The document announces a weekend workshop on comprehensive musicianship through performance to be held at Hong Kong International School on September 1-2, 2012. It will be facilitated by three presenters: Chris Gleason for band, Margaret Jenks for choir and general music, and Randal Swiggum for strings. The workshop will introduce the CMP model for planning instruction and help teachers connect repertoire to teaching outcomes in a student-centered approach.

1. is proud to host an EARCOS-sponsored weekend workshop:
Comprehensive Musicianship Through Performance
Facilitated by Wisconsin Music Educators Association
Facilitators: Chris Gleason (Band), Margaret Jenks (Choir & General Music) and Randal Swiggum (Strings)
Saturday September 1 AND Sunday September 2, 2012
Saturday 8:30am-4:30pm
Sunday 8:30am-2:00pm
Hong Kong International School
Middle School Campus, 700 Tai Tam Reservoir Road, Tai Tam, Hong Kong
香港國際學校, 香港大潭水塘道700號
Overview of the workshop:
Are you looking for a course that is practical, inspiring, musical, and fun all while helping you become a better
teacher? Comprehensive Musicianship Through Performance began over 35 years ago in Wisconsin (that's at least
500 years in education trend years!) based on the best practices of successful music teachers. The success and
durability of the CMP project is due to the fact that the model is based on strong, intuitive pedagogy and not on a
specific teaching styles, products to purchase or technologies to install.
CMP is a planning process that provides band, orchestra, choir and general music teachers with a system for
improving their own teaching and collaborating with their music colleagues. From choosing quality repertoire to
crafting rich outcomes, and to assessing the unique needs of real students, CMP helps to connect and integrate best
practice pedagogical elements into student-centered teaching plans. The interactive training process helps music
teachers clarify their priorities without losing the essence of their own approach. One paradox of master teaching is
that it comes across as organic and easy, even though it is thoughtfully and carefully crafted. Similarly, this model for
planning instruction seems quite simple and intuitive, but contains the possibility for infinitely complex and rich
thinking.
Margaret Jenks, Randy Swiggum, and Chris Gleason will lead participants through the CMP model and share how CMP
is used in their ensembles and classes. Participants will take part in rehearsal demonstrations and see many examples
of projects, portfolios, concert ideas, teaching plans, technology uses and student artifacts.
Outcomes for the workshop:
CMP will provide a model for a planning process that gives teachers a framework to connect their repertoire to high
level skill, conceptual and affective teaching outcomes, all in a dynamic, student-centered teaching plan.
What does the model look like?
Repertoire Selection: Great repertoire is key to deeper thinking and musical understanding, but finding it and
knowing how to identify a musical gem is more complicated than it seems. Participants will learn to analyze their
repertoire selections for greater teaching depth potential and rediscover the magic of well selected repertoire.
Analysis: It is such a dry sounding word, but in CMP we see imagination, curiosity and possibility at the heart of
analysis. Participants will learn methods of score study that will not only help shape curricular outcomes, but also
inspire creative teaching strategies.
Outcomes: Based on repertoire analysis, participants will create meaningful outcomes that address skills, knowledge
and affective needs of their own students.
Strategies: The teacher's playground! After determining what their students should know and what the repertoire
naturally teaches, participants will design creative and effective strategies for a variety of learning styles.
Assessment: Integrated into the teaching model, a great assessment is simply a strategy that is used for evaluative
purposes, which means that the fun doesn't have to stop at "Strategies".
With a great mix of philosophy and practicality, the CMP workshop offers both exciting intellectual rigor and
something that you can immediately use in your classroom. It will change how you think about preparing for class
next week, as well as offer you long term pedagogy challenges. Did we mention it is also fun? It really is! And we
aren't the only crazy three people who think this way. Come and see why hundreds of teachers make the CMP
workshop their number one priority every summer!

