Choir management
Choir management is a sub-area of music management and cultural management and describes the strategic and organizational management of a choir . In choir management, the structural foundations within a choir are created on which the artistic work can build and develop. Professional teamwork between choir management and musical direction is essential for the performance of a modern choir. Choir management can refer to the leadership functions in the choir as well as the people who exercise this function and who need corresponding choir management skills.
Education and employment
Vocational training as a choir manager is not protected. Many in this profession are choir singers themselves and because of an acute need - i.e. rather unplanned - they joined the management of their ensemble after a while . In Germany, music and cultural management can be studied as a university degree with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree . Additional qualifications in the field of choir management can be obtained in Germany. A. at the WDR , the German Choir Youth, the Federal Academy for Cultural Education Wolfenbüttel , the Chor.com, at the Polyfollia or the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung . In the boarding school of the Windsbacher Knabenchor , pupils already receive seminars in the area of choir management in upper school.
The employment relationships range from permanent positions to fee-based activities and voluntary work.
working area
The fields of activity in choir management are very diverse and can be broken down into several work areas, which, however, do not necessarily have to be carried out by one person and are weighted differently depending on the type and ambitions of the choir.
General administration
- Line / employees in the office and Management
- Acquisition and administration of funding and donations
- Fundraising , negotiating sponsorship
- Accounting , tax law
- Stakeholder Management
Choir-specific administration
- Negotiations with concert promoters; Booking
- Correspondence and negotiations with conductors , soloists and ensembles
- Coordination of CD / DVD productions
- Music law , processing of GEMA , artist social security , artist contracts and social insurance
- Tour management, travel organization, appointment and concert planning
Internal effect
- Member maintenance and recruitment, work with young talent
- Maintaining contact with the choir members, motivating the singers
- Management and moderation of meetings and assemblies, observance of association law
- Internal correspondence
- Dealing with conflict and time management
External impact
- Cooperation with (choir) associations
- organizational support of the musical and strategic direction, market research
- external correspondence
- Marketing , press and public relations , advertising
quality control
- Creating and maintaining a corporate identity
Since music and culture are economic factors, choir managers are faced with the task of positioning their choirs with cultural-political, cultural and artistic goals in the context of political and economic competition for benefits. In an increasingly pluralistic society with its increasing commercialization , choir management has received increasing attention.
Often parts of the choir management are carried out by choir conductors. This is also the case with Simon Halsey , chief conductor of the Rundfunkchor Berlin :
“That is why a large part of the work of a choir director consists of activities that have nothing to do with the music itself - without which the music could not take place at all. […] Concert programs have to be planned, sheet music ordered, rooms rented and furnished, funds raised, posters printed, tickets sold, the singers themselves also entail a certain administrative burden. […] I also spend half of my time organizing and planning, many hours every day; and I like to do that. "
See also
literature
- Allen, Heribert (1995): Choirs in Germany. Statistics, development, meaning. Viersen: VDKC
- Allen, Heribert (1997): Choir Management. Working aids and material collection for the organization and management of choirs and instrumental groups. Viersen: VDKC
- Erdmann, O. / Wiebe A. (2008): Management in the children's and youth choir. Cologne: DCJ
- Halsey, S. / Roloff, W. (2011): Master Class Choral Conducting - From Concept to Concert. Mainz: Schott
- Jachim, Alexandra (2013): Successful choir management. A guide. Vienna: Facultas.wuv.
- Just, Patricia (2011): Out of the shadow of the orchestra. Current challenges in choir management. In: Das Orchester (9), pp. 22–24
- Rösel-Tabken, Corinna (2012): Correct handling. How music becomes possible in a choir. Munich: Strube
- Schalz, Daniel (2015): All-rounders wanted. Choir time 3/2015. Berlin: DCV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Choir management at WDR
- ^ Federal Academy for Cultural Education
- ↑ Chor.com
- ↑ choir management on the Polyfollia
- ↑ Choir management in the KAS ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Pedagogy in the Windsbacher boys' choir
- ↑ z. B. at the Rundfunkchor Berlin
- ↑ z. B. with the Freiburg Jazz Choir
- ↑ See Bastian / Fischer (2006): Handbuch der Chorleitung. P. 160
- ↑ Cf. Agricola, S. (2002): Chorgemeinschaft, Ehrenamt und Marketing, Choral Studies Symposium for the 50th Anniversary of the ADC. Eat. Quote from an unpublished manuscript
- ↑ Halsey, S. (2011): From Concept to Concert. P. 21
