Dates:听Mon/Tues, June 23鈥�24, 2025
Early Bird Registration (ends June 1)
In-Person/Virtual: $109
Virtual Only: $99
Student: $25
Lunch: $17
Regular Registration (June 2-June 16)
In-Person/Virtual: $129
Virtual Only: $119
Student: $25
Lunch: $17
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(To register after the deadline, please contact Dr. Jacob Ertl, jertl2@naz.edu
Call for Masterclass Participants:听Submission Form
1:00-2:30 ~ Go Home & Practice!
It鈥檚 not enough to say, Go Home & Practice! How can we make practicing stimulating and enjoyable? What will motivate our students to take responsibility for practicing effectively? Examples at the piano of down-to-earth tips鈥攚hat works best, how, when and why鈥擳o include Q&A from Piano Practice Strategies video, with fielded questions ahead of time.
2:30-2:45 ~ Break
2:45-4:00 ~ Technique Without Tears
We need technique, we want technique, but we hate to practice technique鈥nless we find a technique regimen that piques our interest, that motivates us, that even makes practicing technique enjoyable. Presenting a curriculum of studies and exercises for all levels is adaptable to any teacher鈥檚 philosophy, along with strategies that make it easier to teach and learn everything from scale fingerings to chromatic double thirds.
4:00-4:15 - Break
4:15-5:30 -听2 Clicks Away: Piano Music of Our Time
Unveils a curated collection of 200 online performances of modern music by composers with diverse ethnic and national backgrounds and widely varying styles. Discover how easily teachers and students can explore this new world of sound.听听
9:30-10:45 ~ Sight-Reading For Life听
No other skill matters more to the future musical life of our students. But sight-reading is rarely No. 1 on a teacher鈥檚 list of Must-Cover lesson topics. My solution, and the topic of this presentation: a studio sight-reading system that requires minimal administration and yields maximum results.听
10:45 -11:00 ~ Break
11:00-12:00 ~ Lessons from the Mat: How Yoga Can Inform Breath and Movement at the Piano
Guest Clinician, Kevin Nitsch
12:00-1:15 ~ Lunch
1:15-2:30 ~听Mapping Music: The Road to Understanding
Map every new piece that you plan to study seriously. Some mapping tasks are simple and take only a few minutes, others take longer. But if you set aside 30 or 40 minutes to map a new piece the knowledge you gain from that will streamline your practicing, shorten the time it takes to learn the piece, and even lay the groundwork for memorization.
2:30-2:45 ~ Break
2:45-3:15 ~ Q & A Grab Bag
Including questions from What I Wish I Knew video - questions fielded ahead of time
3:15-3:30 ~ Break
3:30-5:00 ~听Masterclass with Students from the Community
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2019: Ingrid Clarfield
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2017: Jeanine Jacobson
2016:听Forrest Kinney
2015: Wendy Stevens
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听Dr. Jacob Ertl,听jertl2@naz.edu