About
I am so excited to participate in our arts program at John Adams Academy! This year I will teaching 7th and 8th grade Choir/Core Music classes, High School Choir, Advanced Vocal Ensemble (10th-12th, by audition) as full-time classes, and Elementary Choir (4th-6th) and Advanced Intermediate Choir (7th-9th, auditioned) after school.
"Mr. B" has been teaching music at John Adams Academy since 2012, before which he taught private voice and piano for over 15 years. His choirs and scholars at JAA have won a number of awards, and hundreds of them have participated in honor choirs up to the state level. He holds a Masters in Musical Performance and has performed in Italy, England and France, and with professional groups in the Bay Area and the Sacramento foothills. He is a sought-after voice teacher and the author of a successful published singing method for children. Mr. Blankenbehler hopes to provide students at John Adams Academy with exciting, challenging, and exceptional musical experiences that nurture their abilities to expertly communicate about and through the universal language of music.
Professional Portfolio: http://GBMusic.Me
Lessons Website: http://Lessons.GBMusic.Me
"Little Singers" Singing Method: http://LittleSingers.Infohttp://LittleSingers.Info
"Mr. B" has been teaching music at John Adams Academy since 2012, before which he taught private voice and piano for over 15 years. His choirs and scholars at JAA have won a number of awards, and hundreds of them have participated in honor choirs up to the state level. He holds a Masters in Musical Performance and has performed in Italy, England and France, and with professional groups in the Bay Area and the Sacramento foothills. He is a sought-after voice teacher and the author of a successful published singing method for children. Mr. Blankenbehler hopes to provide students at John Adams Academy with exciting, challenging, and exceptional musical experiences that nurture their abilities to expertly communicate about and through the universal language of music.
Professional Portfolio: http://GBMusic.Me
Lessons Website: http://Lessons.GBMusic.Me
"Little Singers" Singing Method: http://LittleSingers.Infohttp://LittleSingers.Info
“The purpose of [music] education is to train children, not to be professional musicians but to be fine musicians and to show high ability in any other field they enter.” -- Shinichi Suzuki "Nurtured by Love"
"Where the disease [in our society] is extreme pragmatism—with its syndrome of mediocrity, emphasis on quantity [over quality], always feeling too busy, focusing on results at the expense of everything else, etc.—the antidote is artistic education....Where the natural result of extremist societal pragmatism is inevitably hedonism, the natural consequence of widespread artistic education balanced with the practical is culture, refinement and an attachment to quality." --Oliver DeMille, "The Future of American Education"
Recent studies have concurred that early music training can produce greater physical development in the brain, and up to 27% higher math, 57 points higher SAT and 46% higher IQ scores. Approximately 22% more applying music majors are admitted to medical schools than any other major and “the very best engineers and technical designers in the Silicon Valley industry are, nearly without exception, practicing musicians.