Selecting String Orchestra Repertoire

- During this panel presentation, composer/educators Deborah Baker Monday, Brian Balmages, and Bob Phillips will speak candidly about the creative process. Questions include commissioning, writing for various grade levels, and what makes a great piece. Each panelist will also tell us what their most influential string pieces have been for them as a composer and as an educator; and what their favorite pieces are for beginning, intermediate and high school groups as well as guest conducting pieces.
- Deborah Baker Monday (dbmonday@comcast.net)
- 12/21/2017 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
- Meeting Room W186
- Recently retired from teaching in the Logan City School District Orchestra Program, Deborah worked with 4th through 8th grade students in seven schools. A cello/bass specialist, she received her B.M.E. from Florida State University with an emphasis in strings and an M.M. in composition from the University of Alabama. She began working on a D.M.A. in composition at Louisiana State University while teaching in Baton Rouge.
Deborah is an active bass performer and private teacher. She has served as adjunct bass instructor at Utah State University for several years and has been on the faculty of the ASTA with NSOA "Bass Fest" for three years.
Ms. Monday has published a number of pieces for string orchestra with several leading educational music publishers. She co-authored the "Strings Extraordinaire" collection and has presented various clinics at Music Educators' Conferences. In 1999 she was named the Utah ASTA with NSOA Elementary Teacher of the Year.