Express Yourself! Region 4 Educational Event - June 20 & 21, 2025
Vickie Maybury, Guest International Faculty
Vickie Maybury's Class Descriptions:
How to Spot an Eagle: Developing Strong Musical Teams
How to identify and develop real leadership potential that will allow your musical
programs to soar!
How to Get to the Next Level
Using your scoresheets as a roadmap to get to the next level. How to interpret and set
the course to get to the next level.
Energy: The Life Force of Performance
Energy is an element common to all judging categories and high-level performances.
This class will help learners understand internal and external energy and the impact it
has on the individual’s and ensemble’s rehearsal and performance experience. Includes
strategies for building ensemble consecutiveness.
Waking Up the Voice: Vocal Production with Ease, Freedom, Accuracy, & Endurance
Warmups and techniques for the voice, even when it may be fatigued or sick, that will
allow you to sing and perform with greater ease.
Developing Analytical Listening Skills
An opportunity to listen to and analyze performances in order to learn to prioritize what
to work on first.
Characterization: The Roots of Performance
Learn how to understand and bring character to life - and why! Elements include
stagecraft, storytelling, expressing emotional intent, and physical body language.
Why I Fell in Love with Barbershop
A mesmerizing journey toward a better understanding of the oft-elusive Expression
Category, the judging criteria and the impact the category has on the performance.
Chorus Festival An opportunity for choruses in the region to perform.
