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.
Karen Koger and Lane Champa, past and present Lead teachers of Play Us Forward-ProMusica Chamber Orchestra’s educational outreach, team up to present: “Inclusion, Multi-Culturalism, and Appreciation through String Music Education” November 4, 2023 at Eastman School of Music’s Context Conference ‘23 - Contextualizing Equity and Inclusion in Music as hosted by Crystal Battles. So excited.
My quartet, Allegro Quartet will be performing for Veterans in Phoenix during a parade. Veterans Day Celebration, arranged by me, and my own compositions: The Bold and The Brave, and Save and Serve Salute, will be performed for our brave heroes. I can’t wait to play for them.
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.
Michelle Mastin of Yellow Springs, OH is using a reading session of Karen Koger’s StringRiffs.com music as the Final for her Methods Class. Michelle may also gather some northern OH teachers for an adult, established teacher reading session this winter, too. Good luck students!
Excited to be assisted by Megan Wetzel of Megan’s Media Management for the second year in a row, at OMEA’s Music Convention in Columbus. StringRiffs may be represented in a reading session for this convention, fingers crossed.
February 2-3, 2024 StringRiffs.com will have a booth staffed by Katrina Becker and possibly assisted by Teresa Becker, while the owner of StringRiffs.com, Karen Koger, is “Booth”ing at OMEA. StringRiffs has Boothed at 8-10 of those amazing 85 years. Possible reading session of StringRiffs Hits and new 1, 2, 3 octave Minor Scale Sheets and […]
Karen Koger and her West Coast Rep, Katrina Becker, will be traveling to Louisville, KY for National ASTA Convention, Collocating with Suzuki Association of America. We may even have a reading session in addition to our String Riffs Booth. Keep your ears on and visit us in March, 2024.