The Choir Director Podcast

The Choir Director Podcast is the essential resource for choir directors, conductors and vocal leaders who want to build stronger choirs, run better rehearsals and create outstanding musical experiences.

Hosted by international conductor and festival producer Russell Scott, each episode shares practical strategies for rehearsal technique, vocal training, repertoire choices, choir recruitment, leadership, performance preparation and managing real-world community and amateur choirs.

Whether you lead a school choir, church choir, community choir or professional ensemble, this podcast gives you actionable ideas you can apply immediately — from improving blend and tuning to motivating singers and growing your choir.

Featuring expert interviews with leading conductors, vocal specialists, composers and choir educators, alongside solo coaching episodes packed with real solutions for real choir challenges.

If you’re a choir director who wants practical tools, musical insight and leadership strategies to help your singers thrive, this is the podcast for you.

Guest

Tori Longdon

Tori Longdon is a London-based choral conductor, educator, and presenter. She is Principal Conductor of the Covent Garden Chorus and Associate Chorus Director of the London Philharmonic Choir. She coached eighteen choirs from across the UK for the King’s Coronation Concert (May 2023) and is a conductor for Songs of Praise (BBC1), as well as an adjudicator for youth choral awards including Young Choir of the Year. Tori co-founded WorldChoir (formerly The Stay At Home Choir), an international online choir community of 29,000+ singers led with Swingles baritone Jamie Wright. She studied choral conducting at the Royal Academy of Music (Distinction; Thomas Armstrong Prize) and also lectures and mentors developing musicians.

https://www.torilongdon.com/

Guest appearance on:

Ep #19: Tori Longdon: Are You Climbing The Right Wall As A Conductor ?