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In 2011, Peter Stoltzman is the Faculty Director of the Stanford Jazz Workshop's Jazz Camp. For more info, visit stanfordjazz.org.
Peter draws on 15 years of teaching experience, his work for Young Audiences and other community-based programs, his studies in Music in Education at New England Conservatory, and doctoral work in Music and Human Learning at the University of Texas, to tailor educational music programs and curricula.
Stoltzman designs his programs and classes to:
• Engage and inspire students with accessible, beautiful, and exciting music
• Encourage and facilitate direct participation in music-making through audience/class participation and discussion
• Catalyze intrinsic motivation with successful and meaningful musical experiences
• Illuminate key aspects of music making, including preparation, intention and attention, interaction, expressivity, and instrumental execution
• Address key aspects of life in the music industry, including flexibility, getting a day job (or not), dealing with success and failure, envisioning and setting goals
Teaching
• Big Band and Ensemble coaching
• Jazz History, Theory, Ear Training, and Improvisation
• "Intelligent Music Teaching" (Duke, 2005), and applications in Jazz Methodology and Pedagogy
• Master classes
• Private lessons
• Fundamentals of Music
• Keyboard lab
Consulting
• Integrate or refine the teaching of jazz and improvisation in your school or after-school program
• Optimize teaching practices based on cutting-edge understandings in human learning and music education
Concert/Educational Programs
• Concert setting performance for small or large audience
• Hybrid concert and educational program for large audience
• Performance-based educational programs for small groups
Jazz Literature Review
Check back in the year(s) ahead to find more excerpts of Peter's ongoing dissertation research