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
End Times
During the summer of 2015, while attending Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas; I witnessed an incredible five-sermon series given by Pastor Jimmy Evans regarding the 2nd coming of Christ. After hearing his thought-provoking insights into the future final events of human history, I chose to create a musical work to both depict these events and satisfy the Master's Thesis requirement for my M.M. in Composition at Texas Christian University.
Etch-A-Sketch
Etch-A-Sketch: The benefit of collaboration within the compositional process is the 3rd place winner in the Graduate Division of the Texas Music Educators Association's 2016 Essay Contest for College Students! The article features conversations with the late Dr. David Maslanka, Dr. Frank Ticheli and Mr. William Owens.
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.