Crane School of Music Hosts Visiting Master Teacher Jodie Blackshaw

SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music Welcomes Jodie Blackshaw, the 2015 Joy Anthony Douglass Master Teacher, for Residency

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Jodie Blackshaw will visit SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music next week, as the 2015 Joy Anthony Douglass Visiting Master Teacher (Photo: Annie Rose Armour).

POTSDAM, NY (09/28/2015)(readMedia)-- SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music will welcome the award-winning composer and internationally-recognized educator, Jodie Blackshaw, as the 2015 Joy Anthony Douglass Visiting Master Teacher, in an upcoming week-long residency.

Blackshaw is well known for her 21st century modes of creativity, movement, vocalizations and alternative orchestration techniques for enriching musical experiences. During her visit to Crane, she will share her expertise with undergraduate music education classes and with performing ensembles.

Her visit will include three public workshop-performances at The Crane School of Music, as follows:

  • Monday, Oct. 5: Cortland Honor Band, 3 p.m., in the Helen M. Hosmer Concert Hall
  • Tuesday, Oct. 6: SUNY Potsdam Campus Community Band, 6 p.m., also in Hosmer Hall
  • Thursday, Oct. 8: A.A. Kingston Middle School Band, 11:30 a.m., in the Sara M. Snell Music Theatre

All three events are free and the public is invited to attend.

Blackshaw's visit to Potsdam is made possible through the Joy Anthony Douglass Visiting Master Teacher Fund, which was established by Joy Anthony Douglass '56 to honor the transformative experiences she had as a student during her time at Crane. The fund enables visiting master teachers to share their insights and expertise with Crane School of Music students and faculty, as well as music educators throughout the region.

About the visiting master teacher:

Jodie Blackshaw, of New South Wales, Australia, won the inaugural Frank Ticheli Composition Contest in 2006, for her piece "Whirlwind" and second place for "Terpsichorean Dances." Her works have been commissioned and performed worldwide, including at the University of North Texas and at the Australian National Band and Orchestra Conference. Blackshaw is the American Composer's Forum Bandquest Composer for 2015. She has been a guest clinician and presenter at many conferences and institutions, including the Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Ithaca College, Western Washington University and Western University in London, Ontario. Blackshaw is fanatical about producing quality, meaningful musical works. She desires that her music not just be "another piece," but an educational and spiritual journey for the musicians, the director and the audience.

For more information about SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music, please visit www.potsdam.edu/crane.

Founded in 1886, SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music has a long legacy of excellence in music education and performance. Life at Crane includes an incredible array of more than 300 recitals, lectures and concerts presented by faculty, students and guests each year. The Crane School of Music is the State University of New York's only All-Steinway institution.

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