Name: CQ 2024: CircleSinging with Gaia Music Collective’s Matt Goldstein
Start: 2024-06-16T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-06-16T15:00:00-04:00
Location: MITU580

$CQ 2024: CircleSinging with Gaia Music Collective\u2019s Matt Goldstein$

Join us for a CircleSinging workshop led by Matt Goldstein, founder of Gaia Music Collective, at ChamberQUEER 2024!
About this Event

is thrilled to present Constellation, our 2024 Pride Month celebration of queer community, diversity, and excellence in chamber music! Featuring multiple live performances and workshops every day, ChamberQUEER 2024: Constellation runs Tuesday, June 11 through Sunday, June 16 at MITU580.

EVENT DETAILS

’s CircleSinging sessions are warm, welcoming spaces for spontaneous group singing, led with joy, passion, and kindness by founder Matt Goldstein. CircleSinging is a vocal jam session, sung by all of us and led by a facilitator in the middle of the circle who invents parts, teaches improvised harmonies, and shapes the music as we flow from meditative moments to vibrant dance parties to heartfelt anthems and everything in between! Circle Singing is done all over the world in many different forms, and, while popularized by musical legends such as Bobby McFerrin and Rhiannon of WeBe3, it dates back to the earliest forms of human singing.  No need to be a professional singer: his playful, intuitive approach to singing meets you wherever you are in your vocal journey, and allows professional artists, former choir kids, and shower singers alike to bond, collaborate, & create beautiful vocal music as a spontaneous vocal community. 

(he/him) is an award-winning vocal arranger, music educator, singer/songwriter, and facilitator who cultivates community through collaborative creation. He has enjoyed a vibrant career as a professional in the a cappella world, performing with and music directing for The Vassar Devils and Hyannis Sound, and composing award-winning vocal arrangements for over 80 ensembles around the world. He has taught workshops & courses in circle singing, vocal improvisation, ensembleship, and arranging at programs and schools across the country, including A Cappella Academy, NACC, and V.I.P. (Vocal Intensive Program). He now teaches private coachings and lessons for creative flow, improvisation, and vocal arranging, directs a community pop/rock choir called Rock Voices, and pours so much love & creative energy into… you guessed it…. Gaia Music Collective!