Cover image of Choir Ninja, with Ryan Guth

Choir Ninja, with Ryan Guth

Formerly the Find Your Forte podcast - Step up to the podium with purpose and make the most of your public or private school's choral program with solutions you never saw coming! Join Choir Ninja, Rya... Read more

Ranked #1

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Teaching with the End in Mind, with Denise Eaton

Teaching with the End in Mind, with Denise Eaton

Pearls of wisdom just drop out of Denise Eaton’s mouth with every sentence she speaks. In this episode, Denise and Ryan ... Read more

26 Jan 2018

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Ranked #2

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When You’re Not Their First Love, with Beth Richey-Sullivan

When You’re Not Their First Love, with Beth Richey-Sullivan

Beth Richey-Sullivan discusses strategies for surviving the most perilous of choir director jobs: taking over a program ... Read more

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Finding choral heroes, with Patrick Dupree Quigley

Finding choral heroes, with Patrick Dupree Quigley

Seraphic Fire's Patrick Dupree Quigley speaks about the need to grow Choir Nation by making sure students of choral musi... Read more

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Breaking into the professional choral scene, with James Bass

Breaking into the professional choral scene, with James Bass

James Bass of UCLA and Seraphic Fire joins Ryan today to speak about balancing out your education and conducting career ... Read more

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Life Changing Concerts, with Dr. Abby Musgrove

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 Yes, your concerts should meet educational standards. Yes, they should also meet your own goals for helping your singer... Read more

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CN Rewind: How to teach a piece using sequential layering, with Denise Eaton

CN Rewind: How to teach a piece using sequential layering, with Denise Eaton

A Choir Ninja Rewind Today we bring you an encore airing of one of our most popular interviews with a Houston-area direc... Read more

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10 proven ways to prevent Choir Zombie Syndrome, with Ryan Main

10 proven ways to prevent Choir Zombie Syndrome, with Ryan Main

Learn 10 ways Ryan Main gets his middle and high school choirs to be more expressive when they sing, preventing "Choir Z... Read more

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Technique Tuesday 006 : Start the period off right for a peaceful and focused rehearsal, with Ryan Guth

Technique Tuesday 006 : Start the period off right for a peaceful and focused rehearsal, with Ryan Guth

Start each rehearsal with the choir focused and accept nothing less. You're doing their little anxious brains a favor. Y... Read more

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The importance of being present on the podium, with Joseph Flummerflet

The importance of being present on the podium, with Joseph Flummerflet

Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt, Musical America's 2004 Conductor of the Year, and director emeritus of the world-famous Westmins... Read more

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A crash course in classifying high school voices, with Ryan Guth

A crash course in classifying high school voices, with Ryan Guth

Some of us barely get to see our students individually for any real length of time, so today I’m going over my short pro... Read more

31 Mar 2017

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FYF 028 : How to achieve authenticity through tone, with Kenney Potter

FYF 028 : How to achieve authenticity through tone, with Kenney Potter

In this episode, Dr. Kenney Potter of Wingate University explains his three-tiered process to achieve authenticity in ch... Read more

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Sell out your concerts and create raving fans, with Stevie Berryman

Sell out your concerts and create raving fans, with Stevie Berryman

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Leggings as pants - A woman's perspective, with Vikki Siddell

Leggings as pants - A woman's perspective, with Vikki Siddell

In this episode, I sit down with MO choral educator, Vikki Siddell to discuss why she almost stopped supporting my podca... Read more

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TT008 : Fix breathy and chest-dominant tone in adolescent female voices with these key exercises, with Ryan Guth

TT008 : Fix breathy and chest-dominant tone in adolescent female voices with these key exercises, with Ryan Guth

Alan Davis from Portland, OR writes: So, my question was: How would you approach working with a 9th-grade girl, in begin... Read more

27 Oct 2015

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10 things I learned as a veteran director in a new school, with Ryan Guth

10 things I learned as a veteran director in a new school, with Ryan Guth

Ryan looks back on lessons learned this past year as a choir teacher in a new school/state/culture. This is a must liste... Read more

13 Jun 2017

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How to succeed at a national-level conference performance, with Daniel Gutierrez

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Today, I deep dive into the practices of Daniel Gutierrez of Reed Academy Singers to find out what it takes to put toget... Read more

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FYF 003 : Respecting your choir's "Why", with Dr. Ryan James Brandau

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8 must-do's for choral directors in December, with Amanda Simon and Ryan Guth

8 must-do's for choral directors in December, with Amanda Simon and Ryan Guth

In December especially, choral directors spend their days focused on serving others so much that they often neglect thei... Read more

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FYF 029 : Lose the maestro mentality and make genuine connections, with Dominick DiOrio

FYF 029 : Lose the maestro mentality and make genuine connections, with Dominick DiOrio

An incredibly fun conversation with Dr. Dominick DiOrio (@DomDiOrio) of Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. We ... Read more

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