Upcoming Workshops

     South Texas

           January 23, 2010

Ivy Rawlins-Ward, clinician

African American Songs and Singing Games

University of Houston Professional Continuing Studies; Moores School of Music

Contact: Janet Scarcella   jscarcella@sbcglobal.ne

North Texas

 Dr. Jill Trinka will present "Recharge Your Repertoire Batteries!  Listen, Sing, Move, Think, and Play"

 Saturday, January 23 from 9AM-4PM at the Sockwell Center for Professional Development in Plano, TX.

This workshop is sponsored by Kodaly Educators of Texas, Plano ISD Kodaly Training Program and TMEA Regions 2 & 25. Registration is attached!

Please contact Tina Arenas, North Texas KET Representative for more details at tarenas@dentonisd.org.

Dr. Jill Trinka:  When she's not singing, dancing, performing, teaching, writing textbooks, or conducting residencies in schools, Dr. Trinka teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in music education at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN.  Professor Trinka specializes in American folk music---including performance on guitar, autoharp, dulcimer, and banjo--musicianship, folk song analysis and classification, elementary music education, and world music. She was a 1974-75 Ford Foundation Ringer Fellow at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, where she studied Kodály philosophy and practice in music education under Erzsébet Szönyi, Helga Szabó, Katalin Forrai, László, Víkar, and László Dobszay.

Dr. Trinka has recorded and written four volumes of folksongs, singing games, and play parties for kids of all ages:  My Little Rooster (1987), Bought Me a Cat (1988), John, the Rabbit (1989), and The Little Black Bull (1996).  Her collaborative recordings with John Feierabend, Had a Little Rooster, Old Joe Clark, and There's a Hole in the Bucket were released by GIA publications in 2006. She was president of OAKE  (2000-2002) and received their Outstanding Educator Award in 2003.  Jill is also a contributing author to Pearson/Scott Foresman/Silver Burdett's Making Music, Grades 5-8, and has also served as a recording artist for them.
 

Registration Form

Tina Arenas, Music Teacher
W.S. Ryan Elementary
201 W Ryan Road
Denton, Texas 76210
940.369.4622
tarenas@dentonisd.org

Monday, Jan 18th (MLK Day)
Hardin-Simmons University
Choir Hall, Hemphill Music Bldg
9:00am – 12:00

Kodaly Music Workshop With Cecile Johnson

"Kodaly Beyond the Basics - Refining Your Lessons for Higher Level Concepts, Contexts, and Creativity"

Topics to include:   Improvisation Activities, Simplifying Compound Meter, and Teaching of Syn-CO-pa,

Cecile Johnson has been the music specialist at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Denton, Texas since 1987.  She is founder and director of the school’s All-Star Choir which was twice designated a TMEA Elementary Honor Choir.  She has served on the Organization of American Kodaly Educators National Board and  is a Past President of KET.  Mrs. Johnson completed Kodaly (OAKE) certification at the University of North Texas, and now teaches music pedagogy in college classes and several Kodaly teacher training programs.

Register by Mail:  Kodaly Music Workshop
                HSU Box 16230
                       Abilene, Texas 79698

$35 if postmarked by January 11, 2010
$40 after Jan 11, and at the door
Make checks payable to HSU-MENC


 

Central Texas

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West Texas

Hardin-Simmons University invites you to a Kodaly Music Workshop With Cecile Johnson.

Monday, Jan 18th (MLK Day)
Hardin-Simmons University
Choir Hall, Hemphill Music Bldg
9:00am – 12:00

"Kodaly Beyond the Basics - Refining Your Lessons for Higher Level Concepts, Contexts, and Creativity"
Topics to include:   Improvisation Activities, Simplifying Compound Meter, and Teaching of Syn-CO-pa,
Register by Mail:  Kodaly Music Workshop
                            HSU Box 16230
                            Abilene, Texas 79698
$35 if postmarked by January 11, 2010
$40 after Jan 11, and at the door