Today we are at Marie's studio called Excellent Music located at Kebun Jeruk. Her studio is quite nicely decorated with the blue clouds painted on the ceiling of her studio. We arrived at her studio early and already coffee was already ready and waiting for us.
So we downed our coffee and some light snacks and started with the teachers' workshop she had arranged for Wilson. As usual some of the teachers had prepared pieces from Christopher Norton's Concert Collection to perform for us.
After the performances, Wilson proceeded with the workshop to work on chords and adding tensions to chords and how to apply chords to a piece of music. Teachers were divided into groups of around 4 to work together on a set piece which they were allocated.
Interactive is the word and after you had the theory down, you need to put it into practice so as to be able to hear how it will sound. Here the teachers are playing out what they have written in order to hear how it sounds.
The whoe workshop went until lunch time and after we came back from lunch for the summing up there was another group photo session to remember this workshop.
Later in the afternoon, we had the participants for the MPA session. As usual the young little performers stepped up to the grand piano to perform their piece. It was a very good afternoon of music and to see some of these little kids performing for the first time in a public event was quite exciting. After the performances, each child was presented with their follow-up books and you could see that they were certainly looking forward to it.
After we were done with the little children, it was time for the older kids to show their stuff, and they were certainly good. They performed quite well and we all had quite an enjoyable afternoon of good music by these children. At the end, they each received a certificate of participation for their effort.
Of course, every time when Wilson is giving a workshop at Marie's studio, he has a very loyal fan in the most distinguished Ibu Latiffah, a very prominent music educator and writer for music education books.
She has always attended Wilson's workshops and she is a very open-minded person who believes strongly that music is a never ending learning journey.
Well, Ibu Latiffah, we wish you all the very best!!!!
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