enhancing individuals, families
& communities through the arts
& communities through the arts
Workshops
BAND WORKSHOP
Saturday 12:45 -1:15, Band Room
Title: Having Fun with Rhythm & Improvisations
for intermediate students
This session will include a review of appropriate counting techniques for young musicians also used by professional musicians. These principles will be applied to improvisation. Please bring your instruments – everything discussed and reviewed will be reinforced by applying these concepts to real performance and improvisation. This session will reinforce the understanding and application of scales, issues of tone production, ear training and listening skills, musical understanding, and the importance of individual leadership while working together as a group.
PIANO WORKSHOPS
Saturday 10:45 – 11:15, Auditorium
Title: Piano Problem-Solving Workshop
for beginning/intermediate students
This workshop focuses on solutions to common problems experienced by developing pianists, including technique, voicing and balance, pedaling, polyrhythms, and memory. Special consideration will be given to productive, efficient, and delightful practice. Volunteers will have the opportunity to bring their own repertoire for demonstration.
Saturday 1:45-2:30, Auditorium
Title: Expectation and Surprise in Rachmaninoff’s Preludes
for intermediate/advanced students & teachers
When performers think like composers, it can lead them to exciting interpretive choices that amplify special moments for the listener. As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninoff’s birth, take a deep dive into some of his most well-loved compositions. Rachmaninoff’s preludes develop unique patterns of expectation and surprise based on their own self-contained logic. Enrich your appreciation and teaching of these masterpieces!
Saturday 4:00, Auditorium
Title: Cracking the Practice Code
for all participants, parents, and teachers
How do you get really good at music really fast? Daniel Coyle’s influential 2009 book, “The Talent Code” has been praised for its insight in the development of talent. Using researched gathered from “talent hotbeds” around the world, from tennis clubs to music schools, and further confirmed by laboratory research, this book popularized powerful new discoveries in skill acquisition and improvement. This presentation will apply the most important of these discoveries to practicing music, including habits and mindset, practice and the brain, and practice strategies to apply right away. Follow along with a handout for 30 easy-to-remember tips and a list of recommended resources for further learning.
STRINGS WORKSHOP
Saturday 11:30 – 12:00, Media Center
Title: Learn the Secrets of the Bow
for all students and teachers
Come and explore how to achieve better tone, an even spiccato, a rolling bariolage and much more. Come with any bow challenges you have and together we will explore some principles and practice techniques to helping you achieve any bow technique challenge!
VOCAL WORKSHOP
Saturday 9:15 – 9:45, Choir Room
Title: Breathing – It’s Not Just For Living Anymore
for intermediate students
Somewhere along the line in our youth we lost the ability to breathe. We watched many cartoons, superheroes, and professional wrestling characters and THINK we know how to breathe from them. (Sorry to tell you, but they are not real!) Breathing to sing is harder than breathing to live.
This clinic will help the middle level singer (or those who just think they are older) to breathe in order to sing with their God-given voice. It takes more air to sing than it does to live. How to access that strength of breath is what the singer (and others) will learn to do.
More than just the acquiring of information, the participants will also get some practice at it with a variety of games, repeatable tricks, and competitions. Warning: Fun will not be optional.