Welcome To The Student Portal!
All the lesson resources are contained here. I will also post recital and performance class info here as it becomes available. I hope you will find these resources useful to you. Please don't hesitate to ask me for something you want available here.
I'm so excited you're here!
-Shanna
Announcements
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Guest Teacher week with James Donahue July 12-13, Info on google calendar and below.
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Independent Growth Weeks, Performance Studio Classes and Practice Partners are up on the calendar
What Does Practice Mean?
Student Dropbox
If for any reason the Links below fail, use this link: Direct Dropbox Link
Studio Calendar
Need to change a lesson time? Use the SWAP LIST first, contact me second.
This calendar should reflect any changes as they are made and will be regarded as the master schedule for any and all references of "when is my lesson this week?"
If there are errors or concerns, contact me immediately.
Location Code Key:
VHHS = Vernon Hills High School (145 Lakeview Pkwy, Vernon Hills, IL 60061)
EV = Evanston Home Studio (918 Main St. #2, Evanston, IL 60202)
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Studio Classes & Workshops
Details for 2021-2022 School year TBA
Performance Classes – Saturday, 4pm
Subject to change, google calendar has most updated info.
23 October
18 December
22 January
19 February
19 March
23 April
21 May
Workshop Classes
Subject to change, google calendar has most updated info.
7 November, 4pm Practice Strategies w/Elizabeth Erenberg
Practice Strategies for more fun and faster learning! Everyone should bring one or two passages of their music that are challenging. They can be fast or slow. You'll learn how little time it takes to achieve good results with some special timed exercises. There'll be games and sight-reading tips too!
Elizabeth Erenberg uses the flute to help people be more calm, confident, and free. Her work has reached classrooms, concert halls, and events large and small, all over the world. Elizabeth is a committed teacher to her private studio and the all-online Elizabeth Erenberg Flute Academy. As a performer, she’s been hailed as “virtuosic” by The Boston Globe, “remarkable” by the Boston Musical Intelligencer, and heard on the airwaves of KUSC Los Angeles, WCRB Boston, and more. Her skill for contemporary music can be heard on her self-produced album, ASCEND. Behind the scenes, Elizabeth has been a music advocate, marketer, and administrator for organizations like Radius Ensemble, Tufts University, NPR’s From the Top, and more. Elizabeth holds degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music and the University of Oregon. She currently freelances and teaches in Central Pennsylvania.
4 December, 4pm Game Night!
Shanna will lead a fun game night! :)
8 January, 4pm Electronics for Flute & Shannon Lewis
Electronics and your flute! We'll spend the evening with Shannon Lewis and learn how to use Ableton to make fun electronic music creations with (or without) your flute!
Instructions for how to prep in advance will be providided the week in advance.
Originally an artist with a paintbrush, Shannon Lewis made her most important decision at a young age when she decided to instead pursue an instrument she could not make even the slightest whisper. This decision put Shannon’s life onto a new path, and transformed her into a dedicated musical artist. Shannon is currently based in London, Ontario and freelances in Southern Ontario. An advocate for contemporary music, Shannon is always exploring ways to push the boundaries of the flute, and is committed to bringing new and exciting repertoire to her audiences while on a quest to make music accessible. Shannon has a special interest in the integration of music, visuals, and electronics, which led her to her multimedia project, colour. Starting off as an idea for a small art gallery installation, colour grew into an ongoing project of compositions and improvisations integrated with visual art to create multimedia works for flute and electronics based on her exploration and experiences with grapheme-colour synaesthesia.
12 February, 4pm Hilary Abigana & Movement as a Flutist!
Hilary Abigana will lead us through a super fun and playful workshop about moving with the flute and feeling comfy in our bodies when we do it.
Hilary Abigana is a founding member and flutist for the hybrid arts ensemble, The Fourth Wall. Praised by The Wall Street Journal for their “deft choreography,” The Fourth Wall explores a new hybrid of the performing arts in which musicians are also dancers and actors. Stretching the boundaries of instrumental performance, The Fourth Wall commissions new interdisciplinary works and reinterprets established repertoire to make music that leaps off the stage. In 2017, they made their Off-Broadway debut at the SoHo Playhouse after completing a three-month long tour along the fringe festival circuit in North America with their multi-award winning neo-vaudeville variety show, Fruit Flies Like a Banana. In addition to performing hybrid arts shows, The Fourth Wall travels all over the continent conducting workshops in the basics of this genre, and encouraging participants to utilize music, dance and theater techniques in their performances.
6 March, 3pm Alexa Tarantino & Jazz flute
Come prepared to get playful and experiment with jazz and improv!
“[Alexa is] a one-woman wrecking crew, […] an indomitable force for expression, education, and absolute excellence.” - Wynton Marsalis, Managing and Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center Alexa Tarantino is an award-winning, vibrant, young jazz saxophonist, woodwind doubler, composer, and educator. Alexa’s “high-octane [performance]” (Jazziz Magazine) and “sharply plotted but gracefully unencumbered straight-ahead jazz [compositions]” (The New York Times) establish her individual voice which shines through as a dynamic performer and educator. Tarantino was recently named one of the “Top 5 Alto Saxophonists of 2019” by the JazzTimes Critics’ Poll and nominated as a “Rising Star - Alto Saxophone” by Downbeat Magazine’s 2021 and 2020 Critics’ Poll.