USD Department of Music to Host Directors Institute June 21-23
Both intensive programs are designed to expose music educators to the best in current and standard literature in addition to teaching methods and materials. The programs include large ensemble reading sessions, master classes and clinic sessions that focus on a wide variety of teaching subjects for band and choral directors.
Participants in either institute will have the option to earn graduate credit for completion of certain sessions – with payment of $40 per credit hour. Selected clinicians and/or USD faculty instruct all sessions.
Band Directors Institute
This program will feature guest clinician, Carol Brittan Chambers, composer and owner of Aspenwood Music and a music faculty member at Texas Lutheran University. Chambers is commissioned each year to compose and arrange works for concert band, marching band, orchestra and various other ensembles.
Her concert works have been selected to the J.W. Pepper Editor’s Choice List and the Bandworld Top 100 and have been performed at state educator conferences across the country. She has arranged and orchestrated marching shows for numerous high school and college bands over the region, as well as The Crossmen Drum Corps.
Graduate courses available in this institute include MUS790 Instrumental Techniques and Ideas for Music Educators, MUS790 New and Standard Music for the Instrumental Music Educator and MUS790 Tendencies and Trends for the Instrumental Music Educator.
Learn more about the Band Directors Institute and register online.
Choral Directors Institute
This program will feature guest clinician, Jennaya Robison, D.M.A., Raymond R. Neevel/Missouri associate professor in Choral Music and director of Choral Studies in the conservatory at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she conducts the conservatory singers and leads the graduate program in choral conducting.
Robison has conducted and taught courses in choral singing and global connection in the United States, Namibia, South Africa and Germany. Additionally, she was the artistic director of Scottsdale Musical Arts, a multi-generational organization composed of a professional orchestra and choir as well as children’s choirs and youth orchestras. She currently serves as the American Choral Directors Association national co-chair for student activities.
Graduate courses available in this institute include MUS793 Instructional Techniques and Classroom Ideas for the Choral Music Teacher, MUS793 New and Standard Choral Music for Education and MUS793 Tendencies and Trends in Choral Music Education
Learn more about the Choral Directors Institute and register online.
For more information contact David Sanderson, assistant professor of music education, at 605-658-3476 or at David.N.Sanderson@usd.edu.
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