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Empowering every voice.

Choral singing is a human practice — for choralists, for conductors, and for the communities they serve.

At ChoirBaton, we believe that the transformative power of choral singing belongs to everyone — from the adults discovering their voices for the first time, to the conductors shaping the next room they walk into. Three interconnected pillars. One growing movement. A practice that was always meant to be yours.

Three paths, one practice

Three paths into the same practice.

Choir is shaped by many roles — including choralists, conductors, communities, and more.

ChoirBaton supports three of these paths — choralists, conductors, and communities — while keeping the work rooted in the same shared practice: making music that connects, teaches, and transforms.

For choralists

The Academy

The Choralist Method is built for new, emerging, and returning community singers who want to grow with confidence, clarity, and joy.

Through an integrated approach to Musicianship, Mindset, and Culture, singers develop vocal skills, musical literacy, and the confidence to participate fully in choral music.

Whether you're joining your first choir, returning after time away, or looking to deepen your artistry, the Choralist Method offers structured, accessible training that helps you build capability, connection, and a lifelong relationship with singing.

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For conductors

The Institute

Continuing education for conductors shaping the future of choral learning.

The ChoirBaton Institute equips choir conductors with the pedagogy, tools, and teaching practices of the Choralist Method — helping educators integrate musicianship, mindset, and culture into excellent, human-centered choral programs.

From score study and rehearsal craft to vocal pedagogy and program leadership, the Institute supports conductors in building classrooms, rehearsals, and communities where singers can grow.

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For the curious

The Podcast

The ChoirBaton Podcast brings together the stories, insights, and wisdom of the choral community — for the people who love this work and the people who are just getting curious about it.

Through intimate conversations with conductors, composers, singers, and educators, we explore what makes choral music so powerful — and how it shapes the people who practice it.

Behind-the-scenes stories from leading choral figures. Practical inspiration for singers and teachers. Explorations of repertoire, technique, and artistry. New conversations every other week, plus a growing community of listeners worldwide.

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At the heart of everything

The Choralist Method

A research-backed, three-pillar framework that makes choral singing accessible, engaging, and transformative — for the choralist learning, the conductor leading, and the community held inside both. The Method bridges traditional musicianship with modern pedagogy and treats becoming a choralist as the integrated work it actually is.

Pillar 01

Musicianship

Voice + Literacy Integration

The technical foundation — the physical ability to sing and the cognitive ability to read music, taught together as one integrated skill. Sound first. Sight second. Theory third. The way musicianship actually develops when no one is rushing you through it.

Pillar 02

Mindset

Confidence + Identity Transformation

The internal shift — from "I'm not good enough" to "I'm ready, I'm prepared, I belong in this room." Not cheerleading. Evidence-based psychology applied to music education. Built on the understanding that no technique reaches a learner who has decided the lesson is not for them.

Pillar 03

Culture

Belonging + Social Fluency

The social integration — the etiquette, the unwritten rules, the ensemble fluency that nobody ever explicitly teaches. Culture is mindset made collective. It is what a conductor is actually building every time they step on the podium, whether they know it or not.

The bigger picture

A vision for impact.

A world where choral music is genuinely available to anyone who wants in. Where choralists have a real path to develop their voices. Where conductors are equipped with methods that actually move singers forward. Where communities know what it feels like to live with a choral tradition at their center — because someone built one, and kept the doors open.

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Founder

Beth Philemon

Choral conductor. MM in Choral Conducting (NAU), MBA (NC State). Fifteen years on the podium and eighty episodes into a podcast she keeps insisting is "just a side project." Founder of ChoirBaton.

She built this house because the field had quietly stopped treating choral singing as the human practice it actually is. ChoirBaton is the argument that it always was — and the curriculum, conversation, and community that follow from believing it.

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Beth Philemon, founder of ChoirBaton
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An eight-week certification for conductors. Score-driven rehearsal design, gesture economy, sectional strategy, and the difference between rehearsing and just running music.

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Whether you're a listener, a choralist, or a conductor — there's a room here for you. Pick the door that fits.