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July 29-Aug. 1 2010

Parsippany, NJ

What's Happening:
	Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Concerts
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Thursday Specials
	Lever Harp Teacher's Symposium
	Creative Marketing Strategies
	Celtic kick-off
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	By title: A-D By title: E-K By title: L-O By title: P-S By title: T-Z
Workshop Focus Areas
Accompaniment & Arranging Beginners Body & Harp Business of Harping Celtic CEUs for MHTP Church Music Ensemble Historic Harp & Early Music Lectures Paraguayan Harp & Latin Music Skills & Technique Teaching Harp Therapeutic Harp
Schedule downloads (updated 7/9/10)
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Other Great Stuff
	Astral Harp Experience
	The Carolan Marathon
	Harp Corral
	Harp Pool Loaner Program
	Harp Regulation
	Jams
	Friday Renaissance Ball
	Saturday Banquet
	Private Lessons?

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Thursday Special: Teacher's Focus Area

Lever Harp Teacher's Symposium: 9am-5pm

Narrow Your Focus, Expand Your Horizon

Sharon Knowles raypool Second great year! New Agenda. Students have diverse learning styles and harp teachers need to have flexible, adaptable teaching methods that address their students' needs. Whether you are an experienced teacher or starting to think of opening a teaching studio, this one-day seminar is sure to provide useful information you can use in real-life typical teaching situations. Sharon Knowles and Ray Pool will facilitate this day-long discussion and represent two different, yet complimentary, styles of teaching. Whether you currently work exclusively from sheet music or teach by ear, there's something for everybody.

Agenda
Course Materials include resources. We'll also help you narrow your focus by providing a guide to other workshops at the festival that tie in to the seminar material. Teacher Directory: If you would like to be listed in our festival program as a teacher, please email us to let us know. It's complimentary for festival attendees. Can't attend but want to get listed? See below.	MORNING Teacher and Student Self Assessment: Evaluate your teaching abilities by being honest about your abilities, likes and dislikes. How to evaluate new students', their skills, temperament, goals and their relevant musical background. We'll talk about how learning the harp can be physical, mental and social therapy for students with disabilities. We will discuss learning styles and student expectations. Developing Lesson Plans Based on Student Needs: Learn how to develop a basic lesson plan that you can adapt for each student. We'll present some ideas on developing a plan for teaching improvisation and accompaniment. This segment will include an open forum and discussion. AFTERNOON Fundamental Technique: Good technique is essential no matter what style of music your student wants to play. How you play effects the sound you make. Learn how to put this across to your students. Playing by ear: . Sharon will cover the merits of learning by ear, especially for traditional music genres. You'll learn essential tips for teaching in this style and what you need to do to develop your own skill at doing this. Music reading: Ray will coach you through teaching sight-reading and developing music reading skills for your students who are visual learners. The Business Side of Teaching & Developing Your Studio: Topics that will be covered include: student contracts, insurance, marketing your studio and getting more students. This is a "how to" discussion on building your studio and we'll garner tips from participants on what works for them in their region.
Advance Registration required for this seminar. Absolutely no walk-ins. Cost: an added $25 on top of a full festival or single-day (Thurs.) registration. Includes a working lunch and extensive course resource booklet

Teachers Focus Area

We have so much material we couldn't squeeze into our All-Day Teacher's Symposium. Whether or not you're attending the Teacher's Symposium, these additional workshops will assist teachers and woud-be teachers.

Friday
Time	Workshop Title	Presenter	Level
9:30am	Develop & Improve your sight-reading skills	Stephanie Curcio	Any
1:30pm	Teaching Students with Disabilities	Chris Cotruvo	Any
3:30pm	Time-saving Tuning Techniques & Tips	Ray Pool	Any
Saturday
9:30am	Sit up straight!	Ellen Tepper	Any
9:30am	Suzuki Method for Harp	Candyce Dunham	Any
1:30pm	Harp hieroglyphics--music reading 201	Stephanie Curcio	Any
1:30pm	Stepping Stones to Building a Teaching Repertoire	Ray Pool	Any
3:30pm	Playing Well with Others: Suzuki Harp Ensemble	Candyce Dunham	Any
Sunday
9:00am	Novice's Introduction to Harp	Christina Tourin	Beg. players but any teacher

Teacher Directory:
A Teacher Directory will be included in our special 10th anniversary edition of the festival guide, which every festival attendee will receive. Teacher's attending the festival can get a complimentary listing in the directory. Just let us know you want to be listed by either writing it on your festival registration or emailing us.
Teacher's Not Attending the Festival: Mail your $10 check payable to Somerset Harp Festival to 11 Country Lane, Voorhees, NJ 08043 and include your contact information in the format shown below.
Deadline: June 30
Format: The listings will be aggregated by State in the following format:
Name
City, State
Phone
Email address

Prospective Exhibitors and Sponsors for Somerset 2010
may contact Kathy at 856-795-7637.