BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//OMTA - Oregon Music Teachers Association - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://oregonmta.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for OMTA - Oregon Music Teachers Association
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20200308T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20201101T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20210314T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20211107T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20220313T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20221106T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210409T104500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210409T121500
DTSTAMP:20260606T183442
CREATED:20210123T181426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210214T224236Z
UID:5230-1617965100-1617970500@oregonmta.org
SUMMARY:Grant Event - Playing Perfectly: What It Takes to Practice and Perform Completely Without Mistakes (or Fear of Mistakes) - Yes\, It's Possible!
DESCRIPTION:Local Contact: For more information please contact Janet Smith.\nLocation: Zoom\, for access please contact Susan Todd.\nPresenting District: Central Oregon\nPresenter: Jennifer Wright [expand title=”Read Presenter Bio” swaptitle=” “]Jennifer Wright\, M.M.\, B.M.\, is a keyed-instruments performer\, composer\, educator\, graphic artist\, event producer and culture-maker. She is passionate about creating beautiful\, thought-provoking cultural realities and memorable\, multi-sensory performance experiences. Her work melds diverse artistic disciplines and expressions to create adventurous contexts that reshape the landscape of performative experience in order to engage\, inspire\, move\, and change both the giver and the receiver for the better. Jennifer performs regularly as a solo and collaborative artist and has presented numerous concerts\, master classes\, and workshops in the U.S.A.\, the U.K.\, Europe\, and Cuba. \nJennifer graduated summa cum laude from the Hartt School of Music in Hartford\, CT with a Bachelor of Music in piano performance and studied for two years at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst and Universität Stuttgart in Germany. She was awarded several Distinctions for her Masters Degree achievements in performance and musicological research at the Trinity College of Music in London\, England in the Historically Informed Piano Performance degree program. \nJennifer mischievously mixes experimental\, visceral\, and utterly listenable elements in an ever-evolving mix of her wide-ranging obsessions and curious whims\, including repurposing pianos and other instruments\, video art\, found sound\, alternative keyed instruments\, sound sculptures\, theatricality\, trash instruments\, the natural world\, movement/dance\, science\, silliness\, electronics\, fashion\, and live art-making. Much of her work focuses around her one-of-a-kind “Skeleton Piano\,” an upright piano that she stripped of its exterior\, altered mightily\, and plays from the inside out with wild extended techniques and electronic modification. \nHer compositions have been performed at the 29th and 31st Annual Festival de La Habana de Música Contemporánea in Cuba\, the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival\, The Astoria Music Festival\, Portland International Piano Festival\, Portland’s March Music Moderne festivals\, Crazy Jane Composers and Cascadia Composers concerts\, on KBOO\, XRAY and KTCB radio\, on KGW TV and Cuban National TV\, by Portland’s Resonance Ensemble\, the Free Marz String Trio\, the Delgani Quartet\, and in recitals in the U.S.\, England\, and Finland. \nMore info available at jenniferwrightpianostudio.com and skeletonpiano.com.[/expand]\nProgram Description: Have you heard a “kind” instructor say that making mistakes is normal\,[expand title=”Read More” swaptitle=” “]human\, even a valuable part of the learning process? Or that striving for musical perfection is akin to being a lifeless robot and even creatively dangerous? Perhaps you heard a “tough love” teacher remark that you’re only as good as your last performance and that if you’re not perfect\, you’re not even in the game? \nWhich perspective is the right one? Surprise: they all are – to a point! The secret is in the mix. This workshop shows how to reconcile these viewpoints into a joyous lifelong practice approach and gives you the tools and practice techniques to eliminate mistakes (and the terrible fear of mistakes) entirely from your playing. Let’s waste no time in giving this gift to ourselves and to our students! \nIn this workshop we’ll cover:\n• Why do we make mistakes?\n• What are you actually doing wrong? (Hint: it’s usually not what you think.)\n• Practice techniques: the good\, the bad\, and the useless\n• How to fix ingrained mistakes and habits\n• The power of habits and human nature: you can fight them\, or you can make them work for you…it’s your choice\n• Tapping into your innate learning instincts for powerful progress\n• Once you get it\, it’s all fun and games! \nBring your “That’s impossible” stories\, your “I’ve tried and I can’t” tales\, your burning questions\, and your overwhelming challenges with you – so we can knock them down one by one![/expand]
URL:https://oregonmta.org/event/district-grant-event-playing-perfectly-what-it-takes-to-practice-and-perform-completely-without-mistakes-or-fear-of-mistakes-yes-its-possible/
LOCATION:Virtual/Online
CATEGORIES:District Grant Event,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Janet Smith":MAILTO:jstrekkie@gmail.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210413T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210413T113000
DTSTAMP:20260606T183442
CREATED:20210207T010925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210220T232907Z
UID:5330-1618308000-1618313400@oregonmta.org
SUMMARY:Grant Event - Acquiring Aural Skills: Listening Deeply
