Really looking forward to the Metropolis Ensemble’s Youth Works concert. They’ll be performing 5 of our YCIW composers pieces...

It has been fascinating to examine my student’s Edcanvases as they complete the research on their chosen musical style....

What do Sonata Form, Reggae, Korean Folk Music, the Blues, Irish Folk Music, Grease, Funk bass lines, Gamelan, The...

  Music is what feelings sound like   This famous anonymous quote can easily be dismissed as idealistic...

One of the best parts of my teaching year is when I put together the program for one of...

On Nov. 13th our young composers had an opportunity to workshop their compositions with our artists-in-residence the Metropolis Ensemble for...

It has been an action packed fall as 80 of my composition students have been busily working on their...

We are so happy to have Brad Balliett join our team of composer mentors!  In addition to being a...

  If you haven’t yet heard of VJ Manzo and his suite of EAMIR programs, you are in for...

I’ve spent the last month working on writing an interactive iBook for my Young Composers curriculum. It has been...

This article by Shelly Wright, Flipping Bloom’s Taxonomy really sums up my approach to how I teach composition to my students at LREI....