Schedule subject to change.
Concert: Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe are perhaps the most thrilling young duo performing today, offering adrenalized classical concerts that are revolutionizing the piano duo experience for the 21st century. Tickets will be available for you to invite your students and their families. Reception following the concert. Anderson and Roe will perform the commissioned work by composer David Cutler.
Q&A with Anderson and Roe
David Cutler: Savvy Music Teacher Powerhouse Recruitment
Whether you’re hoping to attract a few more students or build a studio from scratch, The Savvy Musician author David Cutler unveils five strategies guaranteed to make your phone ring off the hook.
Bradley Sowash: Improvising is for Everyone
Eye players read music. Ear players improvise. Today’s well-rounded students need instruction in both. Learn to use the basic theory and music reading you already teach as a foundation for students learning to improvise.
Bradley Sowash: That’s Jazz!
Learn to incorporate jazz into studio piano teaching and jazz up your lessons using this successful approach to jazz that can be integrated with both a traditional method and classical selections. Bradley Sowash shares his time-tested technique to help your reading students get “out” of the music and motivate students who tend to play by ear to become better readers.
Sally Bonkrude: Developing Confident Performers in Two Minutes or Less!
We’ve all had students we prepared for performance, yet with shaky hands and trembling inside, they were not able to do their best work. Sally Bonkrude, psychotherapist, music educator and pianist, specializing in performance anxiety gives you quick and easy to implement techniques to confident performing. Learn how to breath, energy, grounding, attention, awareness, the power of “Yes,” plus more, gives your students the edge over anxiety.
Sally Bonkrude: The 12 Key Points to Successful Practice
How many of you have students that come to lesson and say “I just didn’t have time to practice.”? Or, they come to lessons week after week, with little or no improvement. Let’s change that today! The latest brain research shows us the way to positive, successful practice. Join Sally Bonkrude as she walks you through 12 key points to creating a studio of students that are dedicated to practice.
Sally Bonkrude: Music Teachers as Therapist
Sooo….your student walks in the door in tears, or frustrated, or angered….or silent. What do you do? As music teachers, we are privileged to have at our disposal a valuable tool for shifting emotional states, and processing difficult feelings and emotions without words. Ahhh…music! We are therapists in a way, you know. As a music teacher turned therapist, I knew I was doing therapy long before I become licensed to do so. This can be a tricky balancing act. Today, as a music therapist I can show you some easy ways to teach AND address the emotional issues at the same time. Join me!
Banquet – Keynote Speaker Sally Bonkrude: Changing Lives….One Lesson at a Time
Take a trip back in time as Sally Bonkrude looks back over music teachers in her life that change her forever. What are the qualities of music teachers that change lives? Be inspired, uplifted and motivated to carry on with what can be a challenging job in today’s world. Music teachers — YOU give far more than music lessons. What do you teach that you don’t know you’re teaching? What do you give that you don’t know you’re giving? BE INSPIRED!
Emily Rogge: Speaking Through Music
Integrating acting techniques and instrumental performance.
Anita Greenlee: The First Keyboard Instrument – The Organ
A brief history of the organ, how the mechanics of the instrument work and in what ways playing the organ differs from playing the piano. A demonstration will be followed with a hands-on opportunity for all attendees.
Mark Jacoby: Computer Aided Practice
As a growing number of your students have access to laptop computers, iPods, smartphones, wouldn’t it be great to provide practice aids that make use of these devices? Computer Aided Practice will cover the various formats you can provide your students to encourage practicing outside of lessons. Topics addressed will include use of Finale and Sibelius, Standard MIDI file format (.mid), MP3 files and pitch/speed adjustment tools to create custom practice files.
Marc Jacoby: The Best Apps for iPads and Android Devices
With all the new devices and apps being released almost daily, how do can we keep up with the rapid changes? This session will explore current offerings for both iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android platforms that could be useful to music teachers. Apps covered will include tools such as metronomes and tuners as well as production and recording and computer aided instruction.
Terry Cocci: First Steps in Music
An approach for very young children. Workshop will activities and materials.
Jill Townsend: Hand Health
A certified hand therapist, she will speak on preventing injury to the upper extremities.
Robert Bedford: Alexander Technique
A technique to reduce performance anxiety, restore a student’s most natural coordination for many years to come; standing balance, sitting balance at the piano, moving balance as students perform. Introduce your students daily practice to safe, useful principles of body movements.
Vincent Craig: Bach’s Sinfonias and Inventions
West Chester University Faculty Recital
Student Poster Sessions