Kudos to Jenny, age 10, trophy winner at the GCMA 2016 Sonatina Festival!
Jenny wins trophy at Sonatina Festival!
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Georgia, top rating at Gold Cup 2016
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Congratulations to Georgia, age 9, for top rating at this year’s Gold Cup Festival playing Olson’s Sonatina No. 1 (Sunny Today) and Rejino’s Flying My Kite!
New Professional Affiliation with the Gulf Coast Music Association
I am very pleased to announce that the Gulf Coast Music Association (GCMA) has approved my membership application as a piano teacher! The GCMA is an organization of private music teachers in the Clear Lake / Bay Area that offers performance opportunities to students and is a member of the Texas and National Federations of Music Clubs. You may have heard of the Gold Cup Festival that is very popular among private piano students and teachers. In fact, my own private piano teacher, Mary Ann Colonna, with whom I studied for nearly 12 years right across the street from NASA, was a member of GCMA. As a child and teenager, I enjoyed going to the Gold Cup, Sonatina and Romantic Festivals and taking the music theory tests. Through these festivals I felt that I was a part of the larger community of piano students that loved their art enough to practice regularly and go to these weekend events, even when there may not have been any classmates at school who identified with this interest. Since meeting several current GCMA members who share my passion for music education and piano music, I feel sure that the sense of community that GCMA fosters will be just as motivating to me as a teacher as it was when I was a student!
The first GCMA event of 2015-16 is the Autumn Artist Festival, which brings concert pianists to perform in the Bay Area. This year’s Autumn Artist Festival will feature pianist Roger Wright in a recital at Clear Lake Presbyterian Church on Friday, November 5, at 7:30pm. Tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for students. To purchase, please contact me at Carla@Musikhaustexas.com. For more information about Roger Wright and all GCMA festivals, see the following page: http://gulfcoastmusicteachers.org/Festivals.php.
–by Carla J. Seibert
Attending the 5th International Conference on Music Learning Theory
From August 4 to 9, 2015, teacher Carla Seibert will be in Chicago for the 5th International Conference on Music Learning Theory: Audiation from the Inside Out, held by the Gordon Institute for Music Learning Theory. Dr. Gordon, 87 years, will not attend the conference this year, but many music educators and researchers dedicated to developing the music potential of each person will present. At this conference Carla hopes to gain insights into helping students to develop musically as if they were learning a native language, through movement, singing and playing the piano.
“Music Learning Theory is an explanation of how we learn when we learn music. Based on an extensive body of research and practical field testing by Edwin E. Gordon and others, Music Learning Theory is a comprehensive method for teaching audiation, Gordon’s term for the ability to think music in the mind with understanding. Music Learning Theory principles guide music teachers of all stripes–early childhood, elementary general, instrumental, vocal, the private studio–in establishing sequential curricular goals in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs. The primary objective is development of students’ tonal and rhythm audiation. Through audiation students are able to draw greater meaning from the music they listen to, perform, improvise, and compose.”
— from giml.org/mlt/about/, emphasis Carla’s
I have Music Learning Theory colleagues from Brazil and the US, in piano and in early childhood music!
Piano and Early Childhood Music Lessons Coming to Clear Lake / League City Area!
Jessie, Musikhaus mascot
In December 2014, Musikhaus Music Education moved from Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, to Seabrook, Texas, USA (with mascot Jessie! – see photo), becoming Musikhaus Piano and Early Childhood Music Studio, serving the Clear Lake / League City area southeast of Houston (the Bay Area) and Friendswood. The new Musikhaus will officially inaugurate activities for the fall semester of 2015, though I’ve been very fortunate to be teaching my first, talented piano student in the US since January!
This year Musikhaus will focus on musical beginnings to help students learn music similarly to the way they learn their native languages:
- Music Play – interactive music and movement for babies, toddlers and preschoolers up to 5 years of age with caregivers; groups of 2 to 6 students, 40 minutes per week (plus attunement and transition time)
- Keyboard Games – classes for 4- to 6-year-olds incorporating singing, movement and piano activities; groups of 2 to 4 students, 50 minutes per week
- Piano Lessons for 6 years and up – developing musical fluency with improvisation and creative repertoire at the piano, singing and movement; groups of 2 students, 55 minutes per week (50-minute private lessons possible if lesson partners not available)
Let me know if you have any questions at carla@musikhaustexas.com, or follow the Musikhaus Facebook page to stay up to date.
The Musikhaus space, including bathroom, is wheelchair accessible except for wide cambered chairs.
Se habla español. Falamos português.
by Carla J. Seibert
Musikhaus Piano Lessons 