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NCAKE

PRESENTS its FABULOUS
2010 Workshops

INCLUDING an

ALL NEW APRIL WORKSHOP!

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• Workshop 3

Fernando Malvar-RuizFernando Malvar-Ruiz, music director, American Boychoir
“Music Literacy in the Rehearsal Room” & “Warming Up the Voice:  A Practical Demonstration with The American Boychoir”
April 24, 2010,
Cathedral of Christ the Light, 2121 Harrison Street, Oakland, CA   
9:30 am - 1 pm (registration begins at 9:00 am)

Mr. Malvar-Ruiz, appointed Music Director of The American Boychoir in July 2004, has toured with the Choir to 39 states and Canada. He attended the Kodály Institute in Kécskemet, Hungary, and received the Sharolta Kodály scholarship by
unanimous decision of the faculty. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in musical arts from the University of Illinois. This March 18-20, Mr. Malvar-Ruiz will direct the OAKE National Youth Choir in Dallas, TX as well as present a featured concert with the American Boychoir. NCAKE is very excited to present this workshop, co-sponsored by the San Francisco Boys Chorus.

 

 

Past Workshops in this year's Series:

Sanna Longden

 

Sanna Longden
"No Child Left on His or Her Behind: World Singing Games and Folk Dances for the Music Classroom.”
Saturday, February 6, 2010, 9:30 - 3:00 pm San Francisco Day School, 350 Masonic
Avenue, San Francisco

 

Sanna Longden is an internationally renowned world dance teacher and multicultural movement educator from Evanston, Illinois. Her specialty is to focus on the "folk," emphasizing ethnic movement, music, styling, and cultural background. Sanna's lessons illustrate how dance and movement activities can encourage community, civility, and cooperative teamwork, as well as creativity, concentration, and cultural and curriculum connections. Sanna’s NCAKE workshop will focus on singing games in many languages and on dances performed with recorded music from her CDs.


• Workshop 1

Arwen de Castellanos and Lydia Mills
“Bringing Spanish Music into Your Classroom!”
October 3, 2009, 9:30 am - 1 pm
Cal State East Bay, Hayward, Arts and Education Building, Rm 142
Use Parkling lots H and K

Arwen de Castellanos and Lydia Mills, who are both performers of traditional Latin American music and classroom music teachers, bring a lively workshop with lovely melodies and fun-filled Spanish language games for your classroom. New repertoire for use with the early elements so-mi, la, ta, titi, and rest will be presented, as well as more advanced traditional singing games from regions of Mexico, Argentina, Puerto Rico and Peru for older students.
Lydia will also report on her experiences in giving introductory Kodály workshops in Puerto Rico, Peru, and Colombia and on the rapidly growing interest from music teachers from all over Latin America in Kodály’s wonderful approach to teaching music to children.