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Teaching Music Improvisation Seminar
What Is The Teaching Improvisation Seminar?
The Teaching Improvisation Seminar is a step-by-step training program for teachers who want to include improvisation in their music lessons. In the seminar, you will learn how to introduce improvising to a student who has never done it before and how to guide a student's continuing development. And because improvisation is not the property of jazz but is the oldest form of music making, the skills that are addressed in the seminar apply to not only jazz but all styles of music. You will emerge from the seminar with the ability to teach improvisation with ease and enjoyment.
Who Should Take This Seminar?
The Teaching Improvisation Seminar is for teachers who have or who want to attract students who improvise or who play jazz. It is especially suitable for teachers who feel mystified by improvisation, who need answers about how jazz works, or who don't know what to do when a student shows an aptitude for improvising. Jeffrey's instructional methods will work effectively with students of all instruments and all ages.
How Will You Benefit?
Knowing how to teach improvisation increases the demand for your services. It equips you with what many prospective students are looking for, and it enables you to have more to offer to them and to your current students. Because the Teaching Improvisation Seminar is a hands-on experience, you will become an improviser if you are not one already. You will discover improvisation techniques that bring fast results and that are reliable, simple, easy, and fun. And you will enjoy a positive and inclusive community experience.
A Message from Jeffrey
"Please join me on my mission to re-introduce this vital and rewarding form of music-making into our teaching. Improvisation used to be a basic skill for any musician. Let's reclaim our own total musicianship, and let's position our students to enjoy this rich avenue for musical expression. Check out Lesson #6 on the One-Minute Music Lessons page."
World Class Music Instruction
Jeffrey Chappell is a gifted, innovative teacher who is renowned for his ability to connect with every student. He has led workshops on improvisation for chapters of the Music Teachers National Association in the states of Maryland and Virginia, as well as for the professional studies program at the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C. He has frequently improvised for silent films at the National Gallery of Art and was a member of The Lenox Ensemble, an improvisation group of classical musicians. An active concert artist, he is a graduate of the Curtis Institute and the Peabody Conservatory, and was a scholarship student of Rudolf Serkin, Eleanor Sokoloff, and Leon Fleisher, and was the protégé of Jane Allen. He teaches improvisation as the Director of Jazz Studies at Goucher College in Baltimore and on the faculty of the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C. He is also a recording artist, a composer, and an author of articles for music magazines.