Lee Gwozdz
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Lee Gwozdz serves as director of music for Corpus Christi Cathedral,
Corpus Christi, Texas, and as executive director of the Cathedral
Concert Series. In addition to his duties at the cathedral, Lee
serves as the executive director of the Corpus Christi Symphony
Society, Inc. He is a member of the executive board of the Choristers
Guild National Board of Directors and the national board of directors
of the Director of Music Ministry Division of the National Association
of Pastoral Musicians. Increasingly engaged as a festival conductor
and workshop clinician, Lee has conducted choir festivals in Austin,
Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Houston, Milwaukee, Omaha,
and Seattle. Lee's workshop presentations, primarily in the area
of his work with children's choirs, have taken place in over twenty-six
cities throughout the United States and Europe.
Workshops
The Children's Choir: Our Singing Church of Today!
A general introduction to the ministry of the children's choir.
Learn effective ways to recruit and introduce young people to this
important ministry.
The Singing Child I-Body, Mind, Spirit Voice (One of two
parts)
The Singing Child II-Enabling the Child to Sing
These sessions explore today's singing child. Types of children's
singing voices will be determined and heard via video demonstrations.
Ways of enabling any child to sing technically will be experienced
by session attendees.
Recruiting, Keeping, and Maintaining Children's Choirs
This session will offer practical methods of recruiting, keeping,
and maintaining children's choirs. Uses of communication aids, forms,
timelines, and the advantages of initial choir interviews will be
explored. Policies and "re-choir-ments" that can keep
and maintain any choir will highlight this presentation.
Toys-R-Lee
Explore the use of visual aids, such as toys, to enable children,
even adults, the ability to sing musically. (30 minutes) All sessions
can be easily adapted for adult choirs.
Lee is also available for choral festivals for both children's and
adult choirs.