Friday, February 21, 2025
8:30am - 3:00pm
Longview Point Baptist Church
1100 McIngvale Rd, Hernando, MS 38632
Join us for this workshop sponsored by the MidSouth Music Institute in our efforts to support music education in our community.
Our 2025 presenter will be Dr. Carol Krueger. Stay tuned for more details on the schedule, presentation topics, and more!
Last year's presenters include Cody Parrot, Dr. Jennifer Campbell, Allen Sanders, Terrell Hall, Anna Fortenberry, and Kathrine Gaines. Bios for our presenters can be found on our staff page or posted below.
Click Here for 2024 Detailed Workshop Schedule
Lunch provided by Buon Cibo (orders taken in advance)
CEU credits will be available.
2024 Workshop Sessions:
"Improv Techniques for Elementary Students"
”But That’s Not What I Meant… Combining Great Leadership Skill and Specific Musical Intention to Create an Unstoppable Music Ensemble”
"Adapting Games for OTHER Grade Levels"
”The Tenor Tantrum: An Analysis of Modern Vocal Pedagogy and its Application to the Development of Tenor and Bass Voices in Choral Ensembles”
"Integrating music into their classroom"
”If They Read It, It Will Come! Tools and Tricks to Building Great Musical Literacy Skills, Without Them Even Knowing”
"Differentiated Instruction for Upper Elementary Musicians"
Reading Sessions
Round Table Discussion
$25 Collegiate Students
Payment options include:
MMI
1587 Cedar Grove Drive
2024 Presenter Lineup
Conductor, Singer, and teacher, Cody Parrott has enjoyed a diverse careers as a professional musician and educator for the past two decades. He joins the faculty of the Department of Music at Mississippi State University as Associate Director of Choral Activities in the Fall of 2023. He is currently completing the Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studies conducting with Dr. JD Burnett. Before his appointment, Cody enjoyed serving the Butler School of Music Choral Area as Assistant Conductor of the Texas Concert Chorale and the Conductor of the University Treble Chorus which, under his direction, was named the Third Place Winner for the 2023 American Prize in Choral Performance. His doctoral research is focused on modern voice science and how contemporary vocal pedagogy can be applied to the choral music classroom.
Professor Parrott's appointment at Mississippi State University follows a distinguished thirteen-year tenure as a high school music educator within the Texas public school system. During his secondary teaching career, choirs under his direction garnered notable achievements, exemplified by consistent superior commendations at the Texas UIL Choir Evaluations and the prestigious Performance of Distinction< recognition at the Madrigal and Chamber Choir Competition in San Antonio. Notably, his choirs have also attained finalist status in various choral festivals and competitions, showcasing their artistic excellence in invited performances across diverse locales, such as Chicago, Honolulu, the Texas Capitol, and the Washington National Cathedral.
Cody continues to maintain a passion for the pedagogy of classical singing and performing opera, oratorio, and in recital. His singing career has traversed the stages of opera companies, concert venues, and sacred spaces in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, California, Washington, D.C., Texas, Italy, France, Austria, and the United Kingdom. Renowned for his "sweet-toned lyric tenor," Cody's vocal prowess has garnered accolades and critical acclaim. For instance, the South Florida Classical Review lauds his performances as "touching and vocally thrilling." His various stage credits include the roles of Arturo in Donizetti's masterpiece Lucia di Lamermoor, Ferrando in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Captain Macheath in Britten's The Beggar's Opera, Joe Brennan in the Florida premiere performance of Richard Wargo's Ballymore, Tamino in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, and Belmonte in Mozart's Die Enführung aus dem Serail and the title roles in Massenet's Wertherand Gounod's Romeo and Juliet.
In addition to solo performance, Mr. Parrott enjoys time spent singing with some of the United States' most prominent professional choral ensembles. He has performed with the Grammy Award Winning Houston Chamber Choir, conducted by Robert Simpson on their record Ravishingly Russian,described as "top of the line" singing by the American Record Guide, and an "...enjoyable, and enduring listening experience" by Musica Russica. Cody can also be found regularly performing with the Austin-based Ars Longa Ensemble conducted by Dr. Steven Brennfleck, with Chorus Austin and as a soloist with the Bell Civic Chorus.
Mr. Parrott holds a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music with concentrations in Vocal Music and Music Education from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, TX. Cody is an active participant, clinician, and adjudicator in the Texas UIL, TMEA, and TAPPS contests, and holds professional memberships with TMEA, TMAA, ACDA, the American Guild of Organists, and the National Association of Teachers of Singing
Dr. Jennifer Campbell serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University, where she facilitates music education in Foundations of Music Education, Elementary Methods, and the capstone course, Managing the Music Education Classroom. She also supports individual Teacher Interns at their placements, and proudly serves as the faculty advisor to the MSU Collegiate NAfME chapter. She currently teaches seven sections of early childhood and preschool music through the MSU Community Music School and the Child Development and Family Studies Center. She proudly directs the middle grades choral music program for the Starkville Homeschool Music Cooperative.
Before joining the music department at Mississippi State, Dr. Campbell serves as Coordinator of Music Education at The College of St. Rose (2017-2021) and the University of Central Missouri (2016-2017). Dr. Campbell’s first teaching position was at the Sanford School in Hockessin, Delaware. She taught Junior Kindergarten through Grade Eight, teaching general and choral music that resulted in over nine concerts annually. She was also active in the Sanford Repertory Theatre Company, serving in various capacities including Technical Director and Stage Crew Advisor.
In 2020, she was appointed as Elementary General Music Instructional Lead for the Country Music Association’s Unified Voices for Music Education. Through this initiative, she sponsored four summer work sessions for music educators from across the United States to plan lessons in virtual and physically distanced classrooms. In 2019, Dr. Campbell presented at the Inaugural Southwest Region Collegiate Summit of NAfME. She presented her research on female music educators of the nineteenth century at the 2017 Oklahoma Symposium on the History of Music Education and her research on early childhood singing at the 2016 NAfME Music Research and Teacher Education National Conference.
Dr. Campbell holds the Doctor of Philosophy degree and the Master of Music degree in Music Education from The University of Mississippi, and the Bachelor of Music Education degree from Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory in Berea, OH. As an elementary music specialist, she has completed three levels in the Orff-Schulwerk approach and holds a level II certificate in the Kodály pedagogy. She is a member of the National Association for Music Educators, and the Organization for Kodály Educators, and the American Orff-Schulwek Association.