Give your students the opportunity to work with a Wisconsin composer as they learn the basics of composing. This workshop offers the experience of creative collaboration and promotes teamwork as students learn the process of composing a song from beginning to end.
Cooperating composer:
Christopher Frye, a Wisconsin composer, serves as theory instructor and chair of the music department at the University of Wisconsin – LaCrosse. His compositions include a variety of choral, chamber, electronic, and jazz works. He also plays an active role in the Wisconsin Alliance for Composers.
Composer Responsibilities:
- Gather goals from classroom educator, student role(s) and length of workshop
- Model steps of composition with their own and/or student work
- Lead to a short presentable composition
- Additionally, they may model software/technology used in composing and other skills as they and educator determine
Teacher Responsibilities:
- Contact Wisconsin School Music Association (WSMA) to contract with composer
- Ensure access to and hosting on school’s virtual platform
- Prepare students to work with composer
- Share classroom type, goals, and ideas with composer
- Choose type of project
- individual student project (each student creates their own idea or piece) or
- group project (group creates a piece during the workshop and then performs it)
- Determine length of workshop
- one ninety minute session (or two forty-five minute sessions)
- two hours (time divided per educator and composer scheduling)
- Schedule date and time with composer
Fees paid to WSMA (includes composer fees):
- $225 for one 90-minute session or two 45-minute sessions
- $250 for one 90-minute session or two 45-minute sessions + discount code*
- $300 for two hours (time divided per educator and composer scheduling)
- $325 for two hours (time divided per educator and composer scheduling) + discount code*
*For the additional $25, a discount code is provided toward Student Composition Project registrations ($2 off comment only and $3 off competition).
Submit an inquiry form to schedule a workshop.
Payment will be submitted via an online form once the workshop is scheduled with the composer.
Questions about classroom workshops? Contact Victoria Donahue at 608-850-1022.
