We welcome composer and educator extraordinaire, Dr. Jodie Blackshaw to Changing Your Pattern! Dylan and Jodie discuss how we can empower our students to be artists with creative agency, leading through composition, her leadership influences, challenges institutions/structures in general create that make servant leadership challenging and so much more!

Music Used in This Episode

BRP Theme Music: Chasing Sunlight (Piano Version) by Cait Nishimura

Arranged and performed by Brian Barber

Episode Links

Jodie Blackshaw's Website

https://www.jodieblackshaw.com/

ColourFULL Music

https://www.colourfullmusic.com/

American Orff Schulwerk Association

https://aosa.org/about/what-is-orff-schulwerk/

About Jodie

Dr. Jodie Blackshaw (b. 1971) grew up in the south-east of rural Australia and formed a very personal relationship with music early in life through the creative application of her imagination to musical colours and movement. Today, she continues to seek creative experiences for students through her teaching and composing so they, too, may enjoy the personal relationship she discovered in her formative years.

In 2020 Blackshaw completed her PhD in Composition with Dr. Christopher Sainsbury at the Australian National University. In addition to composing and presenting music education workshops, Blackshaw is passionate about fostering equality in concert programs, including schools. In 2018 she curated the website www.colourfullmusic.com to share diverse wind band programs created by leading conductors within the global wind music community. In 2022 Jodie was proudly elected onto the Board of WASBE (World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles).

In high demand internationally as a composer and clinician, Jodie has written extensively for apprenticing musicians and is fanatical about ensuring that the music they play enriches both the performer and creator in every student.

To find out more please visit: www.jodieblackshaw.com