Workshops & Events

KCM Chapter Sharing

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:30:24 -0500

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Ivy Rawlins Ward

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:15:11 -0600

African-American Songs and Singing Games
Presenter: Ivy Rawlins Ward
February 13, 2010
8:30am-1:00pm
Location: St. Thomas University, St. Paul, MN - Murray-Herrick 304

Ivy Rawlins has a diploma from the Kodaly Musical Training Institute. She
has taught vocal music in the public schools of Washington, D.C., Boston,
Hartford, and Baltimore. As a faculty member of the Kodaly Musical
Training Institute, Holy Names College, and the Harrt College of Music
she taught methodology, materials, and solfege, and supervised student
teachers. She is a co-author of the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill basic series
Share the Music and Spotlight on Music. Ivy has given numerous
workshops throughout the United States and has been a clinician in
Australia and Canada. She specializes in American folk music, especially
African American children's songs and singing games.

Angela Broeker

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:30:09 -0600

Practice, Polish, and Perform - The Kodaly Process Applied to the Choral Setting.
Presenter: Dr. Angela Broeker
November 21, 2009
8:30am-1:00pm
Location: St. Thomas University, St. Paul, MN - Murray-Herrick 304

This workshop explores ways to teach choral music to children’s choirs while presenting and practicing musical literacy. Participants will receive helpful tips on polishing music for performance, including instructions in vowel and consonant production as well as solutions for common choral challenges. A packet of music appropriate for young choirs will sere as repertoire for the day.

Angela Broeker is Director of Choral Activities at the University of St. Thomas where she conducts the Chamber Singers and Concert Choir and teachers undergraduate courses in choral conducting and choral methodology. She is active in the school’s Graduate Programs in Music Education, Teaching and supervising students perusing a Master’s Degree in Music Education with a Choral Concentration.

In addition to her university responsibilities, Dr. Broeker is a national clinician specializing in treble choirs. She present for national, regional, and state conventions of the Music Educators National Conference, The American Choral Directors Association, the Organization of American Kodaly Educators, and the American Orff-Schulwerk Associations. Dr. Broeker serves as guest conductor for numerous honors choirs including all-state treble or children’s choirs throughout the United States and regional/national honor choirs for OAKE and ACDA.
Dr. Broker received her D.M.A. degree from the University of Oklahoma and her M.M. and B.M.E. degrees from Indiana University. Her research interests include seventeenth-century vocal music suitable for treble choirs and authentic respectful performance of music from diverse cultures. She served as guest editor of the April 2006 Choral Journal and has written articles fro the April 2009 and April 2006 Choral Journal, the July 200 Music Educators Journal, the MENC Spotlight on Teaching Chorus, the spring 2008 Orff Echo as well as many local and regional music publications. She lives in St. Paul with her dog and her husband-composer, Jay.

John Feierabend

Sat, 3 Oct 2009 13:33:51 -0500

First Steps in Music
Presenter: Dr. John Feierabend
October 3, 2009
8:30am-1:00pm
Location: St. Thomas University, St. Paul, MN - Murray-Herrick 304

Dr. John Feierabend is considered one of the leading authorities on music and movement development in early childhood. He is a Professor of Music and the Director of the Music Education Division at The Hartt School of the University of Hartford and is a past President of the Organization of American Kodály Educators. Dr. Feierabend makes frequent presentations both in the United States and abroad and is the author of over 60 books, articles, CDs, DVDs and videotapes.

A music educator for over thirty years, he continues to be committed to collecting, preserving and teaching the diverse folk music of our country and using that folk music as a bridge to help children understand and enjoy classical music. His books are a result of his belief that when many generations share common experiences such as traditional folk songs and rhymes, it helps them develop a valuable but dwindling commodity - a sense of community. When adults share child like memories with children they not only connect children with their ancestors, they enrich their children's childhood and enable their children to some day tap into their own delicious childhood memories in order to share that same repertoire with their children.