Recorder Boost
Massry Center at The College of St. Rose, 1002 Madison Ave, Albany, NY 12208
This workshop will feature ideas for helping emerging recorder players, targeting finger dexterity and oral articulation. Recorder will be featured in various playing and movement activities for grades 3 - 5.
Anna Marie Spallina is the music teacher at PS 163 in New York where she teaches grades Pre-K through 5th grade general music, chorus, guitar class, and percussion ensemble. She received her Orff certification from the New England Conservatory in Boston and has further studied Orff Schulwerk in Salzburg, Austria and Urbino, Italy. In 1990, she was awarded a Keetman grant to study Orff Schulwerk in Assisi, Italy.
Anna has been a music teacher at public and private schools since 1983. She has taught Orff Teacher Training courses at the Bloomingdale School of Music in New York City, College of St. Rose in Albany, New York; University of Rhode Island, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana/ Perdue at Ft. Wayne, and New York University. Anna was a contributor to the McGraw-Hill “Share the Music” series in 1993. She has also published an article in K-8 magazine in 2006
