Benjamin F. Sm., Green Bay Music Teacher | Teaches Private Music Lessons in 54303

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About Me

Publications

--SongCycleS Music Method, a method book for beginners in music that teaches ear training and improvisation from the earliest levels, for violin, viola, cello, string bass, guitar, bass guitar, piano, harp, mandolin, drums, and voice, May 2008.

-Recording producer, and string bassist for Wisconsin banjo bluegrass godfather, Bill Jorgenson, in recording sessions with Chris Neumeyer, voice, guitar, mandolin, and fiddle, December 2006.

-Berklee Alumni Grant for the production of a concert by SongCycleS world jazz ensemble to benefit the Multicultural Center of Green Bay, Wisconsin, 2006.

-Article with The American String Teacher, “Nontraditional Strings Ensembles Have Arrived”, August 2001.

-Article for the Wisconsin Strings Teachers’ Association, newsletter, “The Similarities Between the Suzuki and Jazz Methods of Music Education”, Spring 1998.

-Article with The American String Teacher, “Assorted Recipes For Playing Jazz, Folk, and Blues Music On The Bowed, Stringed, Instruments”, Fall 1996.

--Grant from the Fairfield County Schools of Winnsboro, SC, to produce and air a TV commercial featuring student performers to publicize the school district’s String Orchestra program

Benjamin F. Sm. has over 28 years of music experience in the Green Bay area.

Benjamin F. Sm. is proficient in and teaches Guitar Lessons, Drum Lessons, Vocal Lessons, Song Writing Lessons, Orchestral Lessons .

Formal Education:

Ph. D. University of South Carolina
B. of Music Berklee College of Music
Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction Certification
Suzuki Assocation of the Americas Certificate
Certificate in Adaptive Education from St. Norbert College

Private Education:

Working in the music industry since 1978.

Performing Experience:

Performances

-violin with the Wisconsin Harmony Chamber Chorale, in performance of the Maryhill Canticles by Joseph Smeall, April 2011.

-Performance of original works as director of SongCycleS world jazz ensemble, August 6, 2009 at The Harmony Café of Green Bay, Wisconsin.

-Director of the SongCycleS String Octet for the Billy Dean concert at the SC Grand Dinner Theater, February 14, 2007.

--violin with Laura Fuentes, world music singer and songwriter, on tour, with performance on Chicago’s WFMT radio station, April and May 2003.

--performed original work: “Rosaura: A Fantasia for Jazz band and orchestra” as singer and guitarist with the Jazz and Media Music Orchestra of the U. of S. Carolina, conducted by John Serry, April 29, 1989.

---performance as director of world music ensemble, Los Charangos, at the Weidner Center of the U. of Wisconsin / Green Bay May 1993.

-Violin with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra and Garrison Keillor, May 17, 1998.
-First Tenor, St. Norbert College Symphonic Choir, 1992-93.

-Lecture at the University of Wisconsin/ Green Bay, “Music Education in Bolivia”, for the Hispanic Cultural Series, March 5, 1992.

-Violin, Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1983-84, including a performance with country great Roy Clark and his band--

-Violin with Phil Wilson’s International Dues Band, Berklee College of Music, 1987-88.
--recital at Berklee College of Music, “The Seagulls”, May 1979

Experience Teaching:

-Lecturer, Latin American and Hispanic musicology, St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin, 2011.

-Adjunct Instructor, Spanish, Globe University, Wausau, 2011.

-Translations and interpreting, English / Spanish, with the Brown County Courts, Packerland Packing, Allegro Translations Co., and Access On Time translation company, 1993 through the present.

-Private lessons music teacher at Aldo Leopold Community School, Green Bay, Wisconsin, January 2010 through the present.

-Private instructor in violin, viola, cello, string bass, guitar, voice, piano, drums, harp, mandolin and harmonica in Green Bay, WI, 1993 through the present.

-violin, bass, and vocals with Mariachi Estrella, traditional Mexican mariachi ensemble, Green Bay Wisconsin, 2007 through the present

-Tenor, Old St. Joseph’s Church Liturgical Music Ministry, 1995-2007

-String Orchestra and Suzuki music teacher at The Academy of the Fox River Valley, Appleton, Wisconsin, 2003 through the present

-Director, violin, viola, cello, string bass, guitars, bass guitar, mandolin, drums and vocals in SongCycleS world jazz ensemble, 1993 through the present.

II. Work Experience, continued.

-Berklee Alumni Representative for Berklee College of Music, 1989-1996.

-Lecturer in String Methods and Applied Music; Strings at Silver Lake College in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1994-95.

-Music Director of the Spanish Mass in Wautoma, WI, Summer 1993.

-Catholic Choir Director, U. of Wisconsin Ecumenical Center, 1993-1994.

-Adjudicator in Manitowoc Youth Recital Strings Auditions, March 1994.

-Research Assistant in Computers and Music with the Young Artists’ Workshop in Adaptive Education at St. Norbert College, Summer 1993.

-Short course, “Music In The Americas”, St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI, Summer 1992.

-Assistant band and string orchestra director for Fairfield Co. Schools, South Carolina, grades 4-12, 1986-89.

-Teaching assistant with the University of South Carolina’s String Project program for elementary school age strings players, 1985-86.

-Student teaching in Lexington District One and Richland District One in South Carolina, 1986.

-Private violin, viola, and fiddle instructor with the University of North Dakota’s Music Lifelong Learning Program, 1983-84.