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Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance Workshop

Date

June 16-June 18, 2025

Off Campus

Course Number

6395B

Credits

3

Tuition

$750

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Course Description

Registration for the ILCMP Summer Workshop is required. This workshop is led by Members of the Illinois Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance Committee.

This course will give music educators strategies and resources for more deeply connecting students with the music they perform. Emphasis will be placed on how to recognize and find quality repertoire (including by free and legal download), as well as how to make historically significant music exciting and relevant to students of all ages.

Using the five points of the CMP model as a springboard, students will participate in demonstration rehearsals, points of the model presentations, class discussions, and work in small group settings. By the end of the course, students will be expected to complete an in-depth CMP plan using the assigned format as well as develop and submit a reflective statement tied to the National Core Arts Standards for Music. Students who have taken a previous CMP Workshop will advance their skills in each area and focus on a new style of music than previously studied.
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Instructor

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Joe Koppel

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Joe Koppel serves as the Coordinator of MECA (Music Education Center for America) Continuing Education program at VanderCook College of Music.  Joe is a proud alumnus of VanderCook College of Music, graduating with his Masters Degree in Music Education in 2001.  Joe earned his Type 75 Administrative Certification from North Central College in 2008. 

Joe Koppel has been the Director of Bands at Jackson Middle School in Villa Park since 1998, teaching grades 4-8.  He directs the Jackson Area Preparatory and Intermediate Bands, the Jackson Concert and Symphonic Bands, and the Jackson Jazz Lab.  Under his direction, the Jackson Symphonic Band has consistently earned Division I ratings at District and State Level Contests.  In 2012 the Jackson Symphonic Band was chosen to perform at the prestigious University of Illinois SuperState Band Festival and in 2015 was designated ‘Honors’ Status at IGSMA State Festival.

Joe was chosen by his peers in 2023 as a Quinlan and Fabish Chicagoland Outstanding Music Educator (COMEA).  In addition, Joe earned the Cloyd Myers Memorial Award for outstanding service to the Illinois Grade School Music Association in 2023.  He currently serves as the IGSMA District VII CoChair and the ILMEA District 9 Jr. Band Representative.

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