Upcoming Music Education Workshops
Professional Development for Teachers
Off the Podium: How to Use Musical Concepts and Alternate Teaching Techniques to Build Your Beginning Band
Clinic Synopsis: Lord Melbourne in Fifth Grade? Awareness of musical form, texture, tone, articulations and ensemble timbre in that first year? Follow a new curricular process toward bridging the gap from general music to beginning band while turning your novices into musical thinkers and sensitive performers. See a live demonstration of prize-winning composer Jodie Blackshaw’s revolutionary elementary band approaches in action.
Clinician Name: Jodie Blackshaw (jodie_blackshaw@yahoo.com.au)
Blackshaw is an experienced music educator, published composer, and middle school band director. In 2005, her Grade 1 piece, Whirlwind, was the First Prize Winner of the Frank Ticheli Composition Contest. She is fanatical about producing high quality, meaningful works for band and appears as a guest clinician and adjudicator for band festivals throughout Australia. Blackshaw desires that her music, “Be not just another piece, but an educational and spiritual journey, for players and director alike."
Summer Music Workshops at Perpich
CEUs will be given at each workshop.
Graduate Credit is available for the Finale and SmartMusic workshops.
http://perpich.mn.gov/index.php?section=news_outreach&prrid=46
Resources for Music Educators
This google site is updated frequently by Jessica Leibfried, State Music Education Coordinator for Professional Development at Perpich Center for Arts Education.
https://sites.google.com/a/pcae.k12.mn.us/resources-for-music-educators/home
Schubert Club Composer Mentorship Program
The Schubert Club seeks applications from high school student musicians in the greater Twin Cities area for its free annual Composer Mentorship Program.
Each Spring, talented high-school student composers in the greater Twin Cities area will be selected to work with The Schubert Club’s composer-in-residence Edie Hill for the coming academic year. Specific opportunities include: composition and repertoire, notation and orchestration, attendance at local performances, rehearsals, and workshops, a premiere of their work on The Schubert Club’s Courtroom Concert Series by horn trio, Melange á Trois (horn, violin, piano), and a one-year membership to the American Composers Forum
Deadline to apply: Monday, June 2, 2014
Rules and application are available for download here:
http://schubert.org/education/composer-mentorship/
The mentorship program is offered free of charge to each selected composer and is sponsored in part by HRK Foundation.