Dynamic workshops that actively explore how music is a powerful tool to help us understand and process experiences, emotions and personal identity. Can be uniquely tailored to help young musicians boost their expressive skill set as well as for general audiences in developing a deeper understanding of music and culture.

“Your workshop was wonderful and certainly was a step away from the digital platforms that we all live with today. Loved seeing the emotion wheel…what a great tool!”

- Wes Kenney, Music Director and Conductor for the Denver Young Artist Orchestra

“It was a really wonderful event: educational, interesting and fun. You set it up well and the variety of activities and links kept it moving nicely. You’re a natural educator. We can’t thank you enough for initiating and providing what was the most unique community gathering we’ve so far had.”

- Joan Gabriele, PhD, Director of Undergraduate Enrichment Programs University of Colorado

Young Artist Workshop

Designed for music students to explore their creativity and increase levels of expression through their music making. Young Artist workshop for advanced music students who are able to read musical notation with ease and have high levels of facility on musical instrument or voice.

90 minute run time

What you’ll take away:

• Understand how music creates emotion within your audience

• Develop skills to help you better convey and communicate emotional depth in your musical performance

• Boost self-awareness of how you experience sound and music personally and how that gives you power as an artist to express your own feelings, emotions, and identity.

Activities:

• Discussions about identity, expression, and emotion

• Sound and emotion activities (Tool: Emotion wheel)

  • Listen to musical and sound effect excerpts

  • Soundscape scavenger hunt

• Instrumental playback activities:

  • Mimicry of particular sounds to increase color awareness

  • Musical excerpt play: What tools do we have at our disposal to create desired effects?

Note: a 60 minute version of this workshop is available for youth music students, ages 8-12. Workshop explores creativity and emotional expression for beginning instrumentalists and how we can use building technique to convey meaning with our sound.

General Audience Workshop

No prior musical knowledge or experience required. Can be tailored for any age group.

90 minute run time

What you’ll take away:

• Learn different types of musical engagement (all humans are musical and music is not reserved for “musicians” or those who are “talented”).

• Build self-awareness of how music is personal to you and how it shapes your experiences

• Understand how you can use music to help process your feelings, emotions, and identity

Activities:

• Listening activities: linking individual sounds and music excerpts to our emotions

• Sound and movement exercises to dramatize physical responses to sound

• Conductor + Orchestra activity where all participants engage in sound game to experience making music

• Discussions based around each activity to explore parts of the music process

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