DESCRIPTION:Local Contact: For more information please contact Rosanne Smith.\nLocation: Zoom\, for access please contact Susan Todd.\nPresenting District: Linn-Benton\nPresenter: American pianist Johnandrew Slominski [expand title=”Read Presenter Bio” swaptitle=” “]enjoys a distinguished reputation as a performer and pedagogue. He has been hailed as “a remarkable\, brilliant\, and gifted pianist” (Chautauquan Daily)\, commended for performing with “a great deal of intellect” (89.9 KBPS Portland)\, and recognized for his communicative performance: “I was profoundly moved by his performance… He has a musicianship that transcends his youthfulness.” (Eye on Sun Valley). His 2016 San Francisco concert debut\, presented by the New Piano Collective\, earned praise as “awe-inspiring” and “ear-opening” from Stephen Smoliar of the San Francisco Examiner. Slominski seamlessly navigates the landscape of a varied and thriving career as a soloist\, chamber musician\, music theorist\, author\, pedagogue\, and speaker. Highlights of his current season include a solo CD released on the Centaur Records label\, an all-Schubert disc with soprano Kayleen Sánchez released on the Soundset Recordings label\, performances of concerti by Mozart and Schumann\, and more than a dozen speaking and teaching engagements in the United States and Asia. \nSlominski earned three degrees from the Eastman School of Music by age 21\, and was unanimously nominated for the Jerald R. Graue Musicology Fellowship and the Eastman Performer’s Certificate; his first professorship followed at age 23. He has held faculty positions as a pianist and music theorist at the Eastman School of Music\, the Sunderman Conservatory at Gettysburg College\, and Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the founding director of Classical Music on the Spot (an institute for eighteenth-century improvisation)\, a co-founder of the San Francisco International Piano Festival\, a founding faculty member of the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival at the University of South Florida\, and an Assistant Professor of Music at Linfield College. He earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music. Slominski is a New Piano Collective artist.[/expand]\nProgram Description: The composer and pianist Robert Schumann wrote in 1848 that\,[expand title=”Read More” swaptitle=” “]“You must get to the point that you can hear music from the page. … A perfect musician should be able to picture a piece\, at first hearing…as though he had the score in front of him.” This workshop\, facilitated by Dr. Slominski (former theory and aural skills faculty at the Eastman School of Music)\, opens a conversation about teaching and learning through a nuanced aural curriculum. Skills discussed include sight-singing\, solfege and solmization\, dictation\, playing by ear\, improvisation\, and more.
URL:https://oregonmta.org/event/grant-event-acquiring-aural-skills-listening-deeply/
LOCATION:Virtual/Online
CATEGORIES:District Grant Event,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Rosanne Smith":MAILTO:rosannecs@aol.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T120000
DTSTAMP:20260606T183442
CREATED:20210314T202055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210314T202210Z
UID:5457-1619254800-1619265600@oregonmta.org
SUMMARY:Grant Event - Integrative Alexander Technique Master Class
DESCRIPTION:This event will also be presented virtually. For access please contact Susan Todd.\nPresenting District: Rogue Valley\nPresenter: Dr. Matt Goodrich [expand title=”Read Presenter Bio” swaptitle=” “]Dr. Matt Goodrich is a native of Syracuse\, NY\, and a graduate of Oberlin College\nConservatory\, where he studied with Julian Martin. He earned his DMA from the University of Washington under the direction of Robin McCabe. His dissertation\, entitled Ricardo Viñes and Les Apaches\, explored the life and talents of one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic performers. He continues to perform Viñes-related solo- and duo-piano repertoire.\nGoodrich was national finalist in the Music Teachers National Association (Young Artists Division) and Young Keyboard Artist Association competitions. He has performed extensively on the West Coast\, including a headline recital for the Seattle Spring Contemporary Music Festival and a Washington State debut tour\, and has appeared as soloist with the Syracuse Symphony\, University of Washington Symphony\, UW Wind Ensemble\, Victoria Festival Orchestra\, Willamette Valley Symphony\, and Seattle Thalia Symphony.\nAn active chamber music and theatrical performer\, Goodrich was featured in the inaugural concert of the Auburn Symphony Chamber Series and performs frequently with diverse performing groups such as Expanse Ensemble\, Pacific Northwest Ballet\, Harrington-Goodrich Duo\, Lucia Neare’s Theatrical Wonders\, and Northwest Boychoir. He spent 2016 on the road with the Broadway national tour of If/Then and has been an Oregon Shakespeare Festival company member for six seasons. He has earned Alexander Technique International Teaching Certification and is currently Instructor of Piano at Southern Oregon University. He resides in Ashland\, OR.[/expand]\nProgram Description: Dr. Goodrich will work with the performers[expand title=”Read More” swaptitle=” “]using the basic principles of the Alexander Technique\, a unique and practical learning process. The student and observers will be given tools to analyze and think constructively about whole-self coordination as well as the efficient sequence of thought and movement needed to play an instrument or sing.[/expand]
URL:https://oregonmta.org/event/grant-event-integrative-alexander-technique-master-class/
LOCATION:Grace Lutheran Church – Ashland\, 660 Frances Ln\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520
CATEGORIES:District Grant Event,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Margie Daly":MAILTO:masters.music@hotmail.com
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR