I am a Senior Lecturer with a three quarter time appointment. My responsibilities include teaching classical guitar in the studio and in chamber settings, and teaching other courses when the need is there. I have taught the following courses since my appointment at Wake Forest:
My principal objective as a teacher is to teach students how to become their own best teachers. To instill in them a sense of wonder and curiosity that will carry on forever.
The most difficult task in
Applied Music teaching is documenting what we do with each student in the course
of a semester. Music teaching is an art that deals with many variables. These
variables make evaluations of students very hard. My approach is to treat each
student as an individual. I set specific goals determined by me and the
student at the beginning of each semester and assignments are tapered to the
student needs.
In other courses I favor collaborative projects that include the uses of technology, like student-authored publications that build on knowledge beyond the classroom. I develop an interplay between process and product, collaborative inquiry and networking, built on ideas of cycles or products and process rathen than the linear line of traditional scholarship.
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I have worked with internationally acclaimed artists in my field and frequently bring visiting artists to work with my students. I am involved in the Cincinnati Classical Guitar Workshop headed by Clare Callahan at UC, where I have a chance to perform with other colleagues and work with studetns of all ages, pluse present topics I have developed over the years.
The information technology area facinates me and I am constantly developing multimedia presentations on a variety of topics. I am presently working on developing lectures for teaching Guitar Histoy and Literature, covering music from the Rennaisance to the present. The site is password protected until the end of June 2006. Collaborators include colleages from other universities and students. I am presently teaching the course at the North Carolina School of the Arts, my alma matter.
I also belong to the following professional organizations and attend conferences when offered: The Guitar Foundation of America, The American String Teachers Association and The American Association of University Professors.
PRESENTATIONS
I am available for
concerts, master classes, workshops in guitar and lecture/presentations.
My areas of expertise are Latin American Music, Music of Protest in the
Americas, Latin American guitar repertoire, folk and classical, and interdisciplinary
programs.
I use multi-media technology
to present topics of interest, and compliment my lectures with performances
of classical and folk music from the guitar repertoire.
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