On December 12th 2013, The Utah State Office of Education released the results of its Fall 2013 Instructional Materials Review and Consonus Music Institute’s Guitar Fundamentals – Beginning Course was given the highest adoption recommendation of Primary Curriculum by the review commission. As a Primary Curriculum teachers in Utah public schools may adopt the CMI Read the Rest…
CMI presents at Association for Middle Level Education 2013
CMI will present a session on Blended Learning in Instrumental Music at the Association for Middle Level Education 2013 Conference on November 8th in Minneapolis. Mike Christiansen will conduct the session. He will discuss what some of the trends in K-12 music education which are driving the need for additional instrumental music options utilizing technology Read the Rest…
CMI Partners with Hard Rock Café and Fender Music Foundation
On August 9th Consonus Music Institute clinicians Mike Christiansen and Abe Lagrimas, Jr. traveled to Springfield Massachusetts to be part of a new event that may be coming to your community in the future. The event was a 2 day music workshop sponsored by the Hard Rock Café and the Fender Music Foundation that brings Read the Rest…
CMI Presents at Texas Bandmaster’s Conference July 23rd in San Antonio
Consonus Music Institute’s Director of Curriculum Development Mike Christiansen will be presenting a clinic at the 2013 Texas Bandmasters Association Conference on 21st Century Classroom Guitar Instruction. This presentation will cover key information for every music teacher who either currently teaches or is considering teaching classroom guitar. Topics will range from How To Establish a Read the Rest…
Utah CMI Professional Development Workshops Well Received
June 13, 2013 – Consonus Music Institute’s lead instructor, Michael Christiansen, a master teacher, one of the world’s foremost experts in classroom guitar pedagogy, and gifted musician, recently presented professional development workshops to music educators in the Salt Lake, Nebo, and Granite, Utah school districts. His presentation showed how, by combining time-tested classroom instruction and Read the Rest…
