Conductor Information and Registration

Registration due by January 17th.

Come tune-up your skills, learn new conducting ideas, and sing with us! As a Conductor at the 2025 Tune-Up you can participate in:

  • Friday evening interest session and conducting masterclass (5-9pm)

  • Saturday morning workshop, director’s lunch and afternoon reading session, followed by a pre-concert talk and the Festival Concert*

*Attendees who wish to participate in the Festival Chorus must attend both the morning workshop and afternoon rehearsal.

Fee Breakdown

Director/Choral Educator - $65

For choral industry professionals such as church choir directors, career conductors, and future music educators/professionals

Includes music packets, Friday boxed dinner, and Saturday boxed lunch

Student - $30

For those currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program

Includes music packets, Friday boxed dinner, and Saturday boxed lunch

Friday Only - $30

For conductors interested in only the Friday evening interest session and conducting masterclass (5-9pm)

Includes boxed dinner

Saturday Only - $45

For conductors interested in only the Saturday morning workshop, Director’s Lunch, afternoon reading session and participation in the Festival Chorus (9:00am-5:30pm)

Includes music packets and boxed lunch

About Conductor’s Tune-Up Activities

  • Friday, January 31 - 5:00 to 9:00pm

    • Welcome Reception, Boxed Dinner & Round Table Discussion

    • Interest Session led by Dr. Brandon A. Boyd

    • Conducting Masterclass with Dr. André Thomas (3 conductors chosen by application. To apply, upload choral resume)

    Saturday, February 1 - 9:00am – 3:30pm

    • Morning Workshop 

    • Box Lunch and Round Table Discussion

    • Afternoon Reading Session and Repertoire Introduction

    • Pre-Concert talk led by the clinicians

    • Festival Concert @ 4pm

  • A special interest session led by our Tune-Up clinicians. Check back later for more details.

  • Led by Dr. André Thomas. Three candidates will be chosen to conduct (based on application submitted with registration).

  • Pre-Registration Required

    Singers will work in a rehearsal setting alongside members of the National Lutheran Choir learning 3 - 4 choral selections led by clinicians Dr. André Thomas and Dr. Brandon Boyd. The selections will then be sung for the public at the free Festival Concert later in the afternoon. 

  • More information coming soon!

  • For conductors only. Music packets will be provided by Fred Bock Publishing Group.

  • Tune-Up participants are invited to return for an afternoon rehearsal to participate in the Festival Chorus. The afternoon rehearsal will revisit and solidify the music learned during the morning workshop and prepare singers for the Festival Concert.

  • This pre-concert talk will be given by Tune-Up clinician Dr. André Thomas, also the author of "Way Over in Beulah Lan': Understanding and Performing the Negro Spiritual."

    This activity will be open to both Tune-Up participants and Festival Concert ticket holders.

  • The Festival Concert begins at 4:00pm and will feature selections sung by the National Lutheran Choir, the Festival Chorus, and the University of Minnesota Gospel Choir (directed by Dr. Adrian Davis).

Registration due by January 17th.