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Workshop Series 2009-2010
Optional *** You can also take
this Workshop Series for 1 Graduate Credit through New England
Conservatory. New England Conservatory's fees have been DRASTICALLY
REDUCED this year - only $230 extra for the graduate credit ($195 credit
fee + $35 NEC registration). You will need to
fill in the Course Title (Kodály BAKE Workshops Fall 2008) and
the Course Code (XADL 505). Click HERE
for the NEC registration form and information.
Please note:
If taking the BAKE workshops for graduate credit, you must register
with both institutions and pay both organizations their
respective fees.
Workshop #1 - Choral Symposium
Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009, 9am-1pm (registration
& coffee at 8:30 am)
Location: Williams School, 141
Grove St, Auburndale, MA 02466
Clinician: Elaine Quilichini
Demonstration Choir: Vocal Vacation Alumni Singers
Elaine Quilichini is recognized for her exceptional
musicianship and distinguished work with choral ensembles. As a Master
of Music (Kodály Emphasis), she is in demand as a clinician,
lecturer, adjudicator and guest conductor across Canada, the United
States, Brazil, Europe and Australia.
In 1995 Ms. Quilichini founded the Calgary Girls Choir,
one of Canada’s most dynamic and award-winning ensembles. In addition
to her private music studio, she also directs the University of Calgary’s
Women’s Choir. A notable indication of Ms. Quilichini’s stature
in the choral community is her series published by Alliance Music Publishing,
Houston, Texas.
Packet of children's choral music included in workshop.
Registration MUST be in by September 6th in order to be guaranteed a
choral packet.
Workshop #2 - "Three In
One "
Saturday,
Oct 24,2009 9am-1pm (registration & coffee at 8:30 am)
Location: Williams School, 141 Grove
St, Auburndale, MA 02466
1. International Folk Dances
Clinician:
Martha Holmes
Ms.
Holmes, Coordinator for Canción Choirs at Vocal Vacation at New
England Conservatory, also teaches folk dance, recorder and solfège.
In 2008 she published an SSA arrangement of a Bulgarian Folk Song, "Rumjana"
with Boosey and Hawkes. She maintains her professional singing performance
career as a longtime member of the Cambridge Madrigal Singers. Mrs.
Holmes has nearly 30 years experience as a music teacher and choral
conductor in public and private school music. Currently she teaches
in Newton Public Schools, and she is vice-president of the Boston Area
Kodály Educators as well as is a regular music column writer
for the national periodical ENVOY (published by the Organization of
American Kodály Educators).
2. Music Listening Lessons
Clinician:
Margie Callaghan
Margie
Callaghan – Vocalist, Co-Director of the Kodály
Music Institute Summer program, and teaches Level I Pedagogy and Materials
at KMI. She teaches general music (K-6) and directs the choral program
at the Blanchard Memorial Elementary School in Boxborough, MA. She holds
a B. Mus. Ed. from Central Michigan University, a M. Ed. with Kodály
emphasis from Anna Maria College, and Kodály certification from
the Kodály Music Institute at New England Conservatory.
3. TBD
Clinician:
Tom Morris
Tom
Morris, Coordinator of Vocal Vacation’s high school choir, Chamber
Singers, has eighteen years of teaching experience at the elementary
and middle school levels. He holds a Master of School Leadership from
Wheelock College and a Master of Kodály from Holy Names College.
Mr. Morris has taught public school choral and general music in Maryland,
California and he currently teaches at the Peirce School in Newton,
Massachusetts. He conducts the Jamaica Plain division of Boston City
Singers Youth Chorus and serves as the Director of Training Chorus Programs
for that organization.
Workshop #3 - "Weaving
Elementary Choir Rehearsals into General Classroom Lessons"
Saturday,
November 15, 2009, 9am-1pm (registration & coffee at 8:30 am)
Location:
Williams School, 141 Grove St, Auburndale,
MA 02466
Clinician: Connie Foss More
Ms. More been a music teacher and clinician since 1969,
with students from pre-school age through adulthood in public schools,
universities, and at the Victoria Conservatory of Music. Her choirs
consistently have earned high acclaim in concerts, festivals and competitions.
Ms More founded the Greater Victoria Youth Choir in
1988, overseeing its transformation to VIVA Choirs in 1994 as an independent
non-profit organization under the umbrella of the Victoria Youth Choirs
Society. With endless enthusiasm and energy, she coaches treble-voiced
children as well as singers with changing and changed voices.
Kodály Music Institute
at New England Conservatory
Level
II - Academic Year Program
September
15, 2008 – June 8, 2009
Levels
I, II, III, IV - Summer Program
June 29– July 17, 2009
Post Certificate Course
June 29– July 17, 2009
Taste
of Kodály
June
29– July 2, 2009
The
Kodály Music Institute offers a certificate program in three
levels with increasingly complex
musical and pedagogical skill development, an introductory course
for those who wish a “taste only,”
and a post-certificate course for graduates of recognized Kodály
programs to apprentice with renowned
teachers and conductors.
Please visit
the Kodály
Music Institute website or the New
England Conservatory website for more information
Endorsed by Organization of American Kodály
Educators
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