NYU/KONY Summer Workshop

You're invited to join the Kodaly Chapter for their last event of the year!  An excellent workshop followed by a reception. 

 

New York University
The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions
Kodály Summer Institute 2008
Celebrating the 20th Summer of Kodály Studies at New York University
Endorsed by the Organization of American Kodály Educators

Kodály Summer Institute 2008
Annual Lecture
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
5:00–7:00 p.m.
NYU Frederick Loewe Theater
35 West 4th Street (between Washington Square East and Greene Street)
New York City

Institute Attendees: No Charge

KONY Members: $20

Students: $5

 

TAKING PARTS: MATERIALS AND PEDAGOGY FOR PART-WORK IN THE KODÁLY-BASED CLASSROOM

NYU Kodály 2008 offers a summertime presentation for its students brought together with members of the Kodály Organization of New York—a time for the new and the experienced to learn and share together. This summer focuses on engaging part-work strategies using attractive materials, including treatments using body idiophones, spoken chants, conducting, ostinatos, vocal and instrumental chording and improvisation, canon, and movement. Materials will be drawn from both Kodály core repertory and from traditional narrative songs. Pedagogy will be designed for everyone—from basic techniques to more skilled use of simultaneity in music making. "Taking Parts" will empower participants to explore new ideas for developing musicianship for elementary and secondary students in hearing and performing parts in music.

 

Esther Liu Harris, Presenter
Esther Liu Harris has completed a Bachelor of Music in Music Education with choral and piano emphasis at San Francisco State University (cum laude) and a Master of Music in Music Education with Kodály emphasis from Holy Names University in Oakland, California. Currently she is a candidate studying toward the degree Doctor of Education, Music and Music Education program, Teachers College, Columbia University. Esther Liu Harris has taught a Kodály based music curriculum K-5 at The Spence School in Manhattan and a Kodály and Orff-based curriculum at the Trevor Day School in Manhattan. She has served as a music teacher at the Rhinelander Children's Center, Children's Aid Society, New York City. In these positions she has conduced various choral groups that have performed regularly in children's festivals and various venues in the New York area. University teaching includes work as a supervisor/adjunct professor for student teachers, New York University 2006–2007, a teacher/mentor for student teachers, New York University 1999–2002, and a cooperating teacher/mentor for Teachers College, Columbia University 2008. She currently serves as Director of Choral Music, middle and upper school, Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, New York. She recently completed a successful tour to Vienna and Prague with the Packer Collegiate Institute High School Chorus. Fall 2004 she was appointed conductor of two youth choruses at the Juilliard School of Music, Preparatory Division, where she soon will begin a fifth year.

 

Giocille Shaw, Presenter
Giocille Shaw has completed two degrees in Piano Performance at the Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, Maryland—Bachelor of Music and Master of Music. She has completed doctoral studies in Music Education, Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University. In 1996 she completed Kodály certification at the Kodály Summer Institute at New York University. Giocille Shaw has served as piano instructor, ensemble coach, and accompanist at the Stecher-Horowitz School, Cedarhurst, New York, the Mustard Seed School, Hoboken, New Jersey, and the Berkeley-Carroll School, Brooklyn, New York. She has taught elementary music and conducted choruses at The Spence School, New York City, St. Ann's School, Brooklyn, New York, Tuxedo Park School, Tuxedo Park, New York, and Sacred Heart School, Suffern, New York. She currently teaches elementary music and conducts choruses at the Brookside School, Ossining Public Schools, Ossining, New York. Giocille Shaw serves on the Board of the Kodály Organization of New York for whom she appeared as a clinician for the Fall Conference 2005.