Join us for a FREE Low Brass Clinic with Tom Ashworth, Professor of Trombone at the University of Minnesota School of Music. He’ll share career experiences and explore the “Fundamentals of Low Brass Teaching and Performance”.
Topics include posture/fitness, breathing, inhalation, exhalation, embouchure, note-shapes and stability, mouthpiece buzzing, tone, intonation, technique, flexibility/lip slurs, tonguing/articulation/diction and more fundamentals.
Saturday, March 31 at 2pm, Schmitt Music Edina
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Join Shannon Jansma, Schmitt Music Orchestra Specialist, for a BOW DEMO at the new Schmitt Music Edina store!
Arcos Brasil is recognized internationally as the premier company for quality and value in the stringed instrument trade. Shannon will show you how to match a bow to your instrument, determine a proper price range, decide between wood and synthetic materials, and evaluate bow construction. Try a great selection of bows!
Saturday, March 17 at 3:00pm, Schmitt Music Edina
As a string player advances, there comes a point where buying a bow separate from an instrument is necessary. Learn everything that goes into bow selection, and get all of your string instrument questions answered by our orchestra expert. Help us celebrate our new Edina store, and don’t miss this free ‘Grand Opening’ event!
We’re celebrating with big sales and great workshops, demos and in-store concert events!
CLICK HERE to view all of the Grand Opening Sales and Events! Help us celebrate! Attend our free events at the new store, and check out great savings at every Schmitt Music location.
Be sure to visit the new store in Southdale Square, at the intersection of 66th St. West and Xerxes Ave, next to Pier One Import and ABC/Toyzone stores. Click here for store details.
This workshop will feature original music and other instructional materials to invigorate your teaching. Topics include teaching teenagers, teaching composition, as well as solos, duets, trios and more!
A composer, arranger, clinician and teacher, Melody Bober enjoys creating motivational piano pieces that foster her students’ understanding and love of music. She holds music degrees from the University of Illinois-Urbana and Minnesota State University. Melody’s dynamic sessions are enriched by her experience as a studio owner, classroom teacher and church musician.
Wynn-Anne Rossi is a nationally acclaimed composer and dynamic educator whose works have reached audiences throughout the United States, Europe, Iceland and Australia. Rossi specializes in composition residencies in public schools, sponsored by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and other professional arts organizations. Special commissions include orchestral and band works inspired by student musical ideas. Her passion for promoting creativity in young musicians reflects in her choice of publications with Alfred, including her series Creative Composition Toolbox.
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Join us for a special Grand Opening event at the new Schmitt Music Edina store!
Members of the Minnesota Concert Opera will perform on Thursday, March 1st at 7:00PM. This FREE performance will include arias, duets, and even a little musical theater!
Dr. Christos Tsitsaros is Professor of Piano Pedagogy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to moving to the United States, Dr. Tsitsaros studied in Poland (Frédéric Chopin Academy of Warsaw) and France, where he obtained the Diplôme Supérieur d’Exécution from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with distinction. He continued his musical studies at the School of Music of Indiana University (M.M, Artist Diploma 1986)) and later at the University of Illinois (DMA in Piano Performance, 1993). Dr. Tsitsaros is active both as a pianist and composer. His educational piano works that have been included in examinations for the Music Teacher National Association, the National Federation of Music Clubs, and the Royal Conservatory of Canada. In addition, he is an editor and recording artist for the G. Schirmer Performance editions specializing in the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Four individual solo albums of his original music appear under the Centaur label.
He frequently appears in workshops and conferences as a performer and lecturer in the United States, Russia, and Canada.
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Carolyn Miller holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and a Master of Elementary Education degree from Xavier University. She has taught piano to students of all ages for many years, both privately and in the classroom. She also regularly presents workshops throughout the United States and is often asked to adjudicate at music festivals and competitions. Carolyn’s music teaches essential technical skills, is remarkably fun to play, and appeals to both children and adults. Many of her compositions appear on contest lists, including the NFMC Festivals Bulletin. Well-known television personality Regis Philbin performed her “Rolling River” and “Fireflies” in 1992 and 1993 on national television. In her church, Carolyn directs a large choir and plays piano for special services. She enjoys spending time with her family and especially her seven grandchildren, for whom she has composed seven solos.
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Schmitt Music Edina is now open at our brand new Southdale Square location!
We’ve moved from our long-time store in The Galleria, and are now located in Southdale Square – just northeast of Southdale Mall, at the intersection of 66th St. and Xerxes Avenue.
Visit us today and find a great selection of pianos and keyboards, band and orchestra instruments, printed music and more! Come see our spacious new store featuring huge acoustic and digital piano rooms, dedicated band and orchestra shops, over 25 lesson studios, a great new auditorium, repair shop, and huge print music area.
Please excuse our mess as we put the finishing touches on the new store. The new Schmitt Music Edina is located at 2906 West 66th St., Edina, MN 55423 – right next to Pier One Imports and ABC/Toy Zone stores.
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Join us for a FREE live performance by the Dave Milne Quartet at the grand opening of our Vandoren Trial Center. Try out the latest Vandoren reeds and mouthpieces for Clarinets and Saxophones.
Join us for a FREE Low Brass Clinic with Tom Ashworth, Professor of Trombone at the University of Minnesota School of Music. He’ll share career experiences and explore the “Fundamentals of Low Brass Teaching and Performance”.
