Renaissance Motets: Sightreading Workshop for Small Ensembles

Simona Nass and Paul Kim bring their passion, knowledge, and vast collection of Renaissance Motets to a workshop designed to help singers get the most out of their sightreading skills. Singers will have the opportunity to sing one on a part in small ensembles formed based on individual experience.

Simona Nass has been singing choral music since elementary school, including participating in recordings with Cantori/New York and the Renaissance Street Singers. However, she is primarily known for being a Renaissance motet sight-singing obsessionist. After sight-singing Renaissance motets for over a decade, she started hosting Renaissance motet sight sings in 2005, gathering a different set of 4-8 singers several times a month. Nearly 200 singers have participated, ranging from professional singers with strong sight-singing skills to less advanced community chorus members.

Paul Kim is an SFSU Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and is currently pursuing his Master of Music in Choral Conducting with Josh Haberman, also at SFSU. He is the director of the International Orange Chorale (www.iocsf.org), the San Francisco State University Women's Chorus, the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, and was a member of RoShamBo, a professional a cappella jazz/pop sextet.