Trumpet Diatonics© orders technical advancement, while maintaining a prodigious emphasis on developing a clear aural literacy.
Heutagogy is a learner-centered educational thesis rooted in key principles of learner agency, self-efficacy, capability, metacognition (knowing how to learn), and reflection.
Learners are interdependent. They identify the potential to learn from phenomenal sense experiences as a matter of course, and they are capable of managing their own inspirations and curiosities through autonomous learning.
The guide (“teacher”) provides exceptional and deliberate resources and experiences that incite and empower the learner to engage through courses of action inspired by their own personal curiosities while fulfilling their unique inclinations for the learning.
Learning is not necessarily planned or linear.
Learning is based on the identification of the potential to learn in specific and meaningful situations relevant to the learner’s present skills, talents, capabilities, and facility to concentrate.
Learners can go beyond problem solving through Creative Pro-Activity rooted in the freedom of Confident Self-Efficacy through the realization of their own learning coherencies in the Creation of Artifacts.
Learners must exhibit an independent intelligence and aptitude for musical study and performance, exhibiting profound personal interest, there by exercising a responsible daily pursuit devoted to actualizing artifactual creation.
A Community of Excellence in Musical Expression
1. Experience the Flow of Musical Intention as We Practice Together
2. Learn Awareness through Musical Performance and Composition
3. Share and Create a Communal Repertoire
Artists in The Studio have continued their musical instruction in their acceptance to the following institutions.
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music
Cleveland Institute of Music
Frost School of Music University of Miami
Ohio University School of Music
The Ohio State University School of Music
Miami University College of Creative Arts
Xavier University Department of Music
Denison University
Otterbein University
University of Michigan School of Music