2012 Directors Seminar

Friday–Saturday, February 10-11, 2012

University of Massachusetts Campus Center, Amherst, MA

Early Bird Registration postmarked by 1/13/2012: $170
Regular Registration by 2/1/2012: $185
UMass Hotel at the Campus Center: $90 per night (plus tax)
Call the hotel at 877-822-2110 or reserve online at: www.umasshotel.com.
Use the group code, HBELLC, to receive the special room rate.
Details are on the Registration Form
Fill in form online and print 2 copies,
or download to your computer and complete in Acrobat Reader.

Classes will include:

• 3 repertoire reading sessions
• Beginning and intermediate conducting master classes
• Symposium for new directors
• Classes focused not merely on how to execute techniques, but on how to teach them effectively
• Classes to help those who work with special populations (youth, smaller ensembles)

Registration opens Friday at 4:00 PM
First seminar event begins at 4:45 PM
Bradford Scholarships are available for first-time attendees
Scholarship Application must be received by January 13, 2012

Guest Clinician: Kevin McChesney

Kevin McChesney is a true handbell professional. He has composed more than 400 arrangements and original works for handbells and is in constant demand as conductor and clinician world-wide.

Kevin has a Bachelors of Music Composition and Theory from Colorado University where he graduated with highest honors. He works as music editor for Jeffers Handbell Supply, Ringing Word, as well as for STEP.

Kevin and Michael Kastner are co-founders of STEP and have collaborated in the instructional text, Solo Ringing! Musically, available from Jeffers.

Kevin offers articles from Handbell University and monthly posts a newsletter to the Sonology Music site, where Kevin is a primary composer/contributor. Kevin is a talented composer, arranger, keyboardist, plays guitar, and conducts the popular auditioned community handbell ensemble, The Pikes Peak Ringers. Kevin lives in Colorado Springs with his wife, Tracy, who a handbell enthusiast and excellent ringer, and with their two cats, Belle and Grace Note.

Guest Choir: Granite State Ringers

The Granite State Ringers (GSR) was organized as a community handbell choir by Mary Divers and Joan Fossum in February of 2007. Their vision was to offer musicians who are committed to the art of handbell ringing a chance to play a variety of challenging music and to promote handbell repertoire to audiences all over New Hampshire. The GSR is made up of ringers from communities throughout New Hampshire including Keene, Rochester, Concord, Meredith and Laconia. They perform on 5 octaves of Malmark Handbells and 5 octaves of Malmark Handchimes, and rehearse twice a month at the United Baptist Church in Concord, NH.

For more information please see the GSR website.