Seminars in Conducting

   Those who have attended Dr. Bonner's seminars describe their experience as "challenging", "inspirational", "stretching", "life-changing", "a week of unbelievable growth."  As conductors return to their schools and churches, they begin to develop a changed choir, which sounds better, sings with greater feeling and understanding, and demonstrates increased respect and appreciation for the conductor.  Join the more than 700 conductors who have studied with Dr. Bonner, some of whom return year after year.  It is an intense week with 50 hours of video-taped, personalized conducting instruction, a class size which is limited to 22, and introduction to 50 of the year's best new choral selections. Register to attend today!

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     "Dr. Bonner's Conducting Seminar breathed fresh new life into my realization of the privilege and responsibility of choral ministry.  His insistence on excellence and on reaching into peopleís lives through quality choral music has been an inspiration.  He is truly a "director's director" as he challenges you musically.  However, the greatest impact is the way he challenges you to look in the mirror and allow your spiritual fervor to fuel the ways in which you shape and create beautiful praise to the Lord from the people in your choir.  I shall never be the same as a conductor or Christian because of my exposure to his ministry."
     Brian Donaldson, Westwood Cheviot Church of Christ, Cincinnati, OH  

     "Wow, what a week!  Intense - yes!  Inspiring - absolutely!  Dr. Bonner has the exceptional abiity to turn the deeper, typically unspoken aspects of choral conducting into very practical tools.  There was a whole new world well beyond technique to discover with my choir - and I am still discovering.  Doc's deep desire is to see us all succeed."
     Lance Gaskill, First Wesleyan Church, High Point, NC

     "Dr. Bonner's unique approach to the physical aspects of conducting produces a dramatic difference in choral sound, and the music used in the seminar was the most outstanding collection of pieces for church choirs I have ever seen.  The greatest impact, though, was not technical, but spiritual.  I came home with a new sense of direction, a new motivation in being a one-person-at-a-time conductor/minister on a day-by-day basis, and a renewed joy in the art of choral music as an expression of genuine worship."
     Tommy Havens, First Baptist Church, Russellville, AR

     "I found the conducting seminar to be intensive and demanding. I felt that I learned more in one week than in four years of choral conducting methods classes. I learned some practical choral conducting techniques that yielded immediate results when I took them back to my choir. My choir's sound changed dramatically and instantly when I used my newly learned conducting techniques. I never realized that I had so much control over the sound of my choral group! My choir is delighted with my attempts to "raise the bar" and is determined to meet the challenge! Their tone is fuller and their sound has more energy and life!"
     Linda Younkin, Christ the King Church, Springfield, IL

   "Your methods and techniques have restored the joy of choral music and choral conducting within my very soul. I simply call it a personal, spiritual, and musical revival." 
      Merril Smoak, Jr., Trinity Baptist Church, Livermore, CA

   "I became active in Dr. Bonner's Conducting Seminars about 12 years ago. Through these years my ability to 'paint' a beautiful musical landscape has dramatically changed. Dr. Bonner has significantly impacted how I relate to my choirs, the congregation, even my family. Choir rehearsals have been revolutionized. Dr. Bonner's uncanny insight into selecting repertoire will forever leave its imprint on my choirs and our congregation. It has been a powerful life-changing journey."
     Tim McIntire, Oscaloosa First Church of the Nazarene, Oscaloosa, IA

Upcoming Conducting Seminars
2011 and 2012

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