Zooming Your Way to Excellence

Zooming Your Way to Excellence

Zooming Your Way to Excellence By Erica Phare-Bergh  |  Artistic Director  |  Voices in Motion While it’s true that COVID has been really tough on choirs, there are some advantages to online singing that we can’t always get during in-person rehearsals. Uniform vowels,...
Vowels Matter

Vowels Matter

Vowels Matter By Erica Phare-Bergh  |  Artistic Director  |  Voices in Motion You’ve heard me frequently say in rehearsal: “We want a unified vowel on that.” What do I mean by that? And why so much attention to vowels when we sing? I’ve had you repeat the sentence:...
Your Inner Game of Music

Your Inner Game of Music

Your Inner Game of Music By Erica Phare-Bergh | Artistic Director | Voices in Motion I just came back from a fabulous choral workshop with Dr. Jim Sparks. I love how he approaches choral music. Why? Because it’s all about the brain and how we think about and...
People Who Need People

People Who Need People

People Who Need People By Erica Phare-Bergh |  Artistic Director  |  Voices in Motion I’m really looking forward to this term’s musical theme: People Who Need People. Why did I choose this theme? I’m an introvert by nature. Yup. It’s true. I function as an extrovert...
Music and Me

Music and Me

Music and Me By Erica Phare-Bergh  |  Artistic Director  |  Voices in Motion I wanted to go to Mexico so I auditioned to sing with them. The Vanier Chamber Singers were slated to tour Mexico in the spring of 1984. I was 17 years old and this was my first choral...