FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9

Session 1: “IMTA 2.0: Attracting and Engaging Today's Music Student"                                                                                            
Presenter: Lola McIntyre
Friday, 10:00-11:00 am

Description: How broad and deep is your digital footprint on the world wide web? Discover how to leverage social media to build your studio reputation, attract students and strengthen collegial relationships with engaging conversations through on-line communities, and have fun at the same time! Session begins with brief overview, followed by practical “how-to's” for every comfort level.

Session 2:  “The Building Blocks of Improvisation”   

Presenter: Phillip Keveren
Friday, 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
 
Description: This session will introduce the analysis of keyboard harmony, melodic development, and rhythmic principals that inform the vocabulary of a skilled improviser.

Session 3:   “Enriching Musical Understanding through Integrated Arts”

Presenter: Sharon Parr
Friday, 1:45-2:45 pm
   
Description: What are the elements the arts have in common and how might an understanding of this enrich the study, teaching and performance of music?  These are questions that will be
addressed as we investigate interrelationships between various artforms and consider how this might inform music study in private studio or classroom.

Session 4:  IMT and College Faculty Panel Discussion - “Music Entrepreneurship Education:  Setting the Groundwork for our High School and College Music Students”

Presenters:  Kelly Freije and Claudia Bossard
Friday, 3:00-4:00 pm

Description: Music Entrepreneurship Education helps students self-create a career in music and is accomplished through a variety of methods - programs, degrees, classes, workshops, and one-time events. Entrepreneurship education is seen by students as serving long-term career goals. In other words, students increasingly understand the value, if not the necessity, of becoming the sole proprietors of their own careers.

Colleges and universities have offered career-based courses and services for decades.  But, for the past five years educators and advocates have centered on improving the professional prospects for music students through entrepreneurship education by holding conferences, workshops, and other events.  New trends in philosophy, curricula, outcome, design and theory are being discussed.

This year's combined forum will focus on how we can include music entrepreneurship education  in our independent studios and college applied courses.

Session 5: “Improvising in Classical and Jazz Styles”                                                                            
Presenter:  Phillip Keveren
Friday, 4:15-5:15 pm
 
Description:  In this interactive session, Phillip Keveren will show us how to analyze formal structures found in both classical and jazz traditions that, when absorbed, lead to solid improvisational skills.

Conference Artists Recital: The Oracle Trio                                                                          
Butz Carruth Recital Hall, Taylor University
Friday, 7:30 pm

RECITAL PROGRAM:

The Oracle Trio:
April Johnson, violin
Peter Seidenberg, cello
Kate Boyd, piano 

Trio in A Major, Hob XV/18                                                    Franz Joseph Haydn

            Allegro moderato                                                          (1732-1809)

            Andante

            Finale: Allegro

Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67                                        Dmitri Shostakovich

            Andante                                                                       (1906-1975)

            Allegro non troppo

            Largo

            Allegretto

INTERMISSION 

SPIN (World Premiere)                                                            Daniel Koontz

                                                                                                (b.1969)

Trio in C Minor , Op. 66                                                          Felix Mendelssohn

            Allegro energico e con fuoco                                         (1809-1847)

            Andante espressivo

            Scherzo. Molto allegro – quasi presto

            Finale. Allegro appassionato

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 

Conference Artists Masterclass
Saturday, 9:00-10:45 am