Call for Proposals: Community Engagement Grant for the UMN School of Music

The Community Engagement Leadership Team (CELT) calling for proposals for grant funding to support projects that integrate community engagement into the curriculum, creative activities, and research of the School of Music. Projects can be student generated, faculty generated, or (ideally) collaboratively designed. All ideas are welcome. The CELT will assist with refining ideas you might have.

Each proposed project is eligible for up to $500 in support for travel, expenses, and equipment necessary for the successful implementation of the project. Projects will be assessed according to how well the following questions are addressed.

* How does this project use community engagement to contribute to the stated mission of the School of Music?
* How does this project impact the curriculum in the School of Music? The committee is especially interested projects that enhance learning and teaching opportunities for members of the School of Music community.
* What will "success" look like for this project?
* How will that success be assessed? Assessment can include measurement or narrative. We just want to know how you will know that the program has been successful and how you will evaluate the success.
* What are the benefits to the various constituencies involved in the project: students, faculty, and community partners? Of importance in assessing this category are the concepts of mutual contribution and mutual gain.
* How could this project serve as a model to others interested in community engaged scholarship and teaching?
* To what degree is this project sustainable?

Please use the form, Community Engagement Grant Application, which can be found on the Engagement page of the SOM website.

If you have any questions, please contact any member of the Community Engagement Leadership Team or Team Leader, Keitha Hamann.

Rococo Duo Tours MN!

Scotty Horey, percussion, and Jennifer Hanson, are passionate about taking their unique and successful ensemble into various communities. They worked with music educators in remote high schools and colleges in Minnesota to provide masterclasses and recitals tailored to the needs of the community. This September, Scotty and Jennifer will perform exciting duo works by Engebretson, Lorenz, Piazzola, and U of M student composer Brett Wartchow, as well as teach and discuss music with high school and college students at each location. Find tour dates: 9-19 Rococo Duo.pdf.

We're in the Schools!

School of Music faculty and students are frequently engaging in K12 music programs, delivering master classes and clinics for music students throughout the state, and we're looking forward to many more collaborations this upcoming year. Beginning this Fall, Professor Tom Ashworth will be giving low-brass and jazz band clinics for area high school bands, and come Spring these visits will include his student group, the University of Minnesota Trombone Choir. To bring one of these clinics and concerts to your high school, contact mnmusic@umn.edu. Professor Ashworth will emphasize the many opportunities students will have as both music majors and non-music majors at large public university.

Here are just a couple of the highlights of faculty engagement with the schools from 2010-2011:

• Associate Director of Bands, Jerry Luckhardt and the University Wind, Symphonic, and Campus Bands rehearsed, dined, and performed alongside the Hastings High School Band. Thank you, Band and Band Boosters, for the great hospitality!


• Dr. Laura Sindberg's Music Ed students helped 5th and 6th graders pick out their band and orchestra instruments at the Wayzata Public Schools Instrument Recruitment Night.

A Therapeutic Waiting Room

Music Therapy faculty member, Michael Silverman, sends our therapy program's guitar and doctoral students to Minneapolis' Mill City Clinic and Boynton Student Health Care Center to provide live music in the waiting room. The Mill City Clinic is led by the U's own Jon Hallberg, and is dedicated to a healthy community, innovative medicine and excellence in health care. This engagement opportunity is based from positive data of a research study conducted by Dr. Silverman and Dr. Gary Christenson (head psychiatrist at Boynton Health Center).

On-Campus Clinic

Did you know that we have a music therapy clinic right in the School of Music's own Ferguson Hall? People of various ages and with various special needs from the Twin Cities community receive therapy at this clinic. There is also an observation room for our students, which makes the clinic an invaluable educational experience along-side the therapeutic services offered. Click here to learn more about our Music Therapy program.

Minneapolis Public Schools Does Jazz

Recently, voice faculty member Wendy Zaro-Mullins worked with students from Marcy School through an artistic partnership with the School district's Viva City Arts Festival. Prof. Zaro-Mullins worked with them on two standards and taught scatting, vocal, breathing, performance, relaxation techniques and more. She also guest presented to entire student body of Viva City Festival performers on preparing for a career in music and expectations for a college/conservatory entrance audition. Read more about the Viva City Arts Festival.