Education
Nordic Light Region #32 Educational Portal
Some of the educational material below requires you to be logged in to the NLR or SA member pages.
Featuring
It's a new year, and with that comes the usual focus on competitions. This is the perfect time to refresh your understanding of the four judging categories, ensuring you are well-prepared and confident. Valerie’s class provides an excellent opportunity to dive deeper into each category and understand what the judges are looking for. Click on the picture below.
The start of the year often also brings a lot of new material to learn. To help make this process smoother and more engaging, Stefanie Schmidt shares her innovative tools and methods for learning and retaining new material effectively. Her recorded class is an inspiring resource for anyone looking to enhance their learning strategies and make the most of their practice time.
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About education
Sweet Adelines International and Nordic Light Region have a strong culture of learning and offering education for all members. Being a member of Nordic Light Region means that you have access to an abundance of education.
Each year the region hosts Directors' education, Nordic Education Weekend, Leadership days and more. Competition is also an important educational tool for quartets and choruses.
Nordic Light Region have regional faculty that teach classes in vocal production, music theory, interpretation, visual performance, choreography, leadership, barbershop history, vision- and goal work, and much more. We do also
invite special international faculty to teach as well during our Education Weekend and choruses as quartets.
Sweet Adelines International offers education for directors, visual leaders and for all members. This is done in the Directors and Visual Leaders' Seminar, the International Education Symposium and at the International Conventions.
Some of the material requires logged in as a member in Nordic Light Region #32 "members " section as to Sweet Adelines Education "members only" section.
Enjoy!
Travel in Tune
Welcome to Region #32 Nordic Light.This region is known for innovative, exciting performances.full of surprises — and championship medals too!
Take part of our journey , click on the picture below to start!
Public resources
Learn more about the complex and rewarding genre of four-part barbershop harmony.
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Barbershop 101 , here are the basics to 4 part harmony called Barbershop. |
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Opportunities for Young singers Designed for singers age 25 and younger, YWIH provides opportunities for students to explore the world of barbershop music through education, festivals, workshops, camps and competitions. You will also find more for educators as well. |
| Example from the show package in the Quartet Finals 2024 |
| Below a chorus performance at Sweet Adelines Young Woman of Harmony |
| Below the famous Deke Sharon ( Pitch Perfect) Dua Lipa's "Don't Start Now" by the attendees of Midland University's annual a cappella festival |
| The Velvetones are Holding Out For A Hero!!! |
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Sweet Adelines International encourages women to take on leadership roles that transcend into their communities and professional and personal lives. How to arrange barbershop style, musical director skills, judging program and more. Below example of lovely performance of director skills. |
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Welcome to the Voice section of the members-only education portal where you'll find a variety of helpful articles, tips, links and other resources to help your chorus or quartet give powerful vocal performances. |
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Barbershop pod
Here you can listen to Körpodden all about our magical organization and barbershop (In Swedish)
Thank you Rönninge Show Chorus musical director Anna Alvring and Alba Show Chorus and The EntertainMen musical director Åsa Bergh Fagerström for a brilliant conversation about barbershop!
The pod is produced by Sveriges Körförbund in association with Kulturens Bildningsverksamhet
Member only resources (requires to be logged in)
Barbershop Basics Barbershop Basic part 2
