Banding Together: A Music Education Podcast: Recent Episodes
Hosted by Joe Sugrue - Music Teacher and Graduate Student at the University of Washington
Kelly Clingan is the Education Director of Seattle Jazz Ed, a non-profit music school in Seattle, WA. Between 2008 and 2016, Kelly was the Director of Concert Bands and Jazz at Washington Middle School.
In this episode, Kelly and I discuss teaching Beginning Band through a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access (DEIA) lens, the gendering of instruments, improvisation and jazz education, creative performance opportunities aside from the traditional concert, and more!
Moc Escobedo is the Director of Concert and Jazz Bands at Eckstein Middle School in Seattle, WA. Moc has been teaching in Seattle Public Schools for over 30 years, and is a 2018 winner of Downbeat Magazine's Jazz Education Achievement Award.
In this episode, Moc shares his ideas about tone production and technique development, the importance of playing music outside of band class--both in school and outside of school--improvisation and jazz education, instrument and setup knowledge, audiation, the sense of community that band can provide to our students, and more!
Eric Jimenez is the Assistant Director of Bands at Praire View A&M University in Praire View, Texas. He has revitalized several music programs throughout the Houston Independent School District and is also co-host of the urban music education podcast, "The Score."
In this episode Eric and I discuss "Beginning Band" not always meaning elementary/middle school students, audiation and thinking musically, classroom and rehearsal expectations, challenging the notion that some rehearsal techniques can only be used in some ensembles, informal music learning and Culturally Responsive/Sustaining Teaching, and more!
Taina Lorenz is the current Music Director for the Cosmopolitan Music Society in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Most of her teaching career has been spent teaching Middle School band in Edmonton, and she is also a recent graduate of the UW Music Education Doctoral program.
In this episode Taina shares her thoughts on not confusing complexity with beauty, avoiding getting sucked into B flat concert, the importance of ear training, judiciously choosing our repertoire, method books--should we use them at all?--and more!