Artists Collective 2018 – 2019 Workshop Schedule

Music Department The Artists Collective’s Music Department offers group and private workshops in saxophone, flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, acoustic and electronic guitar and bass, piano, violin, drums and voice. Many instructors are selected students trained by Jackie McLean and faculty from the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz, Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, using his teaching methods, which include and emphasize improvisation. Sight-reading, theory and western classical techniques are also taught. René McLean, acclaimed multi-instrumental composer, educator, serves as artist-in-residence.

Music Workshops Music students receive a half-hour private lesson once a week. Group music workshops are also available for many course offerings and consist of one to two hours of instruction, one day per week. Each student will receive quality instruction, plus the experience of a challenging music environment. Upon instructor recommendation, students may be reassigned for private lessons. Selected students are invited to audition for our various music ensembles.

Rites of Passage Cultural Arts and Education/Children’s Voices – Choral and ensemble training, breathing, intonation, projection, pronunciation, as well as other singing techniques for selected 4th – 12th grade students. Younger students accepted through special audition.

Rites of Passage Cultural Arts and Education Program Music – This program is for selected 4th – 12th grade students of Annie Fisher, M. L. King, Milner, Rawson, Simpson-Waverly, Wish, Mark Twain, Jumoke Academy, Hartford and CREC Choice Public Schools, who receive instruction in music appreciation and choral music.

Music Department Schedule

TUESDAY TIME AGE INSTRUCTOR ROOM #

ROP Children's Voices 4:30-5:30 Selected S tudents TBA Atrium

Vocal/P iano 4:00-8:00 7-Adults Melvin 208

Blues Guitar 5:00-5:30 7-Adults Williams 204

Acous tic Guitar 5:30-6:30 7-18 yrs . Williams 207

Ens emble

Blues Guitar 6:30-8:00 7-Adults Williams 204

P iano 4:00-8:00 7-Adults North 205

Vocal/P iano 5:30-7:00 7-Adults TBA 201

WEDNESDAY

Vocal/P iano 4:00-8:00 7-Adults Melvin 204

P iano/Guita r 4:00-8:00 7-Adults North 205

Woodwinds /P iano 4:00-7:00 7-Adults Greenfogel 208

Vocal/P iano 6:00-8:00 7-Adults TBA 201

Youth J azz Orches tra 5:30-7:30 Selected S tudents McLea n 207

THURSDAY

Blues Guitar 4:30-8:00 7-Adults Williams 204

P iano/Guita r 4:00-8:00 7-Adults North 205

Woodwinds /P iano 4:00-7:00 7-Adults Greenfogel 208

Trombone/P iano 4:00-8:00 7-Adults Davis 209

Vocal/P iano 4:00-8:00 7-Adults Melvin 203

Vocal/P iano 4:00-7:00 7-Adults TBA 201

Drums 4:00-7:30 7-Adults Woodard 207

SATURDAY

Piano/Guita r 9:00-3:30 7-Adults North 205

Violin 9:00-11:30 7-Adults Leffingwell 204

Woodwinds /P iano 10:00-1:00 7-Adults Greenfogel 203

Vocal/P iano 10:30-3:00 9-Adults TBA 201

Trumpet/P iano 9:00-3:30 7-Adults Dicks 206

Schedule , s ta ff and s pecia l events subject to change