Thank you for your consideration in reference to the above opportunity. I am an educator, recording artist, songwriter, composer and singer with an extensive history in the music business. With ten years’ experience teaching on the college level, I am also a proficient voice teacher and musical director. At La Guardia Community College/CUNY I taught voice and chorus in multiple musical styles; musical theatre, pop, jazz, and original material. My students came from some of the worst schools in the NYC school district. Voice lessons, learning rhythm, notation and harmony, and the discipline required in music was opposite to their way of understanding. However, by the time we were finished with the semester, all of my students were practicing and
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I took my students all over the school with a rolling PA system to present pop up concerts. These were wildly successful outings and filled my students with tremendous confidence and motivation. As preparation, I conducted acting exercises and lyric analysis based on my own training, which helped the students understand the subtext in each lyric.
For the music history classes, I took my LaGuardia students to the opera and the symphony in NYC. These were truly amazing outings and the students were grateful. Each student was required to write a paper on a musical concert and my undergraduate training assisted me. Each student was given the opportunity to present two drafts before the final submission. Each student would sit with me while I discussed their papers and leave with a much greater understanding of how to create better work.
I believe I would contribute so much to Uncommon Schools, and I certainly would love the opportunity to chat with you about my ideas. Below are links from Soundcloud, which illustrate various aspects of my writing and
I took my students all over the school with a rolling PA system to present pop up concerts. These were wildly successful outings and filled my students with tremendous confidence and motivation. As preparation, I conducted acting exercises and lyric analysis based on my own training, which helped the students understand the subtext in each lyric.
For the music history classes, I took my LaGuardia students to the opera and the symphony in NYC. These were truly amazing outings and the students were grateful. Each student was required to write a paper on a musical concert and my undergraduate training assisted me. Each student was given the opportunity to present two drafts before the final submission. Each student would sit with me while I discussed their papers and leave with a much greater understanding of how to create better work.
I believe I would contribute so much to Uncommon Schools, and I certainly would love the opportunity to chat with you about my ideas. Below are links from Soundcloud, which illustrate various aspects of my writing and