Welcome to New York State
O.C.M.E.A CONFERENCE DAY 2009
OCMEA Conference Day
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8:00-9:00 AM - Keynote
9:00-10:45 AM - Session 1
11:00-1:00 PM - Session 2
Monroe-Woodbury High School
155 Dunderberg Road
Central Valley, NY 10917
Directions to Monroe-Woodbury High School
Educational Directors
Michelle Monty & Ryan Walther
DIRECTIONS TO MONROE-WOODBURY HIGH SCHOOL
Take Rt. 17E to Exit 131. Turn left at light at end of exit ramp. Turn left at 1st light onto Nininger Road. Turn right onto Dunderburg Road. Monroe-Woodbury High School is on the right.
Take Rt. 32S into Central Valley. At the first light passed the Woodbury Commons, turn right onto Nininger Road. Turn right onto Dunderburg Road. Monroe-Woodbury High School is on the right.
Take NYS Thruway (I-87) to Exit 16 (Harriman). Immediately after toll booths, take the first exit. At light, go straight through onto Nininger Road. Turn right onto Dunderburg Road. Monroe-Woodbury High School is on the right
REGISTRATION FEES: OCMEA members - $40.00, non OCMEA members $45.00
Deadline: October 23rd
How do I register?
Request administrative approval to attend the conference. Submit paperwork for getting a purchase order.
Clip or tear off the registration form and mail to: Michelle Monty, Taft Elementary School, 20 Toleman Road, Washingtonville, NY 1099295 Jordan Lane, Middletown, NY 10940
Conference Day Registration Form 
Refreshments will be available throughout the day.
O.C.M.E.A. Conference Day 2009 Update
Keynote Address – “Even a Fool Knows you Can’t Touch the Stars…” - Dr. Peter Loel Boonshaft, Hofstra University
9:00 – 10:45 Session I "Motidispiration: Motivation, Discipline, and Inspiration" – Dr. Peter Loel Boonshaft, Hofstra University This session will offer suggestions to improve our ability to motivate and inspire our students in rehearsals, while providing a disciplined environment. By implementing these simple strategies we can make any rehearsal more enjoyable, productive, exciting, controlled, and educational. Useful for conductors of any level and type of ensemble. "Improving Rhythm and Intonation Skills of a String Orchestra" – Mr. Michael Martin, Haverford Township School District Do you want your students to correct their own intonation, perform with steady tempo, stay together, hear and react to harmonic changes, and play with a sense of style and phrasing? Learn new teaching techniques that will enhance any method book and help your students become independent musicians. Bring your instrument! "Everyone Succeeds: Meeting the Needs of all Students in the Music Room, Part I" – Mrs, Melissa Rozelle Reed, NYSSMA Classroom Music Chair/Hilton CSD IEP, LRE, IST, CSE….HELP!! A music educator/music therapist will present information on various disabilities, special education law, instrument modifications and classroom management. Come with questions! |
"Strategies for Mentoring Young Composers" – Dr. Daniel Deustch, NYSSMA Improvisation Chair
This session will demonstrate proven strategies for helping students of all levels to develop as composers and improvisers, with an emphasis on creative self-expression. The session will feature diverse examples of student work at various stages of development, and will offer specific troubleshooting suggestions for teachers. The strategies can be used in instrumental, vocal, general music, and theory classes. "Cuban and African Percussion for General Music, Chorus, and Band" – Mr. Benjamin Toth, Hartt School of Music Session topics will include Latin American percussion instruments used in popular music and Salsa contexts (congas, bongos, scraper, shakers, claves, cow-bell, etc.), as well as African percussion instruments used in folkloric settings (djembe, gankogui, axatse, etc.). The musical styles and playing techniques presented will prove useful whether you teach general music, chorus, or instrumental music. "Understanding the Voice: Building a Healthy Vocal Technique" – Ms. Christina Rohm, Opera Singer Learn to teach your singers to engage their bodies in healthy ways to produce natural, tension-free, and beautiful sounds. This seminar will focus on the anatomy of the vocal mechanism, posture, breathing, attacks, resonance, registration, projection, vowels, and articulation. Please come prepared to move and sing. 11:00-1:00 Session II "Teaching Music with a Purpose: 25 Things you Can do Tomorrow to Improve your Ensemble" - Dr. Peter Loel Boonshaft, Hofstra University This session offers 25 simple things you can do to improve the quality of your ensemble, make any rehearsal more productive and energize the power of your teaching. Useful for conductors of any level and type of ensemble. |
"Jump Right In Showcase" – Mr. Michael Martin, Haverford Township School District
