Expand your knowledge of South Asian music for the Elementary Music classroom and learn techniques for integrating instruments into your Kodály inspired practice with our incredible presenters at this year's Singposium! Bring a lunch and join us for our annual AGM over the lunch break.
When: Saturday, March 8th, 2025, 10-3 PM
Where: Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta
Session 1: Building Pathways into the World of South Asian Music
Music classrooms today are diverse with students that come from various backgrounds. It is important to recognize that the socio-musical-cultural knowledge these students bring are important and have helped in generating their self- identities. This workshop will guide educators to viscerally experience South Asian folk and popular music-making utilizing a World Music Pedagogy approach. The lessons will include listening, singing, movement, playing, and improvisatory sessions that will help create interdisciplinary approaches. Similarities between South Asian, Kodály, and Orff Schulwerk pedagogies will be highlighted to make interconnections between the different musical traditions through melodic and rhythmic aspects.
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Session 2: Incredible Inspired Instruments: Exploring and Creating with Orff
Instruments are a natural extension of the body - our voices and simple body percussion can be used as a base to create instrumental masterpieces with students. This hands-on workshop will inspire with a wide variety of kid tested, kid approved material, and will be adaptable across multiple grade levels. Participants will explore the use of instruments within the Orff philosophy, and make connections to the Kodaly method. Through playful exploration and improvisation, participants will speak, move, play and sing, balancing musical self-discovery and creativity with FUN!
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Oshadhee Satarasinghe is co-facilitator and instructor at the Early Childhood Music Program at MountRoyal University. She completed her doctoral studies in Music Education at the University of Calgary, and holds a masters in Elementary music education, and a bachelor’s in music education from Texas A&M University-Commerce. Oshadhee is certified in both Orff and Kodály disciplines.
She has taught elementary, secondary choral, and university-level courses in Canada, USA, and Sri Lanka. She has presented in workshops and conferences at both local and national levels on South Asian music integration. Oshadhee has published lesson plans, peer-reviewed articles /chapters in top-tier academic journals/books.
Heather Nail has been an Orff Music Specialist for the Calgary Board of Education for 24 years. She holds Orff level three certification, and has a Master of Education degree from the University of Alberta, specializing in Elementary Music. Heather co-teaches the Introductory Orff level in Calgary, and in 2010 was a semi-finalist in the Alberta Excellence in Teaching awards. She presents regularly at music conferences in western Canada and beyond, and completed the Orff Institute Summer course in Salzburg, Austria in 2023. Heather mentors emerging music teachers in Calgary, conducts the Westside Junior Concert Choir, and currently serves as the president of Carl Orff Canada.
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