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Here is what some of our students and teachers had to say about their first workshop week experience:

 

"It is a great opportunity for the 600 students involved in the classes to benefit from learning from other teachers and their peers over the course of the week."

 

"I personally really liked workshop week and enjoyed leading and participating in six classes with six different teachers. It was great to see a strong level of playing within the department."

 

"Courtney came out BRIMMING. She loved it and declared, "This has been the best day!" She had been nervous (hadn't mentioned that to me) before she went in. She loved (LOVED, I heard about it again this morning) the French song that a little girl played. (Courtney is obsessed with Paris, of late.) AND, another boy had "an electric guitar, and let me plug into his amplitude and play!" After her long dissertation on the hot/cold cockroach music game - which was "the best game ever" and how "totally cool the room was with red fuzzy walls" I would say - a great success! Courtney is looking forward to the next workshop week."

 

"I just wanted to let you know how much Kate enjoyed the workshop yesterday. She even went on to say she wished for every lesson to be like that! Her smile, skip in her step and positive feedback was something I thought you would enjoy hearing about as it was the 1st Workshop week."

 

"I want to thank you for today's group class. Mert told me that it was one of the best classes ever. He also enjoyed the 'finding the composers' part of the lesson. When we were in the car he told me that he really wants to learn a Beethoven piece when he is good enough."

 

 

 

2nd Annual Workshop Week

April 30 - May 5, 2012

voice coaching

For the first time in 2011 the entire Conservatory participated in a week of workshops designed to enhance the private lesson experience.

1. Community Building: Students and Faculty from many studios have a chance to meet and share their talents in a warm and welcoming environment, and to see that all of us share the same challenges and rewards of musical study.

2. Evaluation: Written evaluations from faculty members other than their own teachers offer a different opinion of the student’s strengths and weaknesses, and offer a chance to reinforce concepts of musicality and technique while providing a written record that can be used to guide further progress for the remainder of the semester.

3. Performance: Workshop Week provides yet another opportunity to motivate and inspire students to strive for excellence not just at recital time, but also in the middle of the semester.

4. How will it work? Faculty will help students prepare a short piece to perform for a small group of peers and two faculty members. One faculty member will facilitate the group while the other writes encouraging feedback on the performance. Each one hour workshop will conclude with an activity designed to engage the students as a group. The workshops will be scheduled on your regular lesson day and will take the place of that day’s lesson. Students not able to attend at their assigned time will be given the opportunity to sign up for another session which works for them. Following feedback from our adult student population, instead of WSW adult students will have their regular private lesson at a time agreed upon mutually by the instructor and student either that week or later in the semester.

To learn more: Workshop Week: Learning Outside of the Private Lesson Studio

We look forward to a week of learning from each other and making music together.

Questions or comments should be directed to Phil Rush, Workshop Week Coordinator, at:
p.rush@sscmusic.org or (781) 749-7565 ext.49