Learning through Play: Games and resources for activities to reinforce skills and build audiation

with Janna Olson

Details

This webinar is a fun exploration of resources available to supplement Music Moves for Piano and keep an audiation focus in piano lessons. Marilyn Lowe developed a valuable collection of resources including motivational charts, flashcards and notational games and activities. Janna shares some of her favorite resources and lesson activities and games that build richness and motivation in lesson times.

Instructor: Janna Olson
Contents: This webinar includes a 60 minute presentation and 30 minute Q&A
Cost: $15

Meet the Presenter

Originally from Three Hills, Alberta, Janna Olson holds degrees in church music and piano performance and a Masters in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Alberta where she studied with Janet Scott-Hoyt. Performing, adjudicating, and giving workshops have provided diverse opportunities for her to share her love of music in Canada, the United States and Europe.

Janna currently resides in Edmonton teaching privately and as a sessional instructor at The King’s University. She has been using Music Moves for Piano in her studio for over 10 years. She is on the faculty of the Gordon Institute for Music Learning and is passionate about connecting piano pedagogy with recent research on how the musical mind works. She enjoys playing chamber music and frequently performs piano duet and duo repertoire as well as performances with string players. An outdoors enthusiast, Janna spends time hiking, skiing and most recently learning to speed skate.