East Portland District Meeting
Masterclass and Joint District Meeting with West Portland
Presenter: Dr. Oksana Ezhokina
Location: Portland State University, Lincoln Hall, LH75
Masterclass and Joint District Meeting with West Portland
Presenter: Dr. Oksana Ezhokina
Location: Portland State University, Lincoln Hall, LH75
Spring Social
Derek Chiu: Unlocking Performance Potential
Robin Ziari: “Composition Festival”
Location: Kristy Moore Studio
Dianne Davies: “Making Syllabus Relevant”
This will be an online virtual meeting.
Winter Social
Dr. Thomas Otten, NCTM: “Etudes – They’re Good For You!”
Dr. Steve Lewis, NCTM—"Diversity and Anti-Racism in Piano Teaching: How to Navigate Historical Racial, Gender, and National Disparities in the 21st Century World"
Location: Mt. Hood Community College, 26000 SE Stark St, Gresham, OR 97030. Choir Room, Room #2138.
Liz Willis “Using the OMTA Syllabus for Every Student”
Peter Mack, Pianist and MTNA President Elect
Masterclass
Deborah Cleaver, Pianist
The Taubman Approach
Musicians utilizing the Taubman approach can improve technique, prevent fatigue and injury, and maximize their ability to express music.
Dr. Scott Price, Professor of Music
Autism and Piano Study: Inside the Lesson
Join Dr. Scott Price as he shares the work of his students who are special learners and the creative music-making they are able to achieve through adaptive pedagogy. This workshop will include video demonstrations of students at work in the studio lesson, and in recital performances. Techniques in adaptive pedagogy will be discussed and questions are welcomed.
Location: *virtual*; see email for zoom link
Linda Scott, Piano Technician
Understanding Your Piano Part 2: What makes for a comfortable touch? The highly anticipated follow up to Linda Scott's wonderful presentation she gave back in January of 2022.
East Portland & Clark County December Social will be held at the home of Patti Duthie.
Yuki Bowman and Christian Cutul, Architects
Making Space for Sound
This presentation will examine the architectural considerations that go into designing spaces for sound using two recent case study projects. We’ll not only share some of the technical aspects of how acoustics can be calibrated through volume and material; we’ll also consider how non-auditory perception can influence a space’s ‘sense of sound.’
Competitive and non-competitive categories. State recital end of November/beginning of December.
Dr. Tian Christina Zhao, Research Professor
Music & Baby Brains: What’s Really Going On?
The brain uses closely related mechanisms for processing music and speech. In our research lab, we study infants and have already seen these close connections in the youngest brains. Dr. Zhao will talk about these mechanisms and how music has implications for language acquisition for babies.
Toby Koenigsberg, Jazz Piano Professor
A New Jazz Piano Syllabus That Any Teacher Can Use!
OMTA has an updated, accessible Jazz Syllabus curriculum, written by University of Oregon jazz piano professor Toby Koenigsberg.
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