Art Study Opportunity for Youth
Art Study Opportunity for Youth
Summer Orchestra Camp.
John White: writer, photographer, retired journalist; Georgette Jones: literature teacher, theatre actor, director, teacher; Anna Johanssen: fiber artist, art teacher, Remick Gallery board, president of Windom Women’s Investment group, treasurer of Cottonwood County Animal Rescue, officer of Cotton Quilters; Kristen Kuipers: musician, private lesson and K-12 classroom music instructor, theater, writing, volunteer with Jackson Center for the Arts; Janet Olney: visual artist, Willmar Area Arts Council coordinator; Joyce Meyer: photographer, retired art teacher, Canby Arts Council; Michele Knife Sterner: theater actor, Southwest Minnesota State University Associate director for Access Opportunity Success program; Lisa Hill: musician, Crow River Singers, attorney; Emily Petersen: visual artist, art teacher; David KelseyBassett: visual artist, musician; Anne O’Keefe-Jackson: human resources director, bead and quill work; Scott Wessels: theater actor, director, writing, media, communications, board member for Green Earth Players; Brett Lehman: musician, social worker, Worthington City Band, Worthington Concert Association; Erica Volkir: performing arts, Director of Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB; Claire Swanson: visual arts, arts teacher, Meander Art Crawl Committee.
Cat Abbott Meier: visual art; Nikki Bettcher Erickson: theater, education; Cathie Crouse: language arts, education; Jessica Gorman: visual art; Reggie Gorter: music, dance, education; Brett Lehman: music, Southwest Minnesota Arts Council board; Claire Swanson: visual art, Southwest Minnesota Arts Council board.
ACHF Arts Education
My goal is to become better at playing expressively and shifting more smoothly because these skills are required to audition for All-State Honor Orchestra. I have a piece that requires a lot of skill in both of these areas and I will bring it to the camp so that I can improve. I also plan on working on my skills for playing with a group, better tone quality (mostly on higher notes), and finding the best optimal fingerings when shifting and playing fast melodies. I hope that the extra instruction at camp and the required practice will enhance my playing so that I will be ready to audition for All-State. Being accepted into the All-State Orchestra will further my goals to enter college as a music student and one day play professionally. I will be bringing the piece Concerto No. Four by G. Goltermann to camp. I will record myself playing this piece before and after the camp and compare. I will have my orchestra director listen as well as people at the camp as well. I can write down their responses to my improvement as well as my own. When I compare I will compare my shifting, phrasing, and expressiveness, as well as other things like rhythm, tempo, intonation, articulation, and dynamics. I will also make sure the way I each section of the piece matches with the mood it is supposed to be played in.
I have two recordings and I think I improved. My tempo was definitely the biggest change. We had free time at camp so we could practice and I think the practicing helped me get it up to speed. I've found that my dynamics are better, which goes hand-in-hand with phrasing very well. In the higher notes of the piece I was better at not slowing down and also not "stuttering" musically. In other pieces I've found that I've improved in the higher registers too.
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