Pete Madsen

Music

College Music Society SuperRegional Conference

The College Music Society conference provided a forum for the exchange of ideas on a wide variety of teaching issues. The conference program featured presentations, panels, and performances in the areas of composition, ethnomusicology/world music, music education, music technology, musicology, performance, and music theory and analysis.

Because the College Music Society is devoted to all aspects of collegiate music education, the information gained from the conference will improve my instruction and the teaching-learning process in the UNO Department of Music in multiple ways. The various lectures, clinics, and concerts I attended at the conference provided me with new ideas for teaching in the low brass studio. In particular the composer concert that I participated in exposed me to a wide variety of new music that is appropriate for use in the UNO trombone studio. Much of the literature performed included an interdisciplinary aspect, such as the integration of poetry within the context of the musical performance. This has given me many ideas for ways to integrate other art forms (both performing arts and creative writing) into the curriculum of the trombone studio at UNO. This new approach to teaching performance skills through an interactive process includes an interdisciplinary approach that my students have previously not experienced. I look forward to sharing these ideas with them in the classroom.

Finally, as an attendee of the conference I was invited to perform a work for trombone and computer on the Saturday afternoon concert. The process of preparing a new piece of music for trombone and interactive computer will help me teach my students about the latest advances in music technology and the most current applications of electro-acoustic music performance.

I am pleased that UCTA was able to support my presence at the College Music Society Conference!

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