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Dr.
Will Schmid
Will
Schmid is past president of the 100,000-member
MENC: The National Association for Music Education
and professor emeritus at the University of
Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
He holds a B.A. from Luther College and a Ph.D.
from the Eastman School of Music. Will is a
program
author for Pearson Scott Foresman's 2002 and
2005 Silver Burdett Making Music series. He
is the
principal author of the best selling Hal Leonard
Guitar Method (in ten languages) and over sixty
other books/CDs/DVDs for guitar, banjo, and strings. |
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Dr. Schmid is also the principal author/editor of an 8-volume high
school choral textbook, Something New to Sing About (Glencoe/G.
Schirmer) and a student text and teacher’s guide entitled A
Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly (MENC).
He has given workshops throughout the United States and in Australia,
Canada, Japan, Mexico and Europe. After a two-year $140,000 national
pilot project in twenty schools nationwide, Dr. Schmid launched the
World Music Drumming curriculum (also included in drumming units
of Silver Burdett Making Music series) which brings the
excitement of African and Latin drumming and singing to schools throughout
the United States.
Dr.
Schmid is the recipient of the 1996 Distinguished Alumnus
Award from the Eastman School of Music. In 2002 he was
named a Lowell Mason Fellow by MENC and given the Distinguished
Service Award from the Music Industry Conference (MIC).
In 2006 he was named the inaugural winner of the DeLucia
Prize for Innovation in Music Education given by the
Mockingbird Foundation. During his presidency of MENC
(1994-96), Dr. Schmid worked to reestablish the importance
of active music making in schools and in America at
large. MENC created new partnership initiatives in the
areas of guitar, drumming, and singing as exemplified
by the Get America Singing . . . Again! Campaign and
the GAMA/NAMM/MENC-sponsored Teaching Guitar workshops.
In 2005, Hal Leonard established a new World Music Drumming
Choral Series arranged by Will Schmid.
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