FALL MUSIC EDUCATOR WORKSHOP
This workshop is sponsored by our partners in travel
Workshop Description
Though many of us spend time teaching sight-singing at the beginning of our choir rehearsals, choristers are not always able to see how the skills they build during this time impact the learning of their choral repertoire. In this session, the musical material in choral octavos will serve as the basis for music reading activities and games. We’ll extract this material from the score (“the way in”) and present it in a way that simultaneously builds music reading skills and prepares performance repertoire. Participants will receive a Professional Development Certificate for 4 hours.
Dr. Angela Kasper has 32 years of experience serving as Director of Choral Activities at the university level where she conducted choirs and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in choral methods, conducting, global choral traditions, and choral literature.
Angie is constantly redefining what makes a meaningful choral experience. No longer bound to a choral ideal that was espoused during her own university education, she is exploring the choral community as a place to expand cultural awareness while experiencing the world’s group singing traditions. Collaboration with culture bearers and traveling abroad for her own study help her realize how little she knows about the vast subject she teaches!
Angie is so fortunate to have met and worked with many young people while conducting honor choirs throughout the United States and abroad including Eastern, Southern, Southwestern, North Central, Central, and Northwestern ACDA Division Conferences, the ACDA National Conference in Salt Lake City, numerous engagements in Asia, South America, and the Middle East, and all-state choirs in over 40 states. Whether it be fourth graders in Indiana or high school students in the United Arab Emirates, she considers every experience to be a reminder of our shared humanity and the power of music to unite us.
Angie is forever grateful to all her teachers and mentors, and to her mom who gave up her own dream of being a choral director to raise a family in a manner that would allow her daughter to realize that dream instead.