“Using Improvisation in Your Classroom”

“Between your students and the world: Creating Community Engagement that Sustains”

This presentation from the 2019 El Sistema USA National Symposium was led by Lydia Veilleux, Jody Rajesh, and Natalie Conover (Trenton Music Makers)

About the session:

This session will demonstrate easy improvisation exercises that can be applied to any repertoire with the goals of increasing student engagement and fostering creative youth voice in the classroom. This session is geared towards Classically-trained teaching artists with little, or no improvisation experience and participants are encouraged to bring instruments.

About the resource:

This resource includes the following:

• Sample lead sheets to be used in your classroom