Summer SmARTS Music Workshops

 

Choral Workshop: Preparation for Adjudication

June 11 - 14, 2012

Take your choral group to competition in top form! Learn techniques for preparing your group to perform for adjudication while you also explore new and exciting music. Finish the week with a concert of the group’s favorites, and take home a folder of 50 now-familiar new pieces to work on with your own singers. Standard choral music reading workshops are all too common. While these events introduce new choral music, the selections are often read too quickly, with little or no attention to evaluation or analysis. The only activity for participants is singing. 

At our workshop approximately 50 selections will be introduced, studied, rehearsed and presented by educators within a classroom environment. You will also receive effective interactive instruction in choral directing, analysis and evaluation, discussion, and design of lesson plans suitable for secondary choral classroom use. This workshop culminates with a concert, Thursday, June 14 at 7 p.m.

2012 Summer Jazz Institute

June 17 - 23, 2012

Realize your Jazz potential and achieve it with this popular, week-long workshop. The UT Summer Jazz Institute is the place where ALL levels of jazz students can discover and achieve their jazz potential through the study of jazz in one of four exceptional programs: instrumental jazz, vocal jazz, teacher training and NEW THIS YEAR jazz appreciation.

Books to Sing, Dance, Act & Play

June 25 - 29, 2012

This is a hands-on workshop for librarians, music teachers, elementary teachers, education students and music education students. We will integrate music, children's literature, drama and art in activities that are appropriate for pre-school through middle school. This workshop will be framed using the Orff-Schulwerk process of music and movement education.  No prior experience with music or movement is needed; beginners and advanced students are welcome.

Art Song Festival & Workshops

June 25 - July 1, 2012

Denise Ritter-Bernardini, the festival's artistic director and the newest member of the UT Music Department vocal faculty, brings this exciting and sought-after festival and its same great faculty to the University of Toledo. The Art Song Festival and Workshops, is dedicated to promoting recital performances as well as to training singers and collaborative pianists in the fine art of recital planning and performance. This one week festival is packed with master classes, voice lessons, coaching sessions and recital performances as well as classes geared for the student and emerging professional singer and pianist.