Jump Right In is an innovative new series that will have your beginners playing musically right from the start! Based on the music learning theories of Edwin E. Gordon and many years of practical research, the lesson plans include a comprehensive sequence of listening, moving, singing, and developing proper technical skills. Students learn many songs by ear, learn to aurally understand tonal and rhythm structure, improvise, read, and write. The CD features performances by the artist-faculty of the Eastman School of Music and members of the Rochester Philharmonic and National Symphony Orchestras."Everyone Succeeds: Meeting the Needs of all Students in the Music Room, Part II" – Mrs. Melissa Rozelle Reed, NYSSMA Classroom Music Chair/ Hilton CSD Come learn how to create modifications and accommodations that will help all of your students succeed. Kid-tested examples will be used. "First Steps in Improvisation and Composition" – Dr. Daniel Deustch, NYSSMA Improvisation Chair Many teachers want to incorporate improvisation and composition into their curriculum but are not sure how to begin. In this workshop, an experienced composition teacher will demonstrate the process of teaching improvisation and composition from the very first steps. He will work with a group of young musicians whom he has never met before, and will help the students develop their own creative musical ideas as you watch and listen. "Mallet and Accessory Percussion for Music Educators" – Mr. Benjamin Toth, Hartt School of MusicThis clinic will focus on playing techniques used for the mallet-keyboard percussion instruments (marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel, vibraphone, and chimes), and their use in elementary through high school ensembles. It also will provide an introduction to the bass drum and cymbals, two of the most commonly utilized yet least often mastered percussion instruments. The session is designed to help you more effectively educate your percussionists in both ensemble and applied lesson settings, and will include both discussion and demonstrations.
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Dr. Peter Loel Boonshaft
Called “one of the most exciting and exhilarating voices in music education today,” Peter Loel Boonshaft has been invited to speak or conduct in every state in the nation and around the world. He holds Bachelor of Music (Summa Cum Laude), Master of Music Education in Conducting, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. Dr. Boonshaft was also awarded a Connecticut General Fellowship for study at the Kodály Musical Training Institute, from which he holds a Certificate. He is currently on the faculty of Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, where he is Professor of Music and Director of Bands. He is Conductor of the Hofstra University Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, professor of conducting and music education, and Director of the graduate wind conducting program. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Boonshaft was on the faculty of Moravian College and the University of Hartford. He was Founder and Music Director of the Pennsylvania Youth Honors Concert Band and the Connecticut Valley Youth Wind Ensemble. In addition, he held the post of Music Director and Conductor of the Metropolitan Wind Symphony of Boston.
Dr. Boonshaft is the author of the critically acclaimed best selling books Teaching Music with Passion and Teaching Music with Purpose published by Meredith Music Publications, distributed by Hal Leonard Corporation. Forthcoming books will be released in the summer of 2009 and 2010. He is also the author of Vaclav Nelhybel: His Life and Works, the only authorized biography of the composer, a contributing author of The Music Director’s Cookbook: Creative Recipes for a Successful Program, and articles for Instrumentalist Magazine, the National Band Association Journal, MENC's Teaching Music, and Band Director's Guide. In addition, he holds the post of Band/Wind Ensemble Editor for the School Music News. Dr. Boonshaft has been a consultant or recorded for Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Warner Brothers Publications, Southern Music Publishers, Kendor Music Publishers, Daehn Publications and C. Allen Music. Active as a proponent of new literature for concert band, he has commissioned and conducted over forty world premieres by such notable composers as Eric Ewazen, W. Francis McBeth, Johan de Meij, Fisher Tull, H. Owen Reed, Vaclav Nelhybel, David Gillingham, Philip Sparke, Sam Hazo, Andrew Boysen, Robert W. Smith, David Holsinger, Robert Washburn, Elliot Del Borgo, Herbert Deutsch, Ken Lampl, Robert Hawkins, Larry Lipkis, Ian McDougall, Rossano Galante, Reber Clark, Gregory Sanders, Roland Barrett and Jared Spears. Among the soloists who have appeared in performance with Dr. Boonshaft are John Marcellus, Maynard Ferguson, Harvey Phillips, Ed Shaughnessy, Lynn Klock, Don Butterfield, Dave Steinmeyer and the United States Air Force "Airmen of Note," Chester Schmitz, and the Vienna Schubert Trio.
