This has led to wider conversations about diversity across all fields of endeavor, including music. The year 2020 has been one of great turmoil, not only because of the disruptions to our ways of living with the Covid-19 pandemic, but because of the ongoing protests and general outcry against racism across the United States. To purchase scores by a number of historical and living BIPOC composers. With the help of this training, Maxim’s goal is to learn how to make his work with beginners more efficient through a focus on pedagogical methodology, encouraging help from parents, and using the experience of a generation of Suzuki teachers. This year’s teacher training program curriculum includes writing lesson plans, as well as observing, discussing, and trying different kinds of teaching techniques. Marina Obukovsky is head of the Piano Department at SFS and Suzuki Department at Mannes College. Teacher trainees practice how to teach these students and their parents in individual and group settings under the advice and leadership of teacher trainer, Marina Obukovsky. SFS recruits beginner piano students with a purpose of training new Suzuki teachers. This year, the teacher trainees are becoming faculty members of SFS as part of the Start-Up Program. Max has entered the last year of the Teacher Training program at the Suzuki School for Strings. To enroll in the second half of the second year of the Suzuki teacher training program at SFS. From studying urtext along with more recent editions, to comparing the German and French Baroque, to making use of the amazing Slow Downer and Google transposer apps, it was an in-depth and multi-faceted journey that will enrich my own teaching and that I will want to share with my students in the years ahead. And what was abundantly clear, was the wealth of information that we could use and avail ourselves of. The teacher of this course, Wendy Stern, also encouraged each of us to share our own teaching experiences as well as teach one of the pieces in the book. Immersing myself further in the Suzuki Flute Book 4 training was so important on a number of levels: 1) focusing on Baroque repertoire 2) learning to teach Baroque performance practices, especially to young students 3) availing ourselves of recent technologies to enhance teaching as well as engage students and 4) discovering multiple other resources from which to draw upon to deepen the learning experience for students. Receiving the Clifford/Levy Creativity Grant this academic year was particularly meaningful as it confirmed that we can embrace learning and recharge even during difficult times. To enroll in the Suzuki Flute Book 4 course taught by Wendy Stern through the Great Lakes Suzuki Flute and Recorder Institute. The developing work will be presented in-progress at several points during the residency through a series of workshops which will focus on different aspects of collaboration and improvisation. This grant supports the inclusion of a master musical improviser, saxophonist/clarinetist/flutist Marty Ehrlich, who will act as mentor to the project and will also perform with the group. ![]() The group will be part of a year-long pilot residency program of the New York Chapter of the Dalcroze Society of America during the calendar-year of 2023.įor its residency, Loco Motors will create an evening length performance that combines the compositions of Michael Joviala, the choreography of Dawn Pratson, and the improvisation of both. The core members are Michael Joviala, piano and composition, and Dawn Pratson, dance and choreography. The group also has a special interest in the somatic connection between sound and movement, and in using that connection as a basis for artistic creation. ![]() Loco Motors is a music and dance group inspired by both the practice of Dalcroze eurhythmics and the jazz tradition of open-form improvisation, sometimes known as ‘free jazz’. ![]() Creation and performance of an evening length work with the improvising music and movement group, ‘Loco Motors’.
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