Today’s episode of Ministry Monday is sponsored by the 2022 Winter Colloquium, taking place February 14-16 in Nashville, Tennessee. NPM Presents Open Hearts and Minds: Intercultural Mystagogia for Pastoral Leaders, a 3-day event focusing on looking through the lens of interculturalism. How can we best celebrate our differences to create unity in diversity through the experience of community of prayer?
Learn more about the Winter Colloquium at npm.org.
Today continues our series on continuing education. There are many music degrees available across the country at respected colleges, but what about music ministry-specific degrees? How can we combine the experience of a college education with high-level musical, theological and liturgical educations as well? Today on the podcast I discuss the unveiling of a brand-new program available at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The program, built for an undergraduate program, seeks to provide a realistic education for today’s music minister.
Today I sit down with Dr. Stephen Benham to discuss this brand new program. Dr. Benham is a professor of Music Education at Duquesne University and a sacred musician himself. He joins us today from his office in Pittsburgh.
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Bio - Dr. Stephen Benham
Dr. Stephen Benham is Professor of Music Education at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA). Dr. Benham is an internationally-acclaimed clinician, speaker, consultant, and conductor with expertise in pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, teacher education, and new program development.
His work has been featured in numerous international research seminars and conferences including ASTA, NAfME, and the Society for Ethnomusicology. Dr. Benham is:
the author of: Yes You Can! A Survival Guide for Teaching Strings Teaching Strings
co-author of Sound Innovations: Creative Warm-ups—Exercises for Intonation, Rhythm, Bowing, and Creativity
and lead author of the ASTA String Curriculum: Standards, Goals, Learning Sequences for Essential Skills and Knowledge in K–12 String Programs.
He’s written multiple articles on topics in music education ranging from string pedagogy to teaching students with disabilities in leading journals and research publications.
Dr. Benham is an active consultant in the development of new music programs in communities without current string programs across the US, in addition to providing expertise to music education projects in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. He is an internationally-recognized leader having served in board positions with major non-profit associations and organizations, including president of the American String Teachers Association.
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