A Day With Master Teachers
The focus of this workshop was on beginner instruction. Emphasis was placed on teaching beginning flute, oboe and trombone in the classroom. Participants were encouraged to bring those instruments with them and actively participate as "beginners."
LOCATION:
Caruth Auditorium
Owen Fine Arts Center
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas
Phone: (214) 768-3719
Sat, Sep 23, 2006
Registration: 8:00 AM
Clinic: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM with a break for lunch
DIRECTIONS:
In between Hillcrest and Bishop on the SMU campus...
Caruth Auditorium is inside the Owen Fine Arts Center, home of the Meadows School of the Arts on the campus of Southern Methodist University. To find Caruth, take the Mockingbird exit from US 75 (North Central Expressway) and go west. Follow Mockingbird till you get to Hillcrest and turn right. Owen is a couple blocks ahead on your right. Park in the lot immediately south of the building. Enter the doors closest to the parking lot, go up one half flight and of stairs and head for the east side of the building where you will find the foyer and entrance to Caruth. Additional parking is available in the Meadows Museum garage on Bishop in the middle of the campus.
Lynne Jackson
Lynne Jackson has taught music education for thirty-six years. She grew up in Michigan where she attended the University of Michigan and Vandercook College of Music. After several years of teaching in Michigan, Lynne came to Richardson, Texas where she taught in the J.J. Pearce cluster for 26 years.
Her tenure included positions at North Junior High, Parkhill Junior High and J.J. Pearce High School. She is currently teaching 6th grade beginning band at Robinson Middle School in Plano and is an adjunct lecturer in music education at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University.
Claire Johnson
Claire Johnson
Claire Gruneis Johnson was born on August 7, 1930 in New Haven, Connecticut. The New York Times headline read "Depression Deepens, 2 Million People Unemployed". But worse that that, Claire was the third daughter born to German immigrants, Emma und Emil Gruneis. However, Claire was not aware of the great depression, or that she was a girl.
Claire's early music studies, along with her sisters, were at the Neighbor House Music School. She started flute when she was eleven years old. (At this time she knew she was a girl.) She and her sisters were known as the Gruneis Trio and were mentioned in the book, "They who Speak Music", a history of the Neighborhood House Music School.
After completing high school, where she won all the usual music awards, Claire entered the Julliard School of Music where she sided with Aura Lora, then principle of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Claire met and married a young tenor, who upon graduation joined the Navy.
Claire reaffirmed her femininity and creativity by producing four children. Life eventually took the family to Texas where she gave birth to her fifth child. Not the stay-at-home type mom and needing to escape back into her profession, she resumed her pedagogical career. Mrs. Johnson contacted Eddie Green, re-remembered all her musical information and resumed her career at Lake Highlands.
Eugene Bonelli, Dean of Fine Arts at SMU invited her to teach and she taught at SMU for thirty-two years. She also taught at East Texas State University. Active in the flute community, Mrs. Johnson lectured at NFA, TBA, and TMEA. She founded the Texas Flute Festival, the Myrna Brown Competition and Floot Fire, a weeklong flute camp for Jr. High and High School students.
At the age of sixty-five, Mrs. Johnson joined the faculty at the University of Houston. She finally retired from university teaching in 2000 and maintains a private studio in Richardson. Mrs. Johnson retains connections with the Richardson Independent School District.
Donna Schmidt
Donna Schmidt
- BME from Texas Tech
- MM from SMU
- 25 years private teaching in the Dallas area. Currently teaching students in Richardson, Carrollton, and Lewisville.
- Former students include English Hornist with the Dallas Opera; Oboe Performance scholarship recipients to the Eastman School of Music, Temple University, Southern Methodist University, Texas Tech University, Oklahoma University.
- Currently performs and/or has performed with the Dallas Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Dallas Opera, Richardson Symphony, Texas Winds Musical Outreach
- Substitute oboe instructor, TCU, fall 1994
- Married to Paul Schmidt with 2 children, Scott and Christa
Joe Dixon
Joe Dixon is well known as a trombonist, brass clinician, instructor, and lecturer. He currently serves as a Master Clinician / Consultant for school music programs throughout Texas. His students have been welcomed at many of the world's great music schools including The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Yale University, Indiana University, Harvard University, and the Royal Academy of Music in London.
His students have performed with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Italian National Radio Orchestra, the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, I Solisti Veneti, the Kennedy Center Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico, and numerous other orchestras and chamber ensembles in North & South America, Europe, and Japan.
Joe Dixon's teachers included Leon Brown (University of North Texas), Allen Ostrander (Bass Trombone, New York Philharmonic; NBC Symphony under Toscanini; Juilliard), and Roger Smith (Solo Trombone, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Solo Euphonium & Assistant Conductor, The Goldman Band; Juilliard). He was a composition student of electronic music pioneer Merrill Ellis (1916-1981) and toured with Prof. ELLIS as a soloist and ensemble member of his New Music Group.
Joe Dixon began private teaching trumpet and trombone at the age of 16 and by the age of 19 maintained a private studio of 120 students. He has taught in the United States, Italy, and Germany. As a trombonist, his performance experience includes symphony, opera, ballet, chamber music and appearances as a soloist.
Joe Dixon has presented hundreds of teacher training programs and has given Master Classes and lectures on brass pedagogy at numerous universities, specialist schools as well as national music educator conventions. His Master Classes and mini-residencies have included visits to Indiana University, the University of Houston, the University of Texas, and presentations in Germany and Italy. In 2002 he was a panelist for the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) Biennial in Nashville, Tennessee. Annually, he has presented a lecture for the "Careers in Music" Freshman program at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas) and also presents lectures to the Brass Methods Classes. His presentations on artist personality, performance preparation, and brass pedagogy are especially popular.
