2018-2019 Pedagogical Project
FKHS Band Performance 2018
I NEED HELP! Partnering with your Local Community College Music Educators as a Resource.
Schools in rural areas of Kansas are struggling to maintain quality music programs. Meanwhile, community college music educators are constantly recruiting to maintain their programs, asking secondary music educators to give up their rehearsal time to meet with their students. Secondary school music educators could benefit by instead partnering with their local community colleges. This can lead to mutually assured success, as it has for Field Kindley High School and Coffeyville Community College over the last two years.
This is a collaborative effort between myself and Brian Nagle of Field Kindley High School to demonstrate the benefits of working in conjunction with your local community college music educators. This is a clinic to be presented at the 2019 Kansas Music Educators Association (KsMEA) conference. The aim is to demonstrate how partnerships with community college music educators can not only help secondary education music programs grow and prosper, but also how these partnerships can lead to the growth of junior college music programs through the building and fostering of trust between the directors and students.
This approach has lead to substantial growth of the Coffeyville Community College music programs as well as the recent success for Field Kindley High School in recent competitions, which include outstanding ratings at their most recent concert and marching band competitions, as well as winning the award for most outstanding drum major in their category.
By building partnerships, we aim to demonstrate the positive effects they have and their impact on high school students and their experience in public school music programs.
Schools in rural areas of Kansas are struggling to maintain quality music programs. Meanwhile, community college music educators are constantly recruiting to maintain their programs, asking secondary music educators to give up their rehearsal time to meet with their students. Secondary school music educators could benefit by instead partnering with their local community colleges. This can lead to mutually assured success, as it has for Field Kindley High School and Coffeyville Community College over the last two years.
This is a collaborative effort between myself and Brian Nagle of Field Kindley High School to demonstrate the benefits of working in conjunction with your local community college music educators. This is a clinic to be presented at the 2019 Kansas Music Educators Association (KsMEA) conference. The aim is to demonstrate how partnerships with community college music educators can not only help secondary education music programs grow and prosper, but also how these partnerships can lead to the growth of junior college music programs through the building and fostering of trust between the directors and students.
This approach has lead to substantial growth of the Coffeyville Community College music programs as well as the recent success for Field Kindley High School in recent competitions, which include outstanding ratings at their most recent concert and marching band competitions, as well as winning the award for most outstanding drum major in their category.
By building partnerships, we aim to demonstrate the positive effects they have and their impact on high school students and their experience in public school music programs.
2017-2018 Performance Projects
Hari Om for Soprano Saxophone and electronicsThis was a collaboration with composer Jonathan Annis to bring forward a new piece for saxophone and electronic music connecting the possibilities of processed sounds with those of the live saxophonist using eastern influences. Since giving the world premiere performance at the North American Saxophone Alliance conference at the CCM in Cincinnati Ohio, Hari Om has been performed around United States, Canada, and will be performed at the 2018 World Saxophone Congress in Zagreb Croatia. I am beyond honored to have this piece written for me and it being shared with so many saxophonists across the world.
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After Hari Om premiere. Cincinnati Convervatory of Music, Cincinnati OH, March 2018.
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Fanfare for Wind Ensemble CommissionAfter working with composer Jonathan Annis on Hari Om, I asked him if he would be interested in composing a full band piece in dedication to both the Coffeyville Community College and Field Kindley High School Wind Ensembles for our joint concert this past Spring. He happily obliged and the result was an outstanding piece of music unlike any the students had performed before. This piece, along with Hari Om, will soon be available on the composer's website linked above.
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The combined CCC and FKHS wind ensembles under the direction of Brian Nagle. CCC Theater, Coffeyville KS, March 2018.
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