The Choir Director Corner Podcast
The Choir Director Corner Podcast is dedicated to providing choir directors with practical resources to utilize in their teaching. Matt Walker, the creator of The Choir Director Corner, reveals the teaching strategies, methods, and workflows that he has used in building a successful choral program. Discover tips and strategies that will help you save time amidst your busy schedule, run more productive, engaging and efficient rehearsals, and help you tackle your biggest teaching challenges.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 104
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
022. Tips for Moving from Online Choir Back to In-Person Rehearsals
With Covid positivity rates going down and the vaccine being rolled out, many choir directors have been asking questions about going back to in-person rehearsals. So in this episode of the podcast, …
021. Five of my Favorite Choir Warm-Ups for Teaching Vocal Technique
In my world, it’s absolutely essential that I teach vocal technique in rehearsal. Singers have so many demands on their time, it seems that I have fewer and fewer students each year who study voice …
020. The Simple System for Organizing Your Choral Library
So, what’s your choral library look like these days? Music all over the place? Stacks piled up, impossible to find anything? I get it, I’ve been there! But in today’s episode I describe my simple,…
019. Nine Resources That You May Not Have Heard Of to Find Great Choir Repertoire
I've been seeing all types of questions lately about finding choir repertoire; directors looking for specific pieces, or repertoire for specific ensembles, or just questions where to look for reperto…
018. Must Have iOS Apps for the Choir Director
If you've listened to the podcast at all, you can probably tell--I'm an iOS guy. I've had an iPhone for several years, I love my MacBook Pro, and I am excitedly waiting for my new iPad Air to arrive…
017. Ten Positivity Tips for 2021
I’ve been noticing a LOT of people that have been REALLY down in the dumps lately. And the way that things have gone the past several months, you cannot blame anyone for being on the struggle bus ri…
016. Forget Resolutions--Creating Better Habits at Work and at Home
If you are listening to this, congrats--you made it to 2021! For many people, the start of the new year brings new year’s resolutions. But did you know that, depending on what study you reference, …
015. Get FREE Access to my Vocal Technique Unit Resources!
Do you struggle with teaching vocal technique to your singers? Or are you looking for resources that you can use while teaching choir virtually?
I’ve created a unit on vocal technique for my singers,…
014. Three Tech Tools That Choir Directors Can Use TODAY to Increase Student Engagement
I know, I know--you're probably DONE with technology right now! But I promise--the three (actually, four) tech tools that I discuss in today's episode are SUPER easy to use. One you can learn in 30…
013. Five Books That Every Choir Director Should Read
I had a question recently about books that all choir directors should read, so, I put together a Recommended Reading List for choir directors. In today’s episode of the podcast, I narrow it down to f…
012. Working with Middle School Voices--Interview with Maurice Burgess
One of the most challenging aspects of being a choir director is working with middle school voices. It's challenging for a variety of reasons: not only do you have such a wide variety of voices to w…
011. The Six Things I am MOST Thankful for This Year
I know that 2020 has been a VERY challenging year, to say the least! Which makes it even more important for us to stay positive and take note of the good things in our lives. So, in this special Th…
010. Ten Reasons Why You Should Be Using BandLab With Your Choirs
One of my favorite tech tools that I am using with my choirs right now is the digital audio workstation BandLab for Education (edu.bandlab.com). And in today's episode, I am going to discuss the ten…
009. Five Rehearsal Strategies from Top Choir Directors
I am always looking for new tools for my "director toolbox". After attending a conference, I got the idea of asking some of the most well-respected directors in the choir world this question:
"What a…
008. Finding (and Remembering) Your "Why" as a Choir Director
A recent post on social media asked the following question: "What's your "why" for being a choir director?" Considering all of the challenges and obstacles that we are currently facing in our teachi…
007. Helping Young Male Singers Access Their Falsetto and Bridge the Vocal Gap
One of the most challenging tasks that a choir director can be faced with is trying to help young male singers through their voice change. It can be very frustrating, for both the teacher and the si…
006. My Setup For Teaching Choir Online AND In-Person
One of the questions I get the most in our current environment is this: "HOW are you teaching right now?" In this episode, I discuss WHAT content I am teaching, and HOW I am teaching--what rehearsal…
005. Ten Ways to Use Flipgrid with Your Choir
With school shifting to online, teachers had to go scrambling for technology solutions. One free solution that many teachers turned to was Flipgrid. Flipgrid is online software that allows teachers…
004. The Top Ten Tech Tools for Teaching Choir Virtually
For many choir directors, technology is a REALLY frustrating topic. We don’t have a lot of extra time to wade through instruction manuals and tutorials, and we get easily frustrated when we run into…
003. Providing a Safe Space for Singers at Home
As choir directors, we often talk to our singers about having them practice at home. Singing is like any other learned skill--singers must really be committed to practicing consistently, and with pu…