Music - The Key To Your School's Successful Turnaround

Wednesday February 22, 2017
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Grand Ballroom B

Award-winning principal Dr. Stephen Oliverson offers pragmatic ideas and solutions to help school administrators and teachers completely change how they think about the benefits of music and arts education in their school. This exciting presentation will outline how one National Distinguished Elementary School broke through many barriers and completely changed their instructional day in order to provide ALL students a deep enriched musical experience. Attendees get: Dr. Oliverson's "secret formula" for putting any child in the top 1% in their chosen pursuit; research based answers as to how music really effects young learners; tips about resource acquisition; how music enhances literacy and numeracy outcomes; what spinoff effects music has for school climate and culture. Enjoy a special live performance by 2016 United States Presidential Scholar and National YoungArts Winner in Violin Performance--Miss Aubree Oliverson, and hear her insights on student motivation, and teaching.

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Stephen Oliverson

Dr. Stephen Oliverson is principal of a National Title I Distinguished School located in Provo Utah. He will share insights as to how his school broke through many barriers and overcame challenges to turn his Title I school into a National Distinguished Title I School and a renown school for the arts — emphasizing music education — while at the same time increasing literacy and numeracy scores. Dr. Oliverson has been a successful school administrator on every level K-12. His training includes a B.A. and M.A. in Special Education and Emotional Disorders (Utah State University), and an MPA (Master of Public Administration) and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Utah. He has been a district Principal-of-the-Year, recognized as Innovator-of-the-Year for the state of Utah, is a UAESP District National Distinguished Principal, and the 2016 Huntsman Award Of Excellence Winner for the State of Utah as the top educational administrator. Dr. Oliverson is also an accomplished musician, producer, and performer, having won numerous musical awards and recognition, including Best-of-State. He and his talented family have performed from Seattle to New York, and have given their motivational musical message of hard-work and perseverance in over a hundred schools in the inter-mountain west. His wife Jill has been a successful teacher in a Title I school in Salt Lake City, and his three children are all talented musicians by virtue of hard work. Besides Stephen’s many musical endeavors he was an all-state and collegiate athlete, and a distinquished military officer. Stephen and his family's acclaimed music have been featured on stage and radio, and they have performed in hundreds of venues from Seattle to Washington D.C. Under the stage name "Moon Light" they have several beautifully produced music videos on their YouTube channel (Moonlightperformers), three having reached the top ten on video music charts.

Aubree Oliverson

Aubree Oliverson,17, is a 2016 United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and a YoungArts National Winner for Violin Performance. She has appeared on National Public Radio’s popular program "From The Top" four times, and was also an invited soloist at their year end Gala in Boston. Aubree was a winner in the American Protege International Strings Competition and soloed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall at age twelve. She made her symphony solo debut with the Utah Symphony at age eleven, and has since soloed with them several times, including her performance of the complete Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto at age thirteen to multiple standing ovations. Aubree won Utah’s Best-of-State Award as Utahʼs Top Entertainer and performed at the Salt Palace at age twelve. She was a winner in the the Hennings-Fischer, Utah Chamber Artists, and Pasadena Orchestra Young Artist Competitions, a Utah Stradivarius Competition winner, a multiple Utah Symphony Salute-to-Youth winner, a National Finalist in the Music Teachers National Association Competition, a Strulberg International Strings Competition Finalist, and first runner-up at the Dorothy DeLay Memorial Fellowship Competition at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Aubree was Concertmaster for the Gifted Music School Orchestra of Salt Lake City for two years, and at age fifteen was one of only a select few students throughout the world invited to attend the Colburn Music Academy in Los Angeles—where through competitive audition she won the position of Concertmaster for the Colburn Virtuosi Orchestra, and served in that position for two years until her high school graduation. Aubree has soloed with a wide variety of orchestras and musical groups, performed at venues such as the Kennedy Center, New World Center, and Sundance Film Festival, and is a highly sought after chamber musician who has performed with artists such as Joseph Silverstein and Stefan Jackiw. Aubree is a multiple state and national composition winner and along with her father has co-composed and recorded six acclaimed CD albums and several music videos. Aubree has had master classes from Joseph Silverstein, Andres Cardenes, David Kim, Laurent Korcia, Evgenia Epstein, Stefan Jackiw, Scott St. John, Peter Oundjian, Augustin Hadelich; she is a former student of Deborah Moench, Eugene Watanabe, Danielle Belen, and currently studies with Robert Lipsett. Aubree is a fellowship recipient and guest performer at the Innsbrook Summer Music Camp and Aspen Music Festival this summer before she begins her bachelors degree at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in the Fall of 2016.

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instruction
audience:
296
topics:
title I success stories, school improvement