reading clinic 2013 - long & mcquade

Concert Band

Jazz Band

Church Choir

Elementary & Secondary Choir

Community Choir

Classroom Music

VictoriaAugust 26-27, 2013

EdmontonSeptember 6-7, 2013

CalgaryAugust 22-23, 2012

1991 Main Street, Vancouver B.C. V5T 3C1

Edmonton Location:

Ascension Lutheran Church, 8405-83rd Street, Edmonton (free parking nearby)

Register online! Visit: northwestmusic.ca/clinic

Calgary Location:

Southwood United Church, 10690 Elbow Drive SW, Calgary

Register with Taryn Mader, Long & McQuade Calgary, 403-461-5185 [email protected]

Victoria Location:

The reading clinics will be held at Pacific Christian School, Secondary Campus, 654 Agnes Street, Victoria

The social hour on the 27th at 6:00pm is being held at the 5th Street Bar & Grill, 1028 Hillside Avenue, Victoria

Register online! Visit: www.readingclinic.ca

Tuesday, August 27 Saturday, September 7

Friday, August 23

Monday, August 26 Friday, September 6

Thursday, August 22

Concert Band Secular

Secular

Choral/Jazz Sacred

Sacred

8:00am - Registration / Music Exhibits

9:00am - Concert Band Reading Session: New Issues (Dr. Robert Taylor)

10:50am - Concert Band Reading Session: New Issues, continued (Taylor)

12:00pm - Lunch / Music Exhibits

1:00pm - Concert Band Reading Session: New Issues, continued

(Taylor)

2:20pm - Concert Band Reading Session: New Issues, continued (Taylor)

4:00pm-6:00pm - Social Hour: Following the Reading Session, you are invited to join us for free appies and drinks at the 5th Street Bar & Grill (see below for address)

8:30am - 9:30am: Registration, pick up your pack.

9:30am - 2:00pm: Choose one of the following:

• Session A: Elementary and Children’s Choir

• Session B: High School, College & Community Choir

1:00pm - 3:15pm: FREE BONUS SESSION! Choral Reading Session: Sacred Choral (Church/Community)


9:30am - Book Review: New Choral Resources, Texts and Collections (Willi Zwozdesky)

10:00am - Choral Reading Session: Changed Voice Repertoire (Zwozdesky)

11:00am - Choral Reading Session: Go, Canada! (Zwozdesky)


1:00pm - Choral Reading Session: Unchanged Treble Voices Repertoire (Zwozdesky)

2:30pm-4:30pm - Reading Session: Jazz Band Reading Session (Gordon Clements)

6:00pm - 7:00pm: Socialize, register and pick up your pack.

7:00pm - 10:00pm: Sacred repertoire for all seasons of the church year, including a Christmas cantata.

9:00am - Book Review: New Choral Resources, Texts & Collections

9:30am - 10:45am - Choral Reading Session: Changed Voice Repertoire (High School/Adult/Community)

11:00am - 12:00pm - Choral Reading Session: Go Canada! (As Above)


1:00pm - 2:30pm - Choral Reading Session: Unchanged Voice Repertoire (Elementary/Community)

Gordon Clements, one of Victoria’s busiest woodwind players since 1975, has worked as a soloist on numerous recordings, including 6 CDs of his own released since 1998. Prior to his current position of solo

saxophonist for the Victoria Symphony, Mr. Clements held the bass clarinet chair for 15 years. He recently retired as Head of Jazz Studies at the Victoria Conservatory of Music and Artistic Director of the VCM Summer Jazz Workshop. He has also taught at the University of Victoria’s School of Music and many of Greater Victoria’s public and private secondary schools. He has been a popular adjudicator at most of BC’s solo and ensemble music festivals.

Bios for Willi Zwozdesky and Dr. Robert Taylor can be found on the reverse of this page.

Visit Northwest Music online at www.northwestmusic.ca our online store features over 12,000 choral titles including the full Music First Express catalogue!

2013 Band & Choral Reading Clinic

Vancouver August 19-22

Victoria August 26-27

Edmonton September 6-7

Calgary August 22-23

Judith Herrington, a highly regarded guest con-ductor, workshop clinician and choral clinician, brings over 35 years of teaching & conducting experience to her work at Tacoma Youth Chorus and Charles Wright Academy in Ta-

coma, Washington. A graduate of the University of Oregon, Ms. Herrington earned her Master of Education degree from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR, and has furthered her conduct-ing studies through masterclasses with Rod-ney Eichenberger and Henry Leck. She has also published choral compositions, arrangements and co-authored choral teaching texts through Pavane, Hal Leonard and Colla Voce Publishing.

Dr. Robert Taylor is the Director of Bands at the University of British Colum-bia, where he conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Concert Winds, teach-es instrumental conduct-ing, and heads the brass division. Prior to his ap-

pointment at UBC, Dr. Taylor served as the Direc-tor of Bands at the University of Puget Sound. He received his Doctor of Music degree in conducting from Northwestern University and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Trumpet and Music Education from Humboldt State University. He maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor and clinician, and his research has been published in GIA’s Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series.

Dr. Bruce Pearson is a world-renowned music educator, author, com-poser, conductor and cli-nician. He is the author of Best in Class and The Standard of Excellence Band Methods, and he has contributed to many

others. Dr. Pearson is also well-known as a composer of many widely-performed com-positions for concert band and jazz ensem-ble. He has been a guest conductor through-out North America, Asia and Europe, and has taught at the elementary, junior high, high school and college level for over thirty years. Dr. Pearson’s appearance is made possible by the support of the Kjos Music Company.

