is now available for purchase in digital format on the website of the Asociación Kodály Argentina.
Authors: Mariana Pechuan, Jorge Fuentes, and Bernardo Latini.
This publication arises from the pressing need to create a pedagogical-musical resource with a playful character that invites sequential learning for children’s choirs. Through a solid theoretical foundation, Mariana Pechuan and Jorge Fuentes lay out an itinerary that guides the director in managing the vocal, aural, and motor challenges inherent to children’s choral activity, taking into account aspects of children’s psychology and emotional development according to their age and vocal range. The work breaks down the necessary processes for choristers to achieve vocal independence, transforming the transition from unison to polyphony into an organic, documented, and deeply human process.
The practical core of this “journey” is materialized in 8 original compositions by Bernardo Latini, created ad hoc on texts by Juan Augusto Laplacette. These pieces, ranging from unison to 4 equal voices a cappella, constitute a sequenced cycle that translates the methodology into real music. As conductor Virginia Bono rightly points out in the prologue, the book is comprehensive because it does not limit itself to explaining the methodological thinking, but rather demonstrates it through a repertoire that allows for the progressive development, understanding, and assimilation of musical competencies.
The illustrations by Sofía Rojas bring to life the path charted by the authors, with a map designed to keep in sight all the regions, stages, and stops that the choral journey allows one to discover.
Mariana Pechuan
Jorge Fuentes
Bernardo Latini
Juan Augusto Laplacette
Sofía Rojas
Aimed at:
Whole female choirs, with good vocal technique training, choral conductors, members of middle-high or high-level choirs.
This workshop covers original compositions or arrangements for female choir, given by the composer/arranger, with an emphasis on interpretation.
An optional concert is proposed as the final activity, open to the public, where the workshop participants sing the selected pieces conducted by the composer.
Aimed at:
Whole mixed choirs, with good vocal technique, choral conductors, members of mid-high or high-level choirs.
This workshop covers original compositions and arrangements for mixed choirs, given by the composer/arranger, with an emphasis on interpretation.
An optional concert is proposed as the final activity, open to the public, where the workshop participants sing the selected pieces conducted by the composer.
Aimed at:
choirs, singers, arrangers, choral conductors, students and music teachers.
This workshop covers Argentinian popular pieces written for mixed/ equal voice choirs, given by the composer/arranger, with an emphasis on interpretation.
An optional concert is proposed as the final activity, open to the public, where the workshop participants sing the selected pieces conducted by the composer.
Aimed at:
arrangers, choral conductors, students and music teachers, musicians in general.
This seminar introduces the participants to the diversity of rhythms in Argentinian popular music, in a choral format, analysing a group of pieces taken as case studies both in their compositional and interpretative aspects.
Organizado por la Asociación de Directores de Coro de la Rep. Argentina (ADICORA), filial Bahía Blanca.
Informes e inscripción: adicorabbsuroeba@yahoo.com.ar
“Latinoamérica” Original composition by René Perez Joglar & Eduardo Cabra Martínez.
Arrangement for double mixed choir by Eduardo Ferraudi – Bernardo Latini
Score published by GCC Ediciones. Available here.
The choral score was written especially for the show “Postales al Sur del Río Bravo (Espejos)”, premiered by Coro Nacional de Jóvenes de Argentina (Argentinian National Youth Choir).
This spectacle was first performed in the Symphonic Concert Hall at Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, in 2019. The show combined Ferraudi and Latini choral arrangements of Latin American music, dance, percussion, and live narration.
Here, the video of the choral version of “Latinoamérica”
Coro Nacional de Jóvenes de Argentina.
Conductor: Pablo Banchi
Guest conductors: Eduardo Ferraudi & Bernardo Latini
Música: Bernardo Latini.
Texto: Melisa Alvarez
Coro Polifónico Delfino Quirici
Director: Juan Manuel Brarda
𝗣𝗢 𝗟𝗜 𝗙𝗢 𝗡𝗜 𝗖𝗢 es un concierto didáctico virtual para niñas y niños creado por el Coro Polifónico Delfino Quirici con obras infantiles y de nuestra literatura coral. Tiene como principal objetivo acercar el canto coral a niñas y niños de escuelas primarias, con la firme convicción de fomentar y promover el canto comunitario áulico y acompañar virtualmente a los procesos de aprendizaje que se gestan durante el confinamiento. Como parte de este programa “𝗘𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗼 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿” me fue encargada en conjunto por el Coro Polifónico Delfino Quirici y el Coro Municipal de Córdoba.
Percusionistas invitados: Javier Muñoz y Javier Mazzucchelli
Edición y Masterización de Audio: Juan Martín Albariño
Edición de Video/ Motion Graphics/ Post Producción/ FX: Daniel Cardoso
Producción / Dirección General: Juan Manuel Brarda
New video
Lyrics: Ariel Giacardi
Music: Bernardo Latini
Estudio Coral Meridies
Cond: Virginia Bono
“Ritual”, a composition for mixed choir and percussion, was written by the commission of Estudio Coral Meridies, conducted by Mª Virginia Bono.
The video shows the performance of Estudio Coral Meridies during its World Premiere at the 11th World Symposium on Choral Music, Barcelona, 2017.
