/Coffee and browse stalls
10:40am Session 9 Parallel Paper:
Tim Williams – Accommodating Different Learning Styles in Church and Cathedral Choirs
and TBC
11:10am Move between sessions
11:15am Session 10: TBC
12pm Lunch
12:45pm Session 11 Parallel Paper:
Lucy Poole – Perceptions of the changing adolescent female singing voice
Louisa Denby & James Potter – Bridging the Gap: The Cambridge Choral Foundation Scheme
1.15pm Move between sessions
1.20pm Session 12 Keynote Speaker – James McEvoy-Stevenson: Raising aspirations and advancing social justice through cathedral music
2.05pm Plenary/Feedback survey
2.30pm Departures