Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally renowned summer arts day camp, has long presented unique summer workshops on the latest techniques for arts educators. This summer, Usdan presented "Finale: A Vibrant Tool For Today's Music Educators" at the Center's 200-acre Long Island campus. Certified Finale clinician David Dolgon taught the workshops, which covered the notation and composition program that is the industry standard in music notation software, enabling composers, arrangers, musicians, teachers, students and publishers to create, edit, audition, print and publish musical scores.
Dolgon is a clinician for MakeMusic!, the creators of Finale. He has presented staff development workshops for the NY State Council of Administrators of Music Education, school districts and county organizations, in addition to teaching both graduate courses and music theory to high school students.
Usdan Center has introduced the arts, nature and ecology, and chess to more than 60,000 students ages 6 to 18 in its 46-year history. It presented the first New York State-wide Music Educator Technology Conference on Long Island and originated Long Island's first Canadian Brass summer workshops, attended by music educators from across the country. Other workshops have covered "Differentiated Instruction and Rubrics" and "Choral Conducting: Connecting Music and Literacy," taught by distinguished vocal music educators. The Center has also offered workshops for dance teachers in ballet and jazz techniques.
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts is open to all young people ages 6-18. No audition is needed for most programs - rather, admission is based on an expression of interest in the arts. Each summer, 1,500 students are transported to the Center in air-conditioned buses each day. One-third of Usdan's students attend on scholarship. Although the mission of the Center is for every child to establish a relationship with the arts, the unique stimulation of the Center has caused many to go on to arts careers. Alumni include members of musicians, singers, actors and dancers that have achieved worldwide renown. #
For more information, write to info@usdan.com. Call (212) 772-6060 or (631) 643-7900, or visit www.usdan.com.
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