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Hosted by Russell Scott · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 21 episodes
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The Choir Director Podcast is the essential resource for choir directors, conductors and vocal leaders who want to build stronger choirs, run better rehearsals and create outstanding musical experiences. Hosted by international conductor and festival producer Russell Scott, each episode shares practical strategies for rehearsal technique, vocal training, repertoire choices, choir recruitment, leadership, performance preparation and managing real-world community and amateur choirs. Whether you lead a school choir, church choir, community choir or professional ensemble, this podcast gives you actionable ideas you can apply immediately — from improving blend and tuning to motivating singers and growing your choir. Featuring expert interviews with leading conductors, vocal specialists, composers and choir educators, alongside solo coaching episodes packed with real solutions for real choir challenges. If you’re a choir
Russell Scott hosts The Choir Director Podcast, a music show with 21 episodes published.
Your choir already has a sound, but can you change it on demand, protect voices across styles, and still keep rehearsals upbeat? Russell Scott sits down with Jeremy Matheis, Artistic Director of Choir of the Sound in Sea
A gospel choir can sound thrilling and still miss the point if the style is borrowed without the roots. I’m joined by Kansas City composer, conductor, pianist, and choral clinician Isaac Cates, an artist whose music is s
Your choir can sing the right notes and still feel disconnected. The missing piece is often not “more rehearsal”, but better ensemble connection: eyes up, bodies engaged, breath shared, and responsibility spread across t
A choir can rehearse for years and still feel like a group of strangers who happen to sing in the same room. The moment you take singers on the road, something changes: conversations deepen, trust builds faster, and the
Most conducting careers do not begin with a neat roadmap. They begin with a choir, a spark of curiosity, and a moment where you realise you would rather shape the sound than blend into it. We’re joined by Tori Longdon, P
You can feel when a choir rehearsal has real trust, and you can also feel when singers are holding back. Maria A. Ellis, St Louis-based choral conductor, educator, and founder of Girl Conductor, joins us to get practical
A choir can sing accurately and still leave an audience cold, so what actually creates a performance that feels alive? We sit down with Oliver Rudin, a Basel-based artistic director who works deeply with youth ensembles
Pop and rock choir can sound electrifying or it can sound like a classical choir wearing a pop costume. We sit down with Craig Lees, Principal Lecturer in Popular Voice at Leeds Conservatoire and a leading figure in cont
A youth choir doesn’t thrive because you pick the perfect repertoire. It thrives because rehearsal feels like a place young singers choose to return to, week after week, even when life gets messy and confidence wobbles.
A choir warm-up on a whiteboard turns into a viral moment, then into a teaching philosophy. We sit down with Myles “It’s Mr Finn” Finn to talk about what actually makes singers lean in: not performative energy, but real
The scariest moment for many choir directors is not the high note, it is the first time you ask the group to move and everyone suddenly forgets how to stand. We sit down with choir choreographer Daniel Raaflaub to get pr
Music can be the loudest thing in the room and still not be the point. On his birthday, Russell goes solo for a personal, practical reflection on what truly drives choirs, festivals, mentoring, concerts, and all the unse
A choir can sing the right notes and still leave an audience cold. That’s why I loved sitting down with Berlin choral musician and choir leader Simon Berg to get practical about the one thing that changes everything: how
You can hear it the moment a choir stops “trying hard” and starts making sound with intent. That shift is what I chase with guest Chris Maunu, a conductor, educator, and composer based in Portland, Oregon, with nearly tw
If you have ever watched a school choir rehearsal lose five minutes to late arrivals, missing copies, and low energy, you already know the real challenge is not musical talent. It is leadership, structure, and buy-in. I
Four singers above a pub can turn into 18 choirs and 750 members, but only if you build something people want to come back to every week. We sit down with Abi Gilchrist, founder and director of UK Soul Choirs, to get pra
A gospel choir in Ireland might sound unlikely until you hear how it actually happens: one person asks to sing, a choir director says yes, and a community begins. I’m joined by Keara Sheeran, a choral practitioner and go
Rehearsals don’t fall apart because the music is too hard. More often, they fall apart because the room leaks time, focus, and respect in tiny, repeatable ways. I’m Russell Scott, and I’m putting a spotlight on the ungla
What does it really take to lead hundreds of everyday voices into a single, confident sound—and keep joy at the centre week after week? We sit down with Scotland-based Rock Choir leader and arranger Jen Bonnar to unpack
What if your warm-up wasn’t just about waking up voices, but snapping a whole room into one mind? We sit down with Danish conductor, educator, and arranger Jonas Rasmussen—leader of Academic Choir Aarhus and a youth mixe
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