The Choir Director Podcast
The Choir Director Podcast is the essential resource for choir directors, conductors and vocal leaders who want to build stronger choirs, run better rehearsals and create outstanding musical experiences.
Hosted by international conductor and festival producer Russell Scott, each episode shares practical strategies for rehearsal technique, vocal training, repertoire choices, choir recruitment, leadership, performance preparation and managing real-world community and amateur choirs.
Whether you lead a school choir, church choir, community choir or professional ensemble, this podcast gives you actionable ideas you can apply immediately — from improving blend and tuning to motivating singers and growing your choir.
Featuring expert interviews with leading conductors, vocal specialists, composers and choir educators, alongside solo coaching episodes packed with real solutions for real choir challenges.
If you’re a choir director who wants practical tools, musical insight and leadership strategies to help your singers thrive, this is the podcast for you.
The Choir Director Podcast
Latest Episodes
Ep #37: Casper de Haas: Kodály-Inspired Games For Confident Young Singers
A choir does not become brave by being corrected into bravery. It becomes brave when singing feels safe, playful, and genuinely rewarding and that is exactly what Dutch music educator Casper De Haas brings to the table.We talk about the...
Ep #36: Lhente-Mari Pitout: What South African Choirs Can Teach Us About Culture, Movement and Community
An 80-voice rehearsal room can change a life, especially when you walk in thinking you don’t belong. Russell Scott sits down with Lhente-Mari Pitout, Artistic Director of the University of Pretoria Youth Choir, to explore what it really takes t...
Ep#35: How Simon Halsey Rehearses For Sound And Meaning
You can hear it in the first ten minutes with a great choir: the sound is alive, the tuning locks, and the words mean something. That level of responsiveness is not luck, and Simon Halsey CBE has spent a lifetime proving why.We’re joine...
Ep #34: Zimfira Poloz: Healthy Young Voices Grow When Choir Becomes Community
A children’s choir can sound polished and still not be truly free. The turning point is trust, and that’s where this conversation with Zimfira Poloz, Artistic Director of the Toronto Children’s Chorus and a University of Toronto educator in voc...
Ep #33: Manvinder Rattan: You Get Better Faster When You Conduct The Choir You Actually Have
Most conductors don’t struggle because they lack passion. They struggle because the job asks for two hard skills at once: musical clarity and human leadership. I’m joined by Manvinder Rattan, choral and orchestral conductor and one of the UK’s ...
