Become fluent in AI without leaving your art behind.
A six-week cohort for working choir teachers, taught by a choral conductor who has spent the last several years figuring out where AI belongs in this practice โ and where it doesn't.
The conversation is happening with or without you in it.
Right now, in faculty meetings and board rooms and rehearsals everywhere, the choral profession is deciding how AI will be used in our field. The people who opt out of this conversation are the people who remove their expertise from shaping what comes next.
This course is for working teachers who don't want to outsource that decision. Choral singing is a human practice โ and the question of how AI fits inside that practice deserves to be answered by people who do the work, not by people who write about the work from the outside.
By the end of six weeks, you will know what AI is, what it isn't, how to use it as a deliberate collaborator in your teaching and your programming, and where your judgment as a practitioner is non-substitutable. You will have built a working practice. And you will be in conversation with a cohort of peers who are figuring the same things out at the same time.
From mental models to a personal practice.
The course moves the way you'd build a singer โ foundation, application, refinement of inputs, system-building, judgment, ownership. Each week stands on the last. By Week 6, you've built something you didn't have when you started.
AI Foundations for Musicians
The history, the mental models, and the tools. We start with lineage โ because choir teachers are not late to this conversation. Music helped build modern computing.
AI as Your Rehearsal Assistant
Prompt craft for musicians. Warm-ups, sight-reading sequences, vocal diagnostics, assessment rubrics โ and an honest look at why the output is sometimes garbage.
Data, Repertoire, and Musical Research
The depth week. What counts as data in your work, what Claude was trained on, why text AI and music AI behave differently, and how to use AI as a research and interpretive partner.
AI for Administrative Efficiency
Communication systems, organizational documents, and your first custom Claude Project โ trained on your voice and your context. The week where time comes back.
Ethical AI Use and Critical Thinking
Copyright, attribution, bias, student misuse, the replacement narrative. We don't flinch from any of these. We don't catastrophize either. By the end you have a framework you can defend.
Advanced Applications and Your AI Future
Specialized tools, your customized workflow, and a 90-day implementation plan. The course closes. Your practice opens.
Five things you won't find in most AI-for-educators courses.
It's taught by a choral conductor.
Not a tech consultant who picked up choral examples for a slide deck. Every example is grounded in actual rehearsal craft, programming work, and the realities of running a choir program.
Data literacy is treated as foundational, not optional.
Most AI courses skip the layer beneath prompt craft. Yours doesn't. Week 3 is dedicated to understanding what data is, what shapes AI output, and how to think about the difference between text AI and music AI.
It treats AI as multiple categories, not one thing.
Language models work differently from music generation models, which work differently from voice synthesis. The taxonomy isn't a footnote โ it's structural, and it's what lets you absorb whatever tool comes next.
It's a small cohort, not a video library.
Capped at thirty. Live sessions only. Real breakouts, real peer share-outs, real critique. The community is part of the curriculum.
Ethics is concrete, not abstract.
By the time the ethics week arrives, you've spent four weeks generating real outputs you can actually evaluate. The framework is built from your own work, not from a textbook.
You leave with something you own.
A working prompt library. A custom Claude Project trained on your voice. A program design framework. An ethics statement you can defend. A 90-day plan. The course closes โ your practice continues.
Working choir teachers ready to engage from the inside.
This course was built for practitioners โ people who stand in front of a choir on Tuesday morning and again on Thursday night. If that's you, you'll recognize yourself in this list.
- Middle school, high school, and college choral directors looking to integrate AI into rehearsal planning, programming, and the administrative weight that comes with the job.
- Church music directors balancing artistic responsibility with the operational realities of running a music ministry.
- Community choir conductors seeking to expand their pedagogical and programming capacity without expanding their hours.
- Independent voice teachers and conductors building a sustainable practice in the next phase of their career.
- Educators who have tried AI casually, gotten inconsistent results, and want to understand why โ and what good practice actually looks like.
- Skeptics who are not sure AI belongs in this work and want to engage the question seriously before deciding.
The Data Audit for Choir Teachers
A 20-minute inventory of the data already in your work โ and the reframe that changes how you think about AI from here forward. Free. No tier, no upsell on delivery. Just the audit, a short companion video, and a small handful of follow-up emails.
A choral conductor doing the work alongside you.
The course is led by Beth Philemon โ choral conductor, founder of ChoirBaton, and the host of the ChoirBaton Podcast.
Beth has spent her career at the intersection of choral musicianship and the technologies reshaping how we work. She built the Choralist Method as a framework for developing musicianship, mindset, and culture inside choral programs, and she founded ChoirBaton to bring continuing education to working conductors and adult singers. She teaches this course not as someone outside the profession looking in, but as a fellow practitioner who has spent years figuring out where AI belongs in choral work โ and where it doesn't.
Her approach is direct, peer-to-peer, and skeptical of hype. She does not believe AI will replace choir teachers. She also doesn't believe choir teachers can afford to opt out of shaping what AI becomes in this field.
One cohort, one tier, thirty seats.
Cohort 1 is the inaugural run of Basics to Breakthroughs. It is intentionally small โ capped at thirty participants โ and intentionally live. Self-paced and recorded versions will come later, after this cohort has helped shape what the on-demand version becomes.
- Six weeks of live 90-minute sessions, beginning Tuesday, July 1, 2026
- All course materials, worksheets, and templates
- Access to the cohort community for the duration of the program
- Monthly office hours for three months after the program closes
- Lifetime access to the recordings of your cohort's sessions
Honest answers.
The conversation about AI in choral music is being shaped right now.
You can shape it from outside or shape it from inside. The first step is showing up.
Enroll for Cohort 1