2. WORKSHOP PRESENTERS
MARGARET JENKS
Choir and General Music presenter
Margaret Jenks is the current chair-elect of the Wisconsin CMP committee
and is committed to higher level music education both in her teaching of
elementary and middle school students as well in her work with teacher
mentoring and training. Her teaching and performing career has taken her
from Freiburg, Germany to Eagan, Minnesota and Waukesha, Wisconsin,
where she taught at Butler Middle School and North High School. While at
Butler, Margaret created the Bridge Ensemble, an innovative choir which
gained attention for its unique approach of pairing cognitively disabled and
gifted and talented students. The Bridge Ensemble appeared by invitation at
the Wisconsin Choral Directors State Convention in a moving and memorable performance. Margaret has performed
extensively as soprano soloist in such works as the Bach Magnificat, Haydn's Creation, and Handel's Messiah.
Presently, Margaret designs and teaches the Introductory Choir programs of the Madison Youth Choirs, Tallis (for
boys) and Colla Voce (for girls). She also conducts Purcell and Holst, two of MYC’s performing boychoirs. Holst,
which she founded and co-directs with colleague Randal Swiggum, is an advanced choir for middle school age boys
who are moving through their voice change. The choir performs treble as well as SATB repertoire. As a member of
the Wisconsin CMP (Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance) Team, she helps teach a summer institute for
teachers, focusing on a deeper rehearsal experience for young musicians. Margaret serves as the WCDA Boychoir
Repertoire & Standards Chairperson and especially enjoys the challenge of finding unexplored choral works for
elementary and middle school boys. A frequent guest conductor, she recently directed the APAC Choral Festival in
Seoul, Korea and worked with music teachers from across southeast Asia in a CMP workshop. She co-conducted the
first-ever Middle School Boys SATB Honor Choir at the Central Division ACDA Conference in Cincinnati and conducted
a similar ensemble for the North Central Division Honor Choir in 2012.
Margaret lives in Madison with her husband Andy, and their own lively boys, Nathaniel, 11, and Simon, 8, both of
whom think singing in a boy choir is the coolest thing ever. Margaret loves to read, bike, hike and climb, cook
without recipes, and create puzzles and scavenger hunts for boys.
Contact Margaret at mjenks@madisonyouthchoirs.org
CHRIS GLEASON
Band workshop presenter
Chris Gleason earned his BME at UW-Eau Claire in 1997 and his Masters Degree
from UW-LaCrosse in 2002. He has taught band in the East Troy School District and
the LaCrosse School District. He currently teaches concert band and jazz ensemble at
Patrick Marsh Middle School in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Under Mr. Gleason's direction
the Patrick Marsh Band Program has increased by over 100 members from 2004 to
2010. Mr. Gleason's 8th Grade Band has performed at the Milwaukee Art Museum,
Wisconsin State Capitol Rotunda, the "New Wisconsin Promise Conference", and the
2006 and 2009 Wisconsin State Music Conferences. The Patrick Marsh 8th Grade
Band commissioned composer, Samuel R. Hazo and performed the world premiere of
Blue and Green Music at the 2009 Wisconsin State Music Conference. Currently, his
7th Grade Band is working with composer Brian Balmages and next year's 7th Grade
Band will commission composer Michael Sweeney. In 1992 Mr. Gleason was selected as the Wisconsin Governor’s
Scholar to Interlochen Arts Camp in Interlochen, Michigan. Mr. Gleason has performed professionally at Disneyland,
Valleyfair, and the Mall of America. He has been guest conductor of numerous camps and festivals including the
National Band Association –Wisconsin Chapter Junior High All-State Band, Tri-State Honors Band, UW-Milwaukee
Honors Band and UW-Whitewater Band Camp. He has also served as the Tuba/Euphonium Instructor for the
Indianhead Arts Camp in Shell Lake, Wisconsin for many years. He is the chair of the Wisconsin Comprehensive
Musicianship through Performance (CMP) Committee and the chair of the Wisconsin State Middle Level Honors Band.
He has taught CMP Workshops at VanderCook College of Music, the Los Angeles Unified School District in California,
The Total Music Educators Workshop and numerous districts in Wisconsin. Mr. Gleason was the recent recipient of
the Vi Miller Award for Excellence by the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission. Mr. Gleason is the founder and
organizer of the Kalahari Band Festival in Wisconsin Dells. Mr. Gleason is a member of NBA, WMEA, and NAfME.
