The 16th Annual Summer Music Conference (2 Sessions!)

~ Waldorf Music Pedagogy Intensives ~

Sponsored by the Association for Waldorf Music Education

In their 16th year, the 2015 annual Waldorf Music Conference will will offer something different! This summer, based on several years of feedback and surveys by our members and conference attendees, we plan to offer two shorter intensives, each with a more specific focus relevant to certain stages of development and the accompanying curriculum.

Each morning, we will focus on instrumental work, both on proficiency and implementation in the classroom as well as on ensemble work. In the afternoons, we will turn to broader topics, including pedagogy and curriculum, alternatives to traditional ensemble work, group discussion on what it means to be a Waldorf music teacher, and the inner life of the teacher. There will also be daily opportunities for questions and answers in a forum setting. Our days will be rounded out with both movement and Werbeck singing – for our own development as well as for enhancing and supporting our work in the classroom.

Since we will be including hands-on instrumental work, we ask that you bring Choroi interval flutes, pentatonic flutes, diatonic or C-flutes, recorders of any voicing, kinder-harps or bordun lyres, and your orchestral instrument (if you play or teach it). We will also have instruments available to borrow at the school, so bring whatever you can (and extras to share, if possible).

This year’s facilitators:

• Sheila Johns – Sheila Johns taught music for 14 years at the Washington Waldorf School in Bethesda, Maryland where she served in a variety of capacities, including mentoring other music teachers. She has taught courses in the Mood of the Fifth and developed a curriculum for working with the pentatonic kinderharp for grades 1-3 as well as for an applied music course for grades 7-8. She has trainings in both instrumental and vocal anthroposophic music therapy and has been a carrying member of AWME for the last 7 years.
• Andrea Lyman – Andrea Lyman has been a Waldorf music teacher since 1992, has taught music courses at Sunbridge College, and has been an adjunct faculty member of the West Coast Institute in Vancouver, BC since 2011. In addition to evaluating and mentoring Waldorf music teachers and faculties throughout North America, she has authored several articles on the Waldorf music curriculum and has served as President of AWME since its inception in 2001.
• Monika Sutherland – Monika Sutherland has been a Waldorf music teacher for the past 15 years. Currently she is Director of Music at Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School in Viroqua, WI where she leads a full choral, instrumental, and general music program. In addition to being a professional cellist, she is an adjunct faculty member in the Great Lakes Waldorf Institute Teacher Training Program and has also taught courses at Sunbridge College.
• Cate Decker – Cate Decker, M.Ed, is a movement therapist, a developmental specialist, and a Level III Spacial Dynamics Practitioner. Cate has worked extensively with musicians in recent years, exploring the element of space and working with specific ways to apply principals of Spacial Dynamics to music making situations through these accessible, archetypal exercises.

NOTE: The conference intensives will begin at 5:30pm on the first evening with registration, a simple shared meal (provided), and our official opening. The conference will end in the evening of the third full day.

Conference Intensive Fees

• Session 1 (July 21-24): Early Childhood–Grade 5 → $285 for AWME members, $325 for non-members
  
• Session 2 (July 25-28): Grade 4–High School → $285 for AWME members, $325 for non-members

OR

• Both (July 21-28): Session 1 + Session 2 → $495 for AWME members, $535 for non-members

(registration fees exclude housing, meals, or transportation)

Morning and afternoon light snacks will be provided each day during the conferences. Catered lunches and some suppers will be available for purchase.

For information on housing, meals, or transportation, please contact Tamara Meinecke.

For more questions or information, please contact Andrea Lyman.

NOTE: We have reached our required minimum of participants to support the both sessions! Consequently, the deadline has been extended from May 15th to June 30th. We are happy to accept registrations for both sessions until then, so please enroll!

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Register now! – Deadline for registration and payment: July 13, 2015