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Mike Christiansen performs on Utah Public Radio – December 20th at 9:00AM MST

December 18, 2013 by Mike Christiansen

Consonus Music Institute’s Director of Curriculum Development – Mike Christiansen will  be the featured musical artist on a prerecorded program that will air Friday, December 20th at 9:00A.M.. The program can be heard on KUSU FM 91.5 in Logan, Utah or at www.upr.org streamed live and from station’s archives.

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Guitar Fundamentals Receives Highest Recommendation in USOE Review

December 18, 2013 by Mike Christiansen

On December 12th 2013, The Utah State Office of Education released  the results of its  Fall 2013 Instructional Materials Review and Consonus Music Institute’s Guitar Fundamentals – Beginning Course was given the highest  adoption recommendation of Primary Curriculum by the review commission.  As a Primary Curriculum teachers in Utah public schools may adopt the CMI Read the Rest…

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CMI presents at Association for Middle Level Education 2013

September 29, 2013 by Mike Christiansen

CMI will present a session on Blended Learning in Instrumental Music  at the Association for Middle Level Education 2013 Conference on November 8th in Minneapolis. Mike Christiansen will conduct the session. He will discuss what some of the trends in K-12 music education which are driving the need for additional instrumental music options utilizing technology Read the Rest…

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CMI Partners with Hard Rock Café and Fender Music Foundation

September 24, 2013 by Mike Christiansen

On  August 9th Consonus Music Institute clinicians Mike Christiansen and Abe Lagrimas, Jr. traveled to Springfield Massachusetts to  be part of a new event that may be coming to your community in the future. The event was a 2 day music workshop sponsored by the Hard Rock Café and the Fender Music Foundation that brings Read the Rest…

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CMI Presents at Texas Bandmaster’s Conference July 23rd in San Antonio

July 14, 2013 by Mike Christiansen

K12 Classroom Guitar - Teacher Development

Consonus Music Institute’s Director of Curriculum Development Mike Christiansen will be presenting a clinic at the 2013  Texas Bandmasters Association Conference on 21st Century Classroom Guitar Instruction. This presentation will cover key information for every music teacher who either currently teaches or is considering teaching classroom guitar. Topics will range from How To Establish a Read the Rest…

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Utah CMI Professional Development Workshops Well Received

June 21, 2013 by hobbitgp

K12 Classroom Guitar - Teacher Development Workshops

June 13, 2013 – Consonus Music Institute’s lead instructor, Michael Christiansen, a master teacher, one of the world’s foremost experts in classroom guitar pedagogy, and gifted musician, recently presented professional development workshops to music educators in the Salt Lake, Nebo, and Granite, Utah school districts. His presentation showed how, by combining time-tested classroom instruction and Read the Rest…

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Mike Christiansen – Curriculum Author

Mike Christiansen classroom guitar and ukulele curriculum authorMike Christiansen, classroom guitar & ukulele curriculum author, is Professor Emeritus in the Music Department at Utah State University. Mike founded the guitar program at USU and was Director of Guitar Studies at USU for 39 years. Read More...

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