BENJAMIN TOTH
Benjamin Toth, director of the percussion program at The Hartt School, University of Hartford, has presented concerts and recitals, radio and television broadcasts, master classes, and children’s programs throughout Europe and the United States, as well as in Brazil, Ghana, Hong Kong, Japan, and Trinidad. Toth’s varied musical interests are reflected in his performance credits, highlights of which include: the Percussion Group Cincinnati, Jovan Percussion Projekt, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia da Camera, Akron Symphony Orchestra, Goodspeed Opera House, Hartford Stage, Bushnell Theater, and the Jimmy Dorsey Band. His performance venues have included Ravinia, the Walker Arts Center, Carnegie Recital Hall, the first “Encontro Internacional de Percussao” (Sao Paulo, Brazil), the Fifth International Percussion Workshop (Poland), the 2000 June in Buffalo Festival (with composer Steve Reich), the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (Germany), the Lithuanian National Philharmonic concert series, the College Band Directors National Association national convention, Percussive Arts Society International Conventions (ten appearances, including four with composers: Herbert Brun, John Cage, David Macbride, and Nebojsa Zivkovic), and the 2000 Panorama (Trinidad National Steel Band Competition). He has recorded for the Albany, Arabesque, Bis, Centaur, GIA, Hartt, Innova, Musica Europea, Naxos, TNC and Yesa labels, having appeared on seventeen recordings. Benjamin Toth is a Yamaha performing artist. He uses mallets made by Innovative Percussion, and Zildjian cymbals.
MELISSA ROZELLE REED
Melissa received a Master of Science in Education and a Bachelor of Music in music education and music therapy from Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. Melissa has worked extensively with students with special needs in the music classroom and is a sought after clinician on this topic. She has recently presented for the National American Orff Schulwerk Conference, New York State School Music Association Conference, New York State Early Childhood Music Conference, MENC Eastern Division Conference, and the Northern Lights American Orff-Schulwerk Association. An article by Rozelle Reed titled “Everyone Succeeds: Meeting the Needs of All Students in the Music Room” was recently published in the Collegiate MENC online journal. Melissa is currently a music educator and music therapist for the Hilton Central School District.
CHRISTINA ROHM
Dr. Daniel Deutsch
Dr. Daniel Deutsch has been director of the nationally recognized Student Composition Program in the Three Village Central School District in Stony Brook, New York since 1990. As the chairperson of the New York State School Music Association Composition/Improvisation Committee since 1999, he has helped to spearhead a major initiative in the field of composition and improvisation in New York State. A leader in composition pedagogy, he frequently presents clinics on teaching composition at educational institutions and at music education conferences. He studied music at Yale University (BA magna cum laude), Stony Brook University (MA), and Columbia University (DMA). His awards include the National Endowment for the Arts Composers Fellowship Grant, grants from Meet The Composer, Columbia University's Boris and Eda Rapaport Composition Prize, and the Harvard Club of Long Island Distinguished Teacher Award.
Mr. Michael E. Martin
Michael E. Martin teaches instrumental music (strings, winds, and percussion) at the elementary and middle school levels in the School District of Haverford Township in Havertown, PA. His students have performed at Pennsylvania Music Educators Conferences, MENC Eastern Division Conference, and at the National Music Clinic. In 1992 he was awarded a Citation of Excellence from P.M.E.A. for his innovative teaching and curriculum. Mr. Martin has been a Visiting Lecturer in Music Education at Michigan State University, Rowan University, Temple University, The University of Texas at Arlington, Duquesne University, The University of South Carolina, The University at Buffalo, The University of Delaware, and at the Music Academy of St. Cecilia in Lisbon, Portugal. He is a frequent presenter at state and national music educators’ conferences.
Mr. Martin is author of the Parents’ Guide for Jump Right In: The Instrumental Series, is co-author of Jump Right In: The Instrumental Series-for Strings (Revised Edition), and is a co-author in The Development and Practical Application of Music Learning Theory, published by GIA. He is past president of the Gordon Institute for Music Learning and has been a Certified Teacher Trainer for the Gordon Institute since 1993. He is also past-president of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the National School Orchestra Association. Mr. Martin has performed professionally on string bass, bass guitar, tuba, and voice. Mr. Martin holds a B. S. in music education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a M. M. in music education from West Chester University. He holds further graduate credits from New England Conservatory, Vander Cook College of Music, Drexel University, and Temple University.
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