Contact Chris at cpgleas@spasd.k12.wi.us
Website www.sunprairie.k12.wi.us/faculty/cpgleas

3. RANDAL SWIGGUM
Strings workshop presenter
Randal Swiggum is in his fifteenth season as Artistic Director of the award-
winning Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra (Chicago), and serves as Associate
Conductor for the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, designing and conducting their
extensive education and family series concerts attended by over ten thousand young
people each season. He is also the conductor of Britten and Holst, the advanced
choirs of the Madison Boychoir. He was Artistic Director of the Madison Children’s
Choir from 1996-2000, and has also taught at Whitefish Bay High School, UW-
Milwaukee, and Lawrence University, all in Wisconsin.
A frequent guest conductor of orchestral and choral festivals, Randal recently
conducted the Scottish National Youth Symphony in Glasgow, and All-State
Orchestras in Georgia and Illinois, the Pennsylvania All-State Junior High Choir, the
Singapore American School Choral Festival, MENC All-Northwest Honor Choir in
Portland, American Mennonite Schools Orchestra Festival, Northern Arizona Honors Orchestra, the APAC Orchestra
Festival in Seoul, and both the Wisconsin Middle Level Honors Choir and Orchestra, as well as the Mansfield (PA)
Choral Festival, New York City Interschool Choral Festival, St. John’s Boys’ Choir, and various festivals in Michigan,
Illinois, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania. Randal has served as education conductor of The Florida Orchestra, conducting
twenty performances of his Beethoven Superhero education concerts last season. He and colleague Margaret Jenks
co-conducted the 2010 ACDA Central Division Young Men's Honor Choir in Cincinnati.
A passionate advocate for a richer learning experience in the rehearsal, Randy serves on the Wisconsin CMP
(Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance) Project, now in its 36th year. He recently addressed the
Pennsylvania MENC on "The Art of Rehearsing," as well as the Minnesota ACDA, Iowa ACDA, Illinois ACDA, Maryland
MENC, the ACDA North Central Division and Eastern Division, the Texas Orchestra Directors Association, and MENC
National Conventions in Phoenix and Kansas City. He often works with music teachers in workshops and in-services
across the U.S.
Randal has led concert tours throughout Europe, Canada, and the Americas including the first international tour for
the Madison Children’s Choir to Brazil in 1998. The Elgin Youth Symphony recently returned from a ten-day Civil War
tour of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. combining concerts and in-depth study.
He has music directed over thirty stage works including the 1991 premiere of the Theatre X opera, Liberace. He
created the music for celebrated director Eric Simonsen’s new production of Moby Dick for the Milwaukee Repertory
Theatre, named by TIME magazine as one of the 10 Best Theatrical Productions of 2002. He is author of Strategies
for Teaching High School Chorus (MENC 1998), and co-author of Shaping Sound Musicians (GIA 2003). He is
currently a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Contact Randy at rswiggum@wisc.edu
LOGISTICS AND WORKSHOP DETAILS
Materials to bring to the workshop
Participants will need to bring:
 two or three repertoire selections that they are considering using in the future
 their major instrument (Voice counts! Vocal and general teachers may bring a secondary instrument--no need to
be concert ready)
 (if possible) a laptop computer
Who to contact at HKIS
Karen Rohrs (workshop enquiries) Jacqueline Hutchings (registration and logistics)
Director of Professional Development Executive Secretary, Head of School Office
Phone: (852) 3149 7223 (school) Phone: (852) 3149 7815 (office)
(852) 6905 7589 (mobile) Fax: (852) 2813 4293 (attention: Jacqueline Hutchings)
Email: kcrohrs@hkis.edu.hk Email: conference@hkis.edu.hk
Accreditation from State University of New York (SUNY)
Participants may apply for university credit. Details about accreditation, along with a workshop information sheet, will
be emailed to participants one week prior to the workshop commencement date.

4. Number of participants per workshop
Please note that each workshop can accommodate a maximum of 40 participants. Places on each
workshop will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. If we are unable to confirm a place for you, your name
will be placed on a wait list.
Registration fee
EARCOS member schools: HK$800 or US$100
Non-EARCOS schools: HK$1600 or US$200
(Registration fee includes transportation from designated hotels, workshop materials, lunch and refreshments during
the workshop).
Registration and payment for the workshop
Details about payment methods available are provided on the registration form.
