HALEY WOODROW
COMPOSER, ARRANGER, EDUCATOR
HALEY WOODROW
COMPOSER, ARRANGER, EDUCATOR
Creating Composers Clinics
This 90 minute Creating Composers Clinic is designed to introduce the principles of composition to band students, as well as give them the opportunity to act as composers by customizing In Two Places for performance. Students will learn how to analyze and describe structural functions in music composition with vocabulary words such as exposition, form and closure. They will also learn to perceive pacing, structure and the storytelling aspect of music, as well as become more aware of how compositional choices affects listeners. Other outcomes include increased familiarity with ranges and orchestrational considerations, and a hands-on approach to assigning melody and balancing the ensemble for performance.
Education Articles
Chamber Music Composition Program at Tarrant County College
This summer 2020, we are excited to offer the third annual Chamber Music Composition Program, hosted at the Tarrant County College Northeast campus with Mid Cities Brass Quintet. Both myself and Dr. Uriah Rinzel will be returning as the Composition Faculty! As of this writing, COVID-19 is currently a global pandemic, significantly effecting all of our daily lives with most counties in the U.S. under a shelter in place order. Our program this year will therefore be a "pandemic" themed program and will proceed on-ground or completely online, depending on the mandates set forth by the state.
A New Day
In response to COVID-19, I have created music for band students to play at home! I have taken the melody and "fun lines" from my "A New Day", pasted them all into one part and then copied the music for all instruments. Also included are accompaniment tracks to play along to! Please feel free to embed in LMS systems such as Blackboard and Canvas. And if your students enjoy the music, please consider purchasing and programming from this website for the 2020-2021 school year! I do accept Purchase Orders.
2020 Florida Music Educators Association Conference
What a great way to start the year! I was commissioned to write a work for the Florida Middle School All State Band, and attended the premiere at the 2020 Florida Music Educators Association Convention in Tampa.
Past Projects
My inaugural run of my eight-session “Creating Composers Clinic” served to introduce the principles of composition to a group of 8th grade students at Hillwood Middle School in Keller ISD. Throughout the eight weekly sessions, the students and I composed a collaborative composition for Saxophone Quartet, which was comprised, premiered and recorded by a group of their peers. We even teamed up with HMS Audio/Visual club to create a “music video” of the piece, which earned a finalist position in the 2017 Keller ISD Film Festival. In this video, each workshop participant’s picture is displayed, with the audio of their contribution playing underneath. The second half of the video features the entire composition, performed by the HMS Saxophone Quartet.