Different Interests.
One Love of Harmony.

Is This a Good Fit for Me?

Choose this track when you want to become a more effective chapter leader, understand how your team works together, or help your chapter plan for its future.

What This Area Can Explore

• Leadership habits: listening, communicating clearly, sharing responsibility, and following through.
• Building a chapter team: clarifying roles, supporting volunteers, mentoring future leaders, and planning smooth handovers.
• Turning chapter needs into goals, useful meetings, and manageable action plans.
• Supporting a welcoming chapter culture and working together on member engagement.

Make It Useful at Home

Bring a real chapter challenge and identify one leadership action you could take with your team.

This track develops chapter leadership. Music leadership and performance skills also appear in Music & Performance; choose the class that addresses your actual role.

Is This a Good Fit for Me?

Choose this track when your questions are about the song, the ensemble, rehearsal, or the connection with an audience.

What This Area Can Explore

• Interpreting lyrics and shaping phrases with musical intention.
• Listening across parts and making ensemble decisions together.
• Exploring repertoire, rehearsal approaches, and performance expression.

Make It Useful at Home

Bring a musical question you want to explore with your quartet or chorus.

Singing & Vocal focuses more closely on your voice and singing skills. These two tracks can complement one another.

Is This a Good Fit for Me?

Choose this track when you want to understand your singing, listen more effectively, or feel more confident contributing your part.

What This Area Can Explore

• Vocal fundamentals and awareness of how you produce sound.
• Pitch, vowels, resonance, and listening within a barbershop ensemble.
• Connecting vocal skills with clear, expressive singing.

Make It Useful at Home

Bring a question about your own singing and look for an idea to explore at rehearsal.

Read each class description for its intended experience level and preparation. A track name is a subject guide, not a skill-level assessment.

Is This a Good Fit for Me?

Choose this track when your focus is introducing barbershop to others and helping new singers feel connected.

What This Area Can Explore

• Making a welcoming first impression and following up with new singers.
• Connecting with schools, educators, and your wider community.
• Listening to younger voices and building relationships across generations.

Make It Useful at Home

Bring an outreach idea and consider who you want to reach, what they need, and a realistic next step.

This is a subject area, not an age restriction. Check individual class descriptions for any participation requirements.

Who Is It for?

Quartets who want dedicated time to sing, listen, and explore ways to strengthen their performance as a group.

What Can You Bring?

Consider a song you are working on and the questions your quartet would like to explore. Specific preparation guidance will be shared with booking details.

Friday Quartet Coaching

Friday, January 8, 2027, will offer places for nine quartets, on a first-come, first-served basis, with six faculty coaches. Coach names will be announced.

Coaching runs from 9:00 AM to noon. Each quartet receives two one-hour coaching blocks with two different coaches and one hour off. After noon, quartet members are free to attend other Harmony Academy classes. Coached quartets will also perform that Friday evening at the same event as the Harmony on the River Festival Chorus. Quartet rotations, rooms, and booking details will be announced. General Academy registration does not automatically reserve a coaching place.

Is This a Good Fit for Me?

Choose this category when you want a starting point or a broader perspective alongside a specialist track.

What This Area Can Explore

• Practical chapter officer classes for presidents, treasurers, secretaries, and vice presidents.
• Chapter support, general Academy learning, and cross-topic sessions.
• An introduction to ideas you may want to explore further.

Make It Useful at Home

Use the class description to decide how a session fits your own learning goals.

Core classes are offered once during the weekend. Check the day and time when building your schedule. A Core class is not automatically required or added to your schedule.

What Is Included?

• Group sessions shared by attendees.
• Lunch: time to take a break and connect with fellow barbershoppers.

Look for the red Included label in the schedule to recognize these shared parts of the day.

Plan Your Classes Around It.

Included sessions form part of your schedule alongside the classes you choose. Check their times and locations when planning your day.