Meet Me at the Symphony!
As an educator with eighteen years of experience and an orchestral performance background, I have a unique perspective. Not only do I love working with children but I’ve also had the privilege of playing with so many friends who make their living in professional orchestras.
When I took my first Orff course, I had the incredible realization that moving to a big orchestral piece had the potential to hold the same feeling (joy!) as playing a big orchestral piece.
It is my absolute passion to create opportunities for children to experience orchestral music through movement as I understand the incredible impact/power involved in their individual felt expression. And it is my absolute passion to encourage a future audience for live orchestral music. This is the foundation for my Meet Me at the Symphony program!
Please find workshop slides on the Work Samples page.
Cathy Charlton-Brennan
BMus McGill, MMus ASU, BEd U of A, Carl Orff Canada Level III
“Elemental music is never just music. It’s bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener but as a co-performer.” ~ Carl Orff (as quoted in Hamel 1979)