** Registration closes Friday August 17, 2012**
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF REGISTRATION:
1. HKIS reserves the right to alter the program/s or presenter/s without further notice; however, the event/s is/are
intended to run as advertised.
2. Fees paid are non-refundable on receipt.
3. Cancellations will not be refunded.
4. HKIS reserves the right to cancel the event/s due to insufficient numbers. Registrants will be notified and
refunded in full should this occur.
5. In the event of Typhoon Signal No. 8 (or higher signal) being hoisted, or Black Rainstorm Warning being hoisted,
the workshop(s) that day will be cancelled. Under these circumstances, refunds will not be provided.
Hotel accommodation
Participants are responsible for booking their own hotel accommodation, if required.
 HKIS has secured rooms at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Holiday Inn Express Causeway Bay, and the L’hotel (all hotels
in the Causeway Bay area). If you are interested in staying at these hotels please complete the attached hotel
reservation form and return it directly to the hotel.
Please note the registration deadline date for these special room rates. Hotel room reservation
requests received after the hotel’s deadline date will be offered at the current room availability
price.
 Other hotels for consideration include the Newton Hotel, Hotel Ibis, Park Lane Hotel, and iRegal. Hong Kong has
many hotel options. Please refer to hotel websites for details on individual room rates.
Please indicate on your registration form the hotel you will be staying in as this will guide the bus pick-up
schedule each day.
Hong Kong weather
Hong Kong weather is very changeable during the months of June through September. Please check the Hong Kong
Observatory website for up-to-date weather information, and for any weather warnings that may be issued.
http://www.hko.gov.hk/contente.htm
Transport
Between the airport and hotels:
Participants are responsible for organizing their own transportation between the airport and their hotel/accomodation.
Between HKIS and hotels:
HKIS will provide a bus each day to transport participants between the school and key locations. Participants not
staying at the above mentioned hotels may meet there and join the bus. There is no additional cost for this service.
A bus schedule will accompany the information sheet sent to participants one week prior to the workshop.

5. FOR OUR INTERNATIONAL GUESTS, THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION MIGHT HELP
YOU AS YOU PLAN YOUR VISIT
Visa for entry into Hong Kong
Most nationalities can get a tourist visa on arrival at the airport in Hong Kong. Please check with your travel agent in
advance and allow sufficient time for processing your visa (if required).
Arrival in Hong Kong
Journey time from the airport depends on mode of transport.
 The Airport Express Train, to Central Airport Express Station, takes about 25 minutes. (Cost is HK$100 for a
“single” journey train fare, or HK$180 for “round trip” which is valid for 30 days from date of issue). If you are
traveling with colleagues, you can purchase the tickets together for a discounted price.
 There are a number of airport bus shuttles – please see the bus station for more details. The cost will be approx.
HK$50 per person.
 If you plan to take a taxi from the airport to your destination on Hong Kong island, please join the queue for the
red taxis. Taxi fare to Hong Kong Island will cost between HK$250 – HK$350, depending on destination.
Departure from Hong Kong
Hong Kong airport is very efficient but please allow 2 hours ahead of flight for check-in. Passengers for most flights
can check-in at Central Airport Express Station or at the airport itself. Please check with your airline directly if you
would like clarification for your specific carrier.
Journey time to the airport depends on mode of transport.
 The Airport Express Train, from Central Airport Express Station, takes 25 minutes to reach the airport. (Cost is
HK$100 for a “single” journey train fare).
 You can check-in your luggage at the Central Airport Express Station up to 12 hours ahead.
Additional information
Money:
 Exchange rates – approximate: 1 US$ = HK$7.78
 ATMs are located at the airport and all over the city. Bank of China ATMs accept Union Pay cards.
Getting around town:
 The Hong Kong subway is an excellent and efficient method of transport (or what the locals call “MTR station”).
The MTR is very convenient. Tickets can be easily purchased at each station. For details of fares, station
locations, MTR Map please see www.mtr.com.hk
 Please also refer to the Hong Kong Travel website for information on all the different methods of public
transportation in Hong Kong http://www.hong-kong-travel.org/Transportation.asp
Eating out:
 Hong Kong has many choices of cuisine and price range. Please consult the Hong Kong Tourism