A Winning Ensemble Program
A Winning Ensemble Program is all about the importance of student-run ensembles in your music program. The focus will be on students leading their ensembles from finding members, deciding what instruments they’ll be playing or singing/rapping, deciding what music to learn, obtaining or writing their parts, running rehearsals, and lining up performances. Meanwhile the teacher is merely a coach on the sideline guiding and answering questions when necessary.
Groups range from traditional chamber ensembles to rock bands and everything in between including movie-theme ensembles, video game music bands, hip hop groups, tribute bands, bluegrass ensembles, Mariachi bands and much more.
The “winning” part of the title of this session actually refers to the time these groups meet: WIN Time which is a resource time built into our schedule. So we’ll also talk about schedule.
Discover this creative way to involve your students in music and watch students both flock to your program and stay in it all while growing as musicians and as humans.
Session Objectives:
Forming successful student-run ensembles
Giving students ownership over their musical endeavors
Adding a special component to your music program
