2350 Canyon Drive
Costa Mesa
CA
Sponsored by the Association for Waldorf Music Education
Waldorf School of Orange County
July 7-12, 2019
For music teachers, early childhood and class teachers, parents, administrators—all are welcome!
~ The Journey of Waldorf Music Education ~
Meeting the challenges of both new and experienced teachers
In its 19th year, the 2019 Waldorf Summer Music Conference will offer a journey through the grades and high school, looking more closely at what stands behind the music curriculum. Bringing ‘the right thing at the right time’ is the hallmark of Waldorf education, and the music curriculum reflects this profound pedagogy.
Our work together will explore the what, when, how, and why of what we do, and how it meets each stage of the child’s development. Included in this spectrum will be hands-on experience with the instruments we use in our curriculum, a deeper look at Rudolf Steiner’s indications for bringing music to children, alternatives to traditional ensemble work, the changing voice, and more! There will also be dedicated sessions to address the questions, concerns, and special interests of both new and experienced teachers. For our own development as well as for enhancing and supporting our work in the classroom, our days will be rounded out with Werbeck vocal exercises and choral work in addition to movement and games.
What to bring:
Since we will be including hands-on instrumental work, we ask participants to bring Choroi interval flutes, pentatonic flutes, diatonic/C-flutes, recorders of any voicing, kinderharps, or bordun lyres, if possible. We will also have some instruments available to borrow at the school, but please bring whatever you have, and extras to share, if possible!
On Thursday evening, July 11th, we will have our traditional music sharing for the larger community, and everyone is welcome to attend! For this occasion, participants are invited to bring any and all instruments to make music to share with each other as well as extra copies of sheet music if you would like to prepare something with others.
This year’s facilitators:
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 teaches courses in the mood of the fifth and has developed a curriculum for working with the pentatonic children’s lyre for Grades 1-3 as well as for an applied music course for Grades 7/8. In addition to her work in the U.S., she also gives a variety of music courses and workshops in South America and in China. Sheila serves as president of the Lyre Association of North America and has trainings in both instrumental and vocal anthroposophic music therapy. She is the author of a number of articles on music and the developing child and is currently editing several translations of related publications in English. She has been a carrying member of AWME for the last 10 years.
Andrea Lyman has been a Waldorf music teacher since 1992, has taught music courses at Sunbridge College, Waldorf Institute of Southern California, and Sound Circle Center. She 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 and offering online mentoring for individuals around the world, Andrea also gives courses and workshops in South America, China, Philippines and Malaysia. She has authored several articles on the Waldorf music curriculum and has served as president of AWME since its inception in 2001.
Conference Fee:
$455 for AWME members ($40 discount!)
$455 for non-members before April 30th; $495 thereafter
For more questions or information, please contact Andrea Lyman.
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We regret to inform you that we did not receive our minimum number of registrations by neither the first nor extended deadlines. We have certain costs involved for any conference, and must set a minimum number of participants to make it viable. As a result, we will not be going forward with our AWME music conference this summer.
We will consequently refund your conference registration payment in full, intending to return the funds to you on Wednesday (May 29). If there is an issue or some other unforeseen need, we will contact you. If you registered—but did not yet make payment—we cannot count this to be a completed registration, nor can we include into our minimum number count those who have said they hoped to register sometime soon.
Please know that much consideration will go into re-imagining and redesigning of both our conference, and the way we get out the notifications. We hope you will again consider us next year in 2020, when we plan to have the next AWME conference. Hopefully, many more colleagues will attend and make for a richer and more rewarding conference!