Choir Fam Podcast

About Choir Fam Podcast

The Choir Fam Podcast is a venue for conversations about the current state of choral music. Hosts Dean Luethi and Matthew Myers seek to bring the worldwide choral community closer together through their discussions with a variety of guests who work with choir in its various forms. The goal of the podcast is to provide listeners with interesting tidbits of knowledge they could use in day-to-day choral rehearsals and to bring light to the ways that issues in the choral field are being observed and addressed.

Publisher

Dean Luethi & Matthew Myers

Category

arts · education · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Jan 2022

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

182 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Ep. 169 - Utilizing Singing to Promote Community Healing - Michael Bussewitz-Quarm

   "One way for me to work through things like gun violence and civil rights issues, things I really struggle with, is to set it to music and build a community around it. I found that this really speaks to singers, which is healing and affirming for me. What's more therapeutic when you're struggling than having a community around you? We build that for each other. I can't write the music and just stop there. It has to be performed. I need a choir around me. I need a community around me.” Micha...

2. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Ep. 168 - Scaffolding Learning for All Levels of Experience - Brandon Boyd

   "Working with the MTC Women’s Prison Glee Club was life-changing, taking women who had never been in a choir, teaching them about head voice, consonants, vowels, and diction and all the musical things that we talk about all the time in choir. We went down to the very basics and that was remarkable for us as conductors to see you have the ability to teach anybody if you learn how to sequence and understand where people are and how you can take them to the next level." Dr. Brandon A. Boyd is t...

3. 

   17 Sept 2026

   Ep. 167 - Rehearsal Transitions as Opportunities for Singer Engagement - Morgan Luttig

   “Transitions are key to all of the rehearsals that I run. We lose a lot of very valuable rehearsal time when we switch from one task to the next, whether they’re taking their music out or they start talking to a neighbor. Every time we switch tasks, there’s a ‘switch cost,’ which is the time it takes for our brain to transition from one experience to the next experience. I’ve developed transition strategies that help minimize that time. The goal of a transition is to continue the music making...

Who has been a guest on Choir Fam Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• MaryAnne Muglia
• Albert Pinsonneault
• Tim Seelig
• Daniel Gutierrez
• Blake Richter

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

15 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

44

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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