UPCOMING
WORKSHOPS
September 11, 2010
- Jay Broeker
"The Creative Classroom" - This
workshop provides procedural models and sample materials for
developing students' musical understanding through a variety of
Orff Schulwerk media and experiences. Workshop activities will
include sequential experiences for eliciting and structuring
students' creative responses as well as models for helping
students and teachers assess the musical understanding inherent
in each product or experience.
Jay Broeker's teaching experience spans
preschool through college programs. A graduate of Indiana
University, Jay has been a music teacher at schools in Texas,
Indiana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. He was on the
faculty at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania,
where he taught courses in music education and aural skills and
accompanied the Westminster College Choirs. His commissioned
choral works have been performed by OAKE National and ACDA
Regional Honor Choirs, Oklahoma and Ohio All-State Children's
Choirs, and the Westminster College and University of St. Thomas
choirs.
Mr. Broeker holds both Kodály and Orff
Schulwerk certification, and is a frequent clinician for
national and state music education organizations. He currently
serves as President of the Minnesota Orff Chapter of AOSA.
During the summer he is an instructor in music teacher training
courses at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and the
University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Mr. Broeker is currently on the faculty of
The Blake School in Hopkins, Minnesota, where he teaches general
music in grades K - 5. His choral arrangements are published by
Santa Barbara Music Publishing and by Boosey & Hawkes.
January 29, 2011 -
Sara McCall
April 2, 2011 -
Cindy Hall
Orff Schulwerk: Playing with a Purpose -
Cindy Hall will present active Orff Schulwerk lessons with an
emphasis on melodic and rhythmic curriculum concepts. Using
poetry, folk song, drama, instrumental pieces, and movement,
participants will work through the process of imitation,
exploration, and improvisation. Please bring a soprano recorder.
Cindy Hall teaches Orff certification
courses at The University of St. Thomas and the University of
Kentucky and is an active conference and workshop clinician. She
has taught music to children in public and private schools,
directed an after school arts program, and conducted church
children’s choirs. She served as a contributing writer of
recorder materials for the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill series, Share
the Music. Ms. Hall holds a BA in Music from Duke University, MA
in Music Education from the University of Oklahoma, and Orff
Certification from Memphis State University and Hamline
University. She currently teaches first through fifth grade
music and chorus at Rowland Hall- St. Mark’s School in Salt
Lake City.
March 31, 2012 -
Roger Sams
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