kay teaches violin and beginner piano from a perspective grounded in Edwin Gordon’s Music Learning Theory and Body Mapping. Through engaging activities and repertoire, students will gain practical tools to build healthy movement patterns and strong music audiation skills.
kay’s approach is highly adaptive, giving students a strong basis to first intuitively feel, and then intellectually understand music, opening up a world of possibility for musical expression, creation, improvisation, and performance.
this approach to music education prioritizes the following aspects of musical learning:
music as movement
– teaching violin technique grounded in an understanding of how our bodies are designed to move
– teaching to develop kinaesthetic awareness to prevent injury and encourage freedom of movement – teaching students to feel music in their bodies, and move with musical expression
music as creativity
– using learning sequenced activities based in Edwin Gordon’s extensive pedagogical research to give students the tools to make musical decisions
– teaching for musical understanding so that students can use improvisation and composition to express themselves
– age-appropriate games and activities to engage students in analyzing and adapting repertoire
music as connection
– teaching a variety of repertoire so that students can discover who they are musically, and what they love
– in addition to core repertoire that builds technique and expands students’ internal musical library, encouraging students to bring their favourite songs, and the favourites songs of family to learn and share
at the heart, giving students the musical tools to engage in music as whatever they want it to be in their lives.
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