WELCOME TO EDUCATION AND OUTREACH AT SOUNDSTREAMS!
Networking with you through music and our joy of music!
Soundstreams offers a wide range of education and community events.
Each season, Soundstreams shares unique musical resources with secondary, post-secondary and graduate students around the GTA and across Canada.
Soundstreams Education and Outreach Programs are:
- Workshops with International visiting artists for High School and University students
- Workshops with Canadian composers for High School students
- Pimooteewin workshops: Voice, Percussion, Dance and Storytelling workshops created based on Soundstreams' Cree opera Pimooteewin - The Journey, for any grade: K-12
- Young Artist Overture: Soundstreams' Young Artist Overture is a performance program showcasing exceptional emerging musicians. Soundstreams presents 3 YAO performance events per season.
- Composition Project for selected composition students from Universities across Canada
- Salon 21 at the Gardiner Museum for the general public
- Pre-show talks, an hour prior to Soundstreams' concerts at Koerner Hall
Composition Project Participants 2011
From left to right: James Rolfe (mentoring composer), composers Patrick Murray (U of T), Fiona Ryan (U of T), Kimberly Codner (McGill U), Michelle Psutka (Wilfrid Laurier U) and singers Amber Cunningham, Julia Barber, Eliza Johnson; Photo by Justin Ing
Pimooteewin Workshops: Dan Morphy from TorQ Percussion Quartet gave percussion workshops at Frankland Community School in February 2011.
Composition Workshops for High Schools: Andrew Staniland gave a composition workshop at Unionville High School in February 2011, here listening to one student's composition.
This season's special was the Family Day workshop at the Gardiner Museum led by Adam Campbell from TorQ Percussion Quartet.
This season Soundstreams created a special program for the YMCA Newcomer Youth Leadership Development Program Participants: MUSICC - Music to Understand Society, Involvement, Creation and Careers.
Adam Campbell from TorQ Percussion Quartet gives an introduction to Percussion with Found Objects.
Composition Project for Composition Students
Every year Soundstreams organizes a Composition Project involving 4 composition students from different universities across Canada. The project includes a virtual mentorship of 2 months and 3 days of presence and rehearsals in Toronto as well as a performance of the composed works.
Call for Submission for Soundstreams' Composition Project 2011-12
In Season 2011-12 we would like to find students who will
- Send in 1 of their chamber music compositions and CV (1-2 pages) asap, the latest by Sep 10, 2011 to leonieh@soundstreams.ca
- Email submissions only (PDF files of both score and CV / bio)
- Our mentoring composer will choose the participating students by reviewing these compositions. Students will be given notice by early October.
The selected students will:
- Write a Tango composition of 3 minutes
- For: violin, piano, bandoneon and bass
- Deadline for the draft composition to be sent to mentoring composer in order to get a first feedback: TBA
- Deadline for final composition to be sent in: TBA
- Students will have to be present in Toronto for 3 days: TBA
- Students will work with the mentoring composer and will rehearse with the musician during these days, schedule to be announced
- Performance of the works will take place at Soundstreams' Salon 21
- Soundstreams will pay for 50% of travel costs
- Soundstreams hopes that students have friends in Toronto to stay with. Please contact Soundstreams if you need accommodation for your stay in Toronto.
Learn more about In-school visits, Young Artist Overtures, composition projects.
Soundstreams also offers exciting FREE programs for the community.
Get to know Soundstreams' Salon 21, Soundstreams' workshops and Community Artist Overtures
Contact our Executive Director Jennifer Green at jenniferg@soundstreams.ca or call at 416-5041282.