Join vocal artist Rhiannon for an immersive workshop with guest teaching artists from around the world to bring improvisation into your ensemble, choir, or music classroom. Build your library of exercises to support work in the traditional classroom setting and/or vocal ensemble or traditional choral setting.
We study how vocal improvisation can be effectively used in educational curricula for preschool, grade school, junior high, high school, college, and conservatory. We find the ways by singing together in small and large groups, bringing teachers with expertise about each level to share their ideas and experiences, playing joyous and complex games that advance the skills of improvisation, sitting together to relate classroom stories, duets, rhythms, and moving to music.
Each step of the way, we acknowledge that improvisation promotes listening, blending, flexibility, creative passion, community, collaboration, and amazing spontaneous music.
In the end, together we develop lessons and curricula for all these levels that any teacher can use in their own classroom. The more we share, the more we know about one another's skills and experiences, the more improvisation will become embedded in the music life of our children and free us to pursue the variety of music we all want to pass on.
Please note: This workshop is specifically for teachers and directors.
