Lynette Alcántara: Teaching & Conducting
Lynette has been teaching since her student days where she was awarded a Bachelor of Music Education with Honours in Voice at the University of Melbourne, specializing in classroom singing and choral skills. She is available for vocal workshops, masterclasses, adjudication, audition preparation and singing lessons. She has a thriving singing teaching practice in Cambridge, takes regular workshops for the BBC Singer ’s education work and is a Fellow and Director of Music at Wolfson College, Cambridge. She conducts King's Junior Voices and is the singing teacher for the choristers of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge.
Events
February and March 2012
Teacher training workshops for Cambridgeshire Music
October 2011
Vocal Health Seminar
Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge
part of the MMus in Choral Conducting Course
12 October 2011, 7.30pm
Choir 2000 Workshop
Histon Baptist Church. Private Event
8 December 2011, 7.00pm
Christmas Carol Concert for Rotary (PDF Poster)
with King's Junior Voices
West Rd Concert Hall, Cambridge
Singing Teaching
Lynette has a thriving singing teaching practice in Cambridge. She teaches students from a number of Cambridge colleges as well as adult pupils, ranging from beginners to Diploma standard. She regularly submits pupils for examination with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. Her students have recently been awarded choral scholarships to Cambridge University, and been accepted onto the post-graduate singing course at the RNCM and RAM. She is a member of the British Voice Association, Association of Teachers of Singing (AOTOS) and the Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) and whilst in Australia was a committee member of ANZATS (Australian and New Zealand Association of Teachers of Singing) and on the vocal advisory panel of the Australian Music Examinations’ Board. She is also a member of ISME (Incorporated Society of Music Education).
Vocal Workshops/Masterclasses/Courses
- In 2012 Lynette will give several vocal training days to Cambridgeshire Primary teachers on behalf of Cambridgeshire Music and Sing Up.
- As a member of the BBC Singers Lynette regularly leads singing workshops as part of the BBC learning programme. In 2007 she lead workshops as part of the GoSing and Play it again initiatives which aimed to create learning and performance opportunities for a range of amateur singers and schools. 2008 engagements included leading vocal workshops around the UK as part of I'd Do Anything BBC TV programme, and working as a choral mentor for Westminster Cathedral Primary School, as part of the BBC GoSing project. During 2009 Lynette was a mentor for several Westminster Primary Schools as part of the BBC project The World in our City. She has given several workshops and professional development courses for the Royal National Institute for the Blind and held a series of classes at Joseph Clarke School for the visually impaired in Chingford.
Lynette has worked as a choral animateur and workshop leader for:
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge and SingUp
The Britten Sinfonia
Berkshire Youth Choir
The BBC Singers (including BBC I'd do Anything and SingUp projects)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
BBC Proms
Cambridge Choral Festival
Cambridge University Music Society Chorus
Choir 2000
University of Cambridge
University of Melbourne
Conducting
Lynette’s love of choral music led to her branching into choral conducting whilst at university where she learnt her trade working with the Australian Boys’ Choir and the Melbourne Youth Choir, and was assistant conductor and co-founder of The Young Voices of Melbourne. She has participated in conducting classes and masterclasses with Roland Young, Berwyn Roberts, Robert Rosen and Ed Bolkovac. She is a member of the Association of British Choral Directors (ABCD). She currently conducts Wolfson College Choir and Chamber Singers and King's Junior Voices.
King's Junior Voices
In January 2008 Lynette founded King’s Junior Voices, a free 70 voice mixed children’s choir, as part of the King’s College Chorister Outreach Project in association with Sing Up and the National Singing Curriculum. When government funding ceased in July 2010 Lynette drew together a group of Trustees and successfully applied for charitable status for King’s Junior Voices (Registered Charity Number: 1138969) and the choir is continuing a strong association with King’s College, Cambridge. We have thus far given 6 concerts in King's College Chapel and two at West Rd Concert Hall.
The next King’s Junior Voices concert is on Tuesday 10th July 2012 in King's College Chapel at 7.30pm. Tickets are available on the door. Guest performers include the choirs of Barton Primary School and St Laurence Primary School, Junior Prime Brass and members of Prime Brass.
Between 2008-2010 as part of her work for Sing Up (www.singup.org) Lynette worked as a choral animateur on behalf of the King's College Choir Outreach Project in 25 Cambridge state primary schools preparing hundreds of children for performances in King’s College Chapel.
Wolfson College Choir
Since 1993 Lynette has conducted the choir of Wolfson College, Cambridge, building it up from a small choir of fifteen to the current fifty voice mixed choir. 2012 plans include Bach's St John Passion and a tour to Greece at the invitation of the International Society for Music Education. In addition to their college commitments, the choir has toured to Rome, sung in the Cambridge University 800th Prom, on BBC Songs of Praise and performed in Mahler’s Symphony of a thousand in Ely Cathedral and the Royal Albert Hall. 2007 and 2008 performances included singing Vivaldi Gloria, Schubert Mass in G, Mozart Coronation Mass and Pergolesi Stabat Mater in Cambridge and Rome in a joint collaboration with Coro Amici in Musica, Rome. Recent performances included Durufle Requiem and Handel's Messiah. Since 1998 Lynette has been Director of Music at Wolfson where she is also a Fellow and member of the Governing Body.
With the Wolfson College Choir and Orchestra Lynette has conducted works including:
Bach Christmas Oratorio Parts 1 & 2
Britten A Ceremony of Carols, Hymn to St. Cecilia
Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
Buxtehude Das Neugeborne Kindelein
Charpentier Te Deum, Messe de Minuit
Faure Requiem, Cantique de Jean Racine
Finzi In Terra Pax
Handel Chandos Anthems, Zadok the Priest
Handel Messiah
Haydn Kleine Orgelmesse, In sanae et vanae curae, Missa Sancti Nicolai
Mozart Missa Brevis in C
Mozart Requiem
Purcell Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day 1692, Come ye sons of art
Rutter Fancies, Requiem, Gloria
Schubert Mass in G
Sullivan The Mikado
Vivaldi Gloria
Various programmes of carols, 19th and 20th century Part-songs, light music and folksongs.
