Hope to see you and meet you at the Orchestral and chamber music reading bash. I am excited to share String Riffs with you after lunch, thanks to Trisha Emmons and Dan Clark. Ohio String Teachers Association 513-349-7588
Bellefontaine’s Laura Mitchell has each grade working on a String Riffs piece which will be shared with Karen Koger tomorrow. Students have composed music to share and Karen will be sharing her story regarding composition and publishing. This will be a wonderful day!
Learn about the String Riffs story plus composition and sight-reading with OSU’s Student Chapter of ASTA. Thanks to Alan of The Ohio State University for hosting!
Find String Riffs at the Indiana Music Education Association Professional Development Conference in Fort Wayne on Saturday, January 14, 2017. We’ll present “Change It Up” and we may have a booth that weekend – hope to meet you. The IMEA Professional Development Conference is the largest, more diverse professional development event for Indiana music educators. […]
String-A-Thon with String Riffs Thru String Riffs Volume Two and Jitter Puggle from String Riffs Volume Three, Karen will be overviewing Sight Reading from Two perspectives for Columbus Public School Orchestra students and CPS Teachers. Each student will take a piece with them and one teacher will take home a complete piece to try with […]
Karen Koger will present a session at The Ohio State University String Teacher Workshop called "String Riffs: From Self-Publishing to Hootenanny Promoting." From creating a new composition to promoting the end product, String Riffs composer Karen Koger explains how to create and market your own compositions and creations. Team-building, trial orchestras, editors, distributors, and more will […]
Jennifer Randle, my strings supervisor, asked if anyone wanted to present sessions for our music department. I volunteered to present Compose & Play concepts to fellow teachers and friends. I’ll let you know how it goes. the challenge will be to apply my concepts to our new competency requirements. It should adapt well.
So excited to meet Anne Tinklenberg-Peters’ cellists at Broadmor. They’re working on some of my favorite tunes, and we get to spend time playing cello. Thank you, Anne.
I thought I would just run down to Tucson for the Cello Congress 2023, and play with other cellists, meet some old friends and new, but Theodore Buchholz, Professor of Cello at U of A, invited me to bring down a String Riffs booth, they might play a couple of my cello ensembles (Wow!), and […]
Excited to attend 2023 U of A Cello Congress in many capacities: Cellist, Composer, and StringRiffs Rep. Many thanks to Professor Theodore Buchholz for the invite to participate and meet Tucson cellists.