January 5-9, 2009
University of San Diego
Instructor, Scott Turkington

This in-depth course will give you the confidence you need to be an excellent singer of Gregorian chant, or become a director of a chant schola that you can start in your parish. It goes far beyond a workshop or home-based tutorial to provide in-depth teaching and experience with a master and other students, with the practical goal in mind of singing at liturgy.

This Winter Intensive, based on the extraordinary success of the Summer Intensive in Chicago, takes place on the sunny and gorgeous campus of University of San Diego, San Diego, California. Registration begins at 1:00pm on Monday, January 5 with daily classes running through Friday at noon. Participants in the course will make up the chant schola singing the propers at the the final Mass, the Mass for the week of Epiphany, OF, Latin, on Friday at 2:00pm on January 9 in the Founders Chapel. The entire event ends at 3:30pm.

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Scott Turkington (Stamford Schola Gregoriana) has an international reputation as chant master, with specialization in the Solesmes tradition. He is the author of The Gregorian Chant Masterclass, and a marvelous teacher with singers of all skill levels. You will study Gregorian chant with him for four full days and be under his direction for a Mass at week’s end. His classes are famously engaging, with the teacher assisting students of all ages to make a contribution.

The chant intensive structure permits students to live and breath the art of chant like no other program under the warmth of the San Diego sun. You will begin with the basics but move on into a detailed exploration of the wonderful world of modes, interpretation of neumes, rhythm, and the style required by chant. Special evening sessions cover chironomy (conducting) and the fine art of pointing and singing the Psalms.

The course is intended for people who desire something more than a weekend workshop. It starts with the basics, becomes more technical over time, but is never inaccessible to the musician who is just approaching this music. This is the one week you will need to set you on the path toward full mastery of this art form that is sweeping through the United States in a full-scale restoration. But rather than looking back, this intensive prepares a bright future of beautiful singing in every parish, with everyone taking part.

Many of the students who took the Intensive in the summer are now singing or directing chant in their parishes, with thriving programs for all ages. This program can do the same for a parish (or even cathedral) in your community.

Textbooks: Textbook of Gregorian Chant by Dom Gregory Sunol; The Parish Book of Chant; and the Graduale Romanum or the Gregorian Missal.

All students are eligible for a certificate of completion, issued by the CMAA and signed by Professor Turkington.

Materials included as part of registration (excluding Graduale and/or Gregorian Missal, which will be available for purchase during the course or buy it ahead of time). The tuition for the conference, which includes catered lunches from Tuesday through Friday, is $245 for the entire week. The conference is strictly limited to 50 people.

Housing is separate and to be arranged by attendees. We suggest the following nearby hotels:

• ->Best value (mention the conference name and location): Old Town Inn
• Best Western
• La Quinta
• Marriott
• Padre Trail Inn
• Holiday Inn Express

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Mail your check, made payable to the CMAA, to CMAA Chant Intensive Registration, 166 North Gay Street, Suite 19, Auburn, AL 36830.

Or you may pay the full registration fee of $245 online.

Additional information for participants:

Parking: enter the University of San Diego at its WEST entrance. Go to the kiosk at the entrance, and campus security will give you a parking pass for the day. Parking on campus will be free so long as you park in the WHITE parking spaces.

Lunch will be served outdoors in the beautiful San Diego weather right next to our classroom building on Camino Patio. Coffee service will be available during the morning sessions.

A book table with CMAA publications will be set up in Camino 119. We’ll be accepting cash, checks, and credit cards.

The Student Health Center just a hop and a skip away from Camino Hall, and in case of emergency, major or minor, you may dial campus security from any on campus phone at #7777, or from your cell at 1-619-260-7777.

San Diego weather alert from friendly correspondent:

It is winter, and although this is Southern California, it is best to be aware that we are actually having a winter. Temps have been into the 40’s at night and we have just had double our normal amount of rainfall up to this date. Wouldn’t you just know. It would be prudent for attendees from out of state to bring some warm and rain-worthy clothing. For the week of the workshop, temps might actually go to the 70’s, but then, it might be raining again.

Please contact us at 334-444-5584 if you would like more information.