Contact Info

Email andrea.schofie@gmail.com

Saturday 15 September 2012

Time Change

Beginners will meet at 1:00.
Intermediate students will meet at 2:00.

Monday 10 September 2012

Off we go!!

Concert Band starts this week! Returning students, I look forward to seeing you with your instruments ready to go at 1:00. New students, please come at 2:00 for a start-up meeting. If you already have an instrument and want me to check it out, you may bring it along. If you don't know what to play, come on out without and I'll help you decide :-)

Sunday 26 August 2012

Registration for the 2012-2013 School Year

Joyful Sounds Music Studio is now accepting registrations for beginner and intermediate homeschool band.

We meet at 3108, Hwy#2 in Fall River on Wednesday afternoons beginning September 12.  Returning or experienced players will meet from 1:00-1:45, and beginning students will meet from 2:00-2:45.  The first day of beginning band will be an information meeting to answer questions and to help determine which instrument would be best for each student.

Instruments include: flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, baritone, trombone and percussion.  The cost per class is $8, to be paid in monthly installations September through May.  Families are responsible for providing an instrument, stand, and method book.

To register, or for more information, please visit the "Joyful Sounds Music Studio" website http://musikwithlouise.yourvirtuoso.com/components/CourseInfo.html?curriculumId=21413
You may also send an email message to Andrea Schofield at andrea.schofie@gmail.com

I look forward to hearing from you soon!

Wednesday 6 June 2012

Blessed Beyond Measure

I am indescribably proud of the band's performance at our studio recital last night.  Everyone looked professional, behaved with great respect for other performers, arrived on time, came to the front without prompting when it was our turn, was very focused...and gave an outstanding performance of our pieces!  That was absolutely the best playing I have heard from this group, and possibly from any beginner band.  

This first year with JSCB has been an immensely rewarding experience for me.  My passion for band, which had been laying dormant for a few years, has been not only rekindled, but fanned into a roaring bonfire. I feel a rush of excitement when a band member "nails" a part with which he or she has been struggling.  I love the music and the satisfaction and beauty of transforming the initial cacophony into structure and harmony. 

More than that, I have met new people who I now consider dear friends.  I delight in getting to know the personality of each band member.  I appreciate their respect for each other and for me, their diligence, and their encouragement of each other.  I am honoured and blessed by the times parents have brought me a cup of coffee or a loaf of warm homemade bread, looked after my younger children during or after rehearsal, accompanied us on piano, taken an active role in their children's practising, or have expressed appreciation through kind words and gifts.

All of this--the music and everything that flows out of our common goal and stretches beyond--this is community. Just as every line in a composition is vital to the integrity of the piece, so every person in the band is integral to its success.  Perhaps that is what I love most about music: the community it symbolizes, the community it requires, and the community it creates.

Monday 30 April 2012

June Recital

We will be playing at the Joyful Sounds year-end recital on Tuesday, June 5 at the Gordon Snow Community Centre in Fall River.  I am already excited for what will surely be a great evening!  The teachers are even working on a fun little surprise...

Homeschool Conference

Watch for us at the HEMS Conference June 8 & 9 in Lake Echo!

Sunday 1 January 2012

Time to Register!

Joyful Sounds Music Studio is now accepting registration for a 15-week concert band session beginning Wednesday, January 11. For more information, send me a message, or please visit http://musikwithlouise.yourvirtuoso.com/Classes.html