Learn About Our Outreach Workshops

Children creating a EcoSonic Playground through a UMass Lowell Music Department project

Starting in Spring 2025, the UMass Lowell Music Department will be offering 30- to 90-minute runout clinics and workshops to high schools and community music schools. These workshops, on a variety of topics, are taught by our renowned music faculty in their special areas of expertise. We provide this service at no cost, in the spirit of fostering learning partnerships with regional schools and to help support New England’s music education community.

Here are some of the topics we have to offer:

  • Acoustics
  • African drumming
  • Audio engineering (recording and mixing)
  • Choral ensemble coaching
  • Choral improvisation and song-leading
  • Coaching for a cappella groups
  • Coaching for Marching Band: Visual design, techniques and choreography
  • Composition
  • Music education
  • Music production
  • Music technology
  • Music theory
  • Percussion
  • Post-production audio
  • Scoring for visual media
  • Songwriting
  • Synthesizers
  • Vocal technique

Clinicians:

  • Matthew Azevedo, Assistant Professor of Music, Sound Recording Technology
  • Debra-Nicole Huber, Director of Instrumental Music Outreach and Associate Director of University Bands
  • Christopher Lee, Associate Teaching Professor of Music, Music Theory, Composition, Percussion
  • Jonathan Richter, Assistant Teaching Professor of Music, Director of Choral Activities
  • Lanier Sammons, Associate Professor of Music, Sound Recording Technology
  • Brandon Vaccaro, Associate Teaching Professor of Music, Sound Recording Technology
  • Janet Welby, Assistant Teaching Professor of Music, Music Studies (Education)

For more information, please email: Christopher_Lee@uml.edu.