Educational Sessions
Programing for Community Band
Time: 9:15am
- Joe Frank, Plano Community Band, and Robin Owens, Richardson Community Band, lead a discussion on selecting music for your community band. Learn how to please an audience and grow your musicians at the same time.
Practice Techniques
Time: 9:15am
- Music educator and principal tuba of the Dallas Winds, Jason Wallace shares productive and entertaining ways to practice and keep improving as an adult musician. You might be practicing too much!
Technology and the Community Band
Time: 11:30 am
- Information technology leaders Jennnifer Breitzmann and Marilyn Woodruff show how the Plano Community Band is using different technologies to communicate with members, attract new players, and interact with its audience.
We’ve gone digital! Getting the Word Out
Time: 11:30 am
- Mike Guillory, DFW area marketing executive, explains how to build an audience without breaking the bank.
Don’t Be Square
Time: 1:45pm
- If Stockton Helbing is not playing the drum set, he is busy composing, arranging, producing, educating, recording, and leading musical groups. He is an adjunct professor of music at the University of North Texas and has performed recorded with Maynard Ferguson, Doc Severinson, and many others. He’s got great stories and will teach us how everyone can play jazz!
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