Christina Landolt has experience teaching music in the classroom, performance ensembles and private lessons. Her own musical practice involves composing, conducting, improvising, and practicing her instruments. Christina teaches conducting through a composer's lens; as an instrumentalist, she composes with performance in mind; as an instrumental teacher, she harnesses the techniques she has developed while learning instruments herself. She believes performances should have life. She believes in large gestures, sweeping motion, that the best art has an natural energy, all of which can be seen in the way she conducts, the strokes she uses in her visual art, and the freedom she experiences in her compositional process. She loves teaching music to absolute beginners, embracing the precious opportunity that exists in those first interactions with music making. Christina embraces a relatively informal approach with students, one where comfort and security allow a student to flourish. She believes that a student is most likely to succeed when they are taught to believe in their own potential.
Christina has taught courses in basic to advanced music theory, music appreciation, and film scoring. She recently began developing a course focused on how hip hop and rap can express shared Black experiences in a way that has the potential to impact the national dialogue about race. All of her teaching attempts to place specific musical skills, devices, and techniques into context historically and regionally. She has conducted string orchestras of various levels of skill and experience, as well as full symphony orchestras, coached chamber music groups (and performed with them), and taught private lessons in piano, cello, ukulele, composition, and conducting. She maintains a daily practice of improvising at the piano for 10-15 minutes each morning to keep alive the sense of "play" in her musical life. Her recent compositions include pieces for string ensemble, piano, choir, and full orchestra.
Christina has taught courses in basic to advanced music theory, music appreciation, and film scoring. She recently began developing a course focused on how hip hop and rap can express shared Black experiences in a way that has the potential to impact the national dialogue about race. All of her teaching attempts to place specific musical skills, devices, and techniques into context historically and regionally. She has conducted string orchestras of various levels of skill and experience, as well as full symphony orchestras, coached chamber music groups (and performed with them), and taught private lessons in piano, cello, ukulele, composition, and conducting. She maintains a daily practice of improvising at the piano for 10-15 minutes each morning to keep alive the sense of "play" in her musical life. Her recent compositions include pieces for string ensemble, piano, choir, and full orchestra.
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