Willi Zwozdesky, now in his 33rd season as conduc-tor of the Vancouver Men’s Chorus, is widely known as a choral conductor, for his work as an arranger, and for his work in music publishing and arts man-agement. He completed

his Master of Music in choral conducting and a Master of Arts in music theory at the Univer-sity of Washington. At the core of Zwozdesky’s career are his choral arrangements, which are regularly programmed by leading choirs across Canada and abroad. In addition to his freelance work as a choral clinician, he serves as the Ex-ecutive Director of the BCCF, and as a choral spe-cialist for Long & McQuade.

Fred Stride is the Senior Lecturer and Director of Jazz Ensembles, Jazz Theory and Jazz Arrang-ing at the University of British Columbia and is active as a band leader and guest conductor. He works as a clinician, ad-

judicator and teacher at various music fes-tivals, summer camps and jazz workshops across the country. Fred has written works for the CBC Orchestra, the VSO, several Ca-nadian Armed Forces Bands, the Brampton Concert Band, the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the UVIC Wind Symphony. Many of his jazz compositions are published by Sierra Music Publications.

John Purifoy is an ASCAP composer and arranger with various published choral anthems, cantatas and key-board collections and works recorded by Carol Lawrence, Anita Kerr, the Chicago Mas-ter Chorale and other art-ists. His work for chorus and

orchestra, We Hold These Truths, narrated by Alex Haley, won the 1987 Freedoms Foundation Award for musical programs. He is the composer and lyricist of the stage musical, Lambarene, which received a workshop production at the state theatre of New Jersey in 1991. John Purifoy appears courtesy of Hal Leonard & Lorenz.

Cheryl Lavender is rec-ognized as a master music educator, composer, au-thor and clinician. Her 50+ resources for music educa-tors include World Part-ners, Making Each Minute Count, The Ultimate Music Assessment and Evalua-

tion Kit, Songs of the Rainbow Children, Rhythm & Melody Flash Card Kits and her popular Music Bingo series. Cheryl’s enthusiasm for teaching music, coupled with her love for children, make her one of the most sought-after clinicians in music education. Having taught music for 37 years at the elementary through university levels, Cheryl maintains an active writing and speaking schedule through Hal Leonard.

2013 Band & Choral Reading Clinic

Exciting news for band and choral music educators! This summer, it’s the best of both worlds as Northwest Musical Services joins Long & McQuade Music for a combined Band and Choral Reading Clinic, August 19-22 in Vancouver. This upbeat combination continues the long-established traditions of both firms, extending our essen-tial services to music educators.

Fine new music is the focus, with hand-picked charts for concert and jazz bands along-side great selections for school, church, and community choirs. The Band Clinic features two full days of concert and jazz band reading sessions; the Choral Clinic includes workshops and two days of classroom and chil-dren’s music, a day of middle and high school, college, and community choir music, and a full day of sacred music for the church. All sessions are present-ed by leading professionals in the field, ensuring a productive and inspiring experience for all!

Tuesday, August 20

Wednesday, August 21 Wednesday, August 21

Thursday, August 22

Monday, August 19

Thursday, August 22Choral, Unchanged Voices

Choral, Changed Voices Jazz Band / Concert Band

Sacred Choral

Music First Express Elementary Resources

Concert Band


9:30am - Choral Workshop: A Gesture Is Worth a Thousand Words (Judith Herrington)

11:00am - Choral Reading Session: Elementary Classroom, Community and Church Choirs (Herrington / Willi Zwozdesky)


1:15pm - Choral Reading Session: Advanced Children’s Choirs (Herrington / Zwozdesky)

2:15pm - Book Review: Classroom Resources (Zwozdesky)

3:00pm - Choral Workshop: Activities That Energize, Inspire and Motivate (Herrington)

4:00pm - Social Hour / Music Exhibits


9:00am - Book Review (Zwozdesky)

9:30am - Choral Workshop: A Gesture Is Worth a Thousand Words (Herrington)

11:00am - Choral Reading Session: Beginning Music for Changed Voices (Herrington/Zwozdesky)


1:15pm - Choral Reading Session: Go, Canada! (Zwozdesky)

2:45pm - Choral Reading Session: Adult Community and Church Choirs (Zwozdesky)



9:00am - Jazz Band Reading Session (Fred Stride)

10:50am - Jazz Band Reading Session, continued (Stride)


1:15pm - Concert Band Desert Island Reading Session (Dr. Robert Taylor)

3:00pm - Concert Band Desert Island Reading Session, continued (Taylor)


9:00am - 12:30pm - Sacred Choral Reading Session (John Purifoy)

12:30pm - 1:30pm - Lunch / Music Exhibits

1:30pm - 4:00pm - Sacred Choral Reading Session, Continued (Purifoy)


10:00am - 12:00pm - Choral Reading Session: New Classroom Resources from the Music First Express catalogue (Cheryl Lavender)


1:30pm-3:30pm - Choral Reading Session: New Classroom Resources from the Music First Express catalogue, continued (Lavender)


9:00am - Concert Band Reading Session: New Issues (Dr. Bruce Pearson)

10:50am - Concert Band Reading Session: New Issues, continued (Pearson)


1:00pm - Workshop: Inspire Excellence in Your Young Band: Achieve the Most in Every Lesson (Pearson)

2:00pm - Concert Band Reading Session: New Issues, continued (Pearson)

3:10pm - Concert Band Reading Session: New Issues, continued (Pearson)


Our CliniciansVancouver Choral Sessions Band Sessions

Vancouver Location:

Michael J. Fox Theatre, 7373 MacPherson Avenue, Burnaby.

Register online! Visit: www.readingclinic.ca

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