Patrick Ware Topic TBA

Patrick is a Boston native and began his composition studies at Westfield State College where he earned the Bachelor of Arts degree in Music. After receiving his MSEd from Radford University, he completed his Orff-Schulwerk Certification and movement apprenticeship at George Mason University. Patrick is currently a doctoral candidate at the Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University. Along with his K-5 general music, and choral duties in Prince William County Public Schools, Prince William County VA, Patrick is the movement instructor for the Carnegie Mellon University Orff-Schulwerk teacher training course as well as the movement and recorder instructor for the Worcester Public Schools Orff-Schulwerk teacher training course. He is an active clinician and choral conductor at both the national and local level.

Patrick has published two songs for Treble Choir and Orff instruments; Sing Winter and Celebrate and is currently working on a new book of original Jazz tunes with lesson plans and teaching suggestions titled Here's Two .

Paul Bakeman - Recorders and Drumming: A Match Made in Heaven!

One of the things we all do music educators is try to build community with our students, parents, and fellow teachers. Recorders and drumming truly are a match made in heaven when your goal is music education and building a sense of community in your school! In this workshop, we will look at ways to combine soprano recoders and Orff instruments to foster a sense of musical community among students, and we'll use the amazing tool of cooperative drumming to see how community can be made not only with students, but with teachers and parents.

Paul Bakeman has been teaching K-5 general music in Hanover County, VA for the past 15 years. In 2001, Mr. Bakeman was selected as the Rural Point Elementary Teacher of the Year, and in the same year he was the recipient of the R.E.B. Award for Teaching Excellence. With the funds he received from this award, Mr. Bakeman traveled to Ghana, West Africa and Hawaii to study drumming. He holds a B.M. in Music Education and an M.M. in Music Education from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has published a recorder method entitled Recorder Connections that is used by music teachers both nationally and internationally, and has presented many workshops on music education and Orff-Schulwerk. He is currently on the faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Orff-Schulwerk level courses, teaching the recorder. In 2006, Mr. Bakeman achieved National Board Certification in early and middle childhood music and in 2009 was recognized as a Yale Distinguished Music Educator. He lives in Mechanicsville, VA with his wife and two daughters.

Artie Almeida   Fun With Fundamentals

Enjoy an action-packed day of ideas to energize your teaching. Sessions will include Mallet Madness, Can You Hear Me Now?  and Recorder Express.

During Mallet Madness, participants will experience fun and accessible activities for barred instruments and drums that emphasize learnings in the areas of rhythm, melody, form, expressive qualities and mallet technique. The unique rotation process through the instruments will make this a very enjoyable and educational experience for your young students. Many of these activities began as drum or non-pitched percussion lessons, and can be easily adapted for rooms without a full Orff instrumentarium.

Can You Hear Me Now? includes a collection of exciting experiences to activate children's listening via movement, flashlight painting, parachute play, ribbon dance, super stretchy and more! Concepts addressed include steady beat, rhythm, form, expressive qualities and style. Music includes the William Tell Overture, Kabalevsky's Galop, The Syncopated Clock and more.

Recorder Express will offer innovative techniques for leading your students to music literacy via the recorder. Bring your soprano recorder and be ready for some surprises!

Dr. Artie Almeida has taught for 29 years and is the music specialist at Bear LakeElementary school in Orlando FL, where she teaches 1200 K-5 students. Her dynamic performing groups have performed for MENC, AOSA, and on the NBC Today Show. Artie was chosen as Florida Music Educator of the Year, and was also selected as an International Educator 2006 by the Cambridge England Biographical Society. She was Runner-Up for Florida Teacher of the Year, and a Teacher of the Year at the school level 6 times. Artie was just chosen as a University of Central Florida Alumni of the Decade.

She served seven years on the Board of Directors of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, and worked as an early childhood music consultant for Walt Disney World. She is the author of 21 published resources for the music classroom. In addition to her public school teaching duties, Artie teaches saxophone lessons and performs on historical winds with the renaissance ensemble Ars Antiqua.