Choral Singing Workshop

with SANNA VALVANNE, Choir Conductor from Finland
9, 10, 11, 12 December 2019: Gurugram, NCR of Delhi

Lorraine Music Academy had the honour and privilege of hosting Sanna Valvanne, a world renowned Choir Conductor from Helsinki, Finland on 9^th, 10^th, 11^th & 12^th December 2019 at the residence of Aubrey Aloysius & Lorraine Fiona Aloysius.

Sanna worked tirelessly and passionately with our students aged 4 to 16 years. She inspired engaged and motivated students to sing with their heart and soul. Her unique and fun style had a huge impact on the students by helping them to sing and dance with freedom. Sanna’s unique style of teaching is hilarious and impactful. Every individual under her direction feels the music from within and sings without restraint. Sanna conducts music with a pure heart and a great passion and love. She makes everyone; both the performers and the audience sing and shine. Students were thoroughly engaged to give all of themselves to the performance.

Students learnt unique vocal warm-ups and fun games to open up their voices without any strain. They learnt songs of various styles and languages and moved naturally to the music while singing.

The students of Lorraine Music Academy who participated in the Choral Singing Workshop learnt and performed their Choral Singing pieces very quickly and confidently. In Sanna’s own words, she did not expect the students to be so good and be at such a level musically.

We look forward to having Sanna Valvanne with us again.

Photo Album:
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Workshop Participants:

Anika Bhatnagar	Reyna Upahdyay	Moksh Nakirekanti
Rohana Krishna	Sanjana Singh	Ruth Kothari
Kshama Das	Naisha Mohanty	Dennis Samuel Mathews
Angad Bahl	Aarav Gupta	Nysa Sethi
Ishaanvi Narayanaswamy	Isabella Payal Twyford	Rian Dua
Nia Dua	Samaira Khanna	Raya Kejriwal
Kashish Jain	Aadya Bhasin	Myra
Niev	Ahaan Bhattacharjya	Manya Roongta
Krish Nawal	Zivanka Bhardwaj	Aarika Srivastava
Shikhar Gupta	Arihana Bhartari Sahu	Meenal Goel
Samaira K.	Nevan Roy	Kaina Malik
Kaira Thakore	Aanya Bhayana	Diya Roongta
Shashwat Joglekar

SANNA VALVANNE

Sanna Valvanne is an innovative conductor and performer from Finland and the founding director of the Sing & Shine Choirs. She was the Artistic Director of the 2017 Tampere Vocal Music Festival. Sanna is recognized worldwide for her creative choral method, “Sing and Shine with Body and Soul”, and has been a popular guest conductor with hundreds of choirs around the world since 1994. A former singer, conductor’s assistant, and vocal trainer of the world famous Tapiola Choir, she has a Masters Degree in Music, from the Sibelius Academy.

From 2005-2016, Sanna lived in the USA and worked especially in New York City with children in underserved communities and with El Sistema programs. In 2016, Sanna founded the Sing & Shine Choirs to provide creative, expressive, empowering, and freeing vocal and performance training for all ages, in Espoo, Finland. 100 singers from age 6 up to active senior citizens make music together in the choirs. Through charity workshops and community projects with refugees, elderly people, and schools, the choirs are building an open, loving and welcoming community for all people in the Helsinki Capital area.

Whether with her own choirs or guest conducting, Sanna continues to expand the boundaries of choral expression, and explore new ways of sharing love and joy through singing.

LORRAINE FIONA ALOYSIUS

Lorraine Fiona Aloysius is a Licentiate of the Trinity College of London – UK (Pianoforte). She is also a Masters in Banking & Finance. In 2012, iCONGO – International Confederation Of Non Government Organisations awarded Lorraine the coveted “KARMAVEER PURASKAAR”. She received this award because of her visionary contribution and work in the field of Music, Art & Culture. Lorraine also received the “SNP NATION ACHIEVER AWARD” (2015). She received this award on account of serving society through the Nation Building Project “Come India Sing Jana Gana Mana”. Lorraine is the Founder Director of Lorraine Music Academy. She is also the Founder Trustee of lamp trust^®.

Lorraine Aloysius first started playing the piano from the age of 8. Her mother Helen D’Cruz always greatly encouraged & inspired Lorraine Aloysius in her pursuit of music. Therefore, she now has a great passion for music and the performing arts. By all means, she has experience in teaching, creative thinking, public relations, training and motivating large teams across the country.

Further, Lorraine Aloysius has sent over 2,000 students for the exams conducted by world renowned globally accredited organisations. These include Trinity Guildhall / Trinity College London, Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, U.K., and RockSchool, U.K. Even more, Lorraine also oversees a regular visiting faculty that comes in from across the globe. These include some of the top global Colleges of Music & Drama. Thus she handles special training programs for students of Lorraine Music Academy during various periods of the year.

Lorraine Fiona Aloysius loves music and, in fact, enjoys teaching singing and musical instruments. Likewise, she actively promotes the rich heritage of Music & Arts – Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Literary Arts. She lives in Gurugram, National Capital Region of Delhi.