2022 Colorado Music Educators Association Conference
Thursday, January 27, 2022
CMEA Opening Session, Keynote, and Honor Awards Ceremony
CMEA President Kevin Beaber and CMEA President-elect Cynthia Eversole welcome all to the 2022 conference and annual meeting of the membership. Enjoy a keynote address presented by Omar Thomas, and celebrate the accomplishments of our CMEA Honor Award Recipients from 2021 and 2022.
Rocky Mountain High School - Rocky Mountain Winds
Presider - Craig Woodall, Rocky Mountain High School Principal
Concert Host - Peter Toews, IMC Chair
Empowered Listening: Turning Accurate into Artistic
How can you and your students elevate your performances from accurate to artistic? This session seeks to answer this relevant and vital question by providing alternative strategies that will enhance your listening skills and empower your students to engage with the rehearsal process. We will explore new methods to create your personal aural image and heighten your expectation for student performance. By using examples from a variety of scores, we will examine how to quickly process and study the printed score to make informed decisions that will determine your performance expectation. Most importantly, we will explore ways to energize your rehearsals and empower your students’ listening. It will be our goal to turn ensemble rehearsals into exciting and creative spaces where students take risks, explore the unknown, and become collaborators in the artistic pursuit.
Teaching Guitar: Classical Technique, Modern Approach
Would you like to build a school guitar class with the scholastic integrity and ensemble chops of a great band or orchestra program? This clinic will focus on ways to explore culturally diverse repertoire from a foundation of music literacy and classical technique. Music educators who teach guitar but aren’t yet confident players and those who have recently been assigned or would like to begin a guitar class will find this session particularly helpful. The clinician will demonstrate and discuss effective ways to teach medium to large groups of students how to play guitar with ergonomic technique and to avoid the negative habits that often befall beginning students. He will also explore tactics for getting students to read music and play as an ensemble from the very beginning of their guitar-playing experience. Ultimately, we want students to have an engaging and enriching experience on this most accessible instrument.
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Friday, January 28, 2022
CBA Marching Moving into 2022
This session will be a review of the successful 2021 CBA marching season as well as a preview of the 2022 season. Â Topics from the December 2021 Marching Affairs meeting will be presented in an effort to inform directors as they begin preparation for 2022 programming.
There's an APP for That!
Claire Hudkins
Western Oregon University, Director of Vocal Studies & NTT Assistant Professor of MusicOver the past year, whether we have wanted to or not, we have all become far more aware of different apps that we can use with our students for enhancing music learning inside and outside of the classroom. There are literally apps for everything. While there are thousands of apps available, it is easy to get into the weeds looking for apps that are pedagogically sound, useful, cost efficient, and accessible for students from pre-K through college. This session will explore many of the APPs available to music educators using both traditional computers, tablets/iPads, Chromebooks, and smartphones. Many of the APPs are free, readily available, and can inspire your students both in and outside of the classroom!
Including Those We Serve - Engaging Students In Their Success
At the heart of every program are the students - we do what we do in schools for their benefit. But, as in every subject, often the process of music education is done to our students and not with them. In this session ideas will be shared on involving students in the conversations and decisions that shape our programs, from the culture and inclusion of our classrooms, to individual and group growth, excellence, and success.
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Just Tell Me What I Need to Know! - 4 Things to Make Your Band Sound Better, Guaranteed!
John Pasquale
University of Michigan, Donald R. Shepherd Associate Professor of Conducting, Director of the University of Michigan Marching and Athletic Bands, Associate Director of University BandsCentury Middle School - Comet Jazz Ensemble
This performance is limited to 75 registered attendees, due to Health & Safety Protocols. Be sure to select "attending" (or click the + symbol) for this session to ensure your spot! Note: Additional seating will be made available on a first-come-first-serve basis after the start time of the session.
Presider - Dave Wiske, retired teacher from Adams 12 District
Concert Host - Michelle Ewer, Tri-M Chair
The Band Director’s Bag of Tricks: How to Make Your Clarinet Section Sound Bigger and Better
This session will introduce practical and efficient approaches to help your clarinet players sound better immediately, regardless of age or skill level. You will gain the tools to provide incoming band students with a successful instrument tryout experience on the clarinet, and the knowledge to set them up for success in their early years of clarinet playing. I will also discuss what judges look and listen for in honor band auditions and demonstrate methods to help students get over the break, have greater overall technical facility, and develop good tone in the altissimo register.
Andrew Holcombe, session presider
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University of Colorado at Boulder - Wind Symphony
Presider - John Davis, University of Colorado at Boulder Dean of the College of Music
Concert Host - Tom Chapman, IMC District 5 Representative
Mark Dorn will receive his 25-year Recognition Award during this concert.
Saturday, January 29, 2022
Music Ensemble: Inside and Out How to for music clarity in your ensemble
John Pasquale
University of Michigan, Donald R. Shepherd Associate Professor of Conducting, Director of the University of Michigan Marching and Athletic Bands, Associate Director of University Bands
Cheyenne Mountain High School Symphonic Band
Presider - Carrie Brenner, Cheyenne Mountain High School Principal
Concert Host - Tom Chapman, IMC District 5 Representative