Name: ASA Teacher Workshop
Start: 2024-11-02T15:30:00-07:00
End: 2024-11-02T17:00:00-07:00
Location: Orangewood Presbyterian Church

Creative Music Literacy with Carrie Salisbury
Dive into an innovative workshop for Suzuki educators with resources for teaching applied music theory to string students through games, creative composition, and improvisation. Explore strategies for introducing chord theory with early arranging and composition skills using folk songs and popular music. The class will include: a structured pedagogy for music literacy benchmarks, applied activities for lessons and group classes, empowerment to create original arrangements for your multi-level groups, and a comprehensive teacher resource packet in PDF form. Bring your instruments to try the games and strategies yourself as we build a new arrangement together as a multi-level, mixed instrument class.
Carrie Salisbury is a Los Angeles-based performer, small-business owner, and violin/viola teacher. She created StringsPop, a music theory enrichment experience for teens and tweens, and offers innovative teacher and student workshops on Creative Music Literacy. Carrie holds a B.M. in Viola performance and now studies orchestral repertoire and pedagogy with Dr. Mick Wetzel. A Suzuki teacher of 20+ years, she directs the SMAC Los Angeles Branch. Her private students perform regularly as Crescendo Strings, an all-ages multi-level string group and as First Inversion, a premiere teen ensemble known for creating and performing their own arrangements. She is a parent to three young Suzuki string students with her husband, pianist-composer Benjamin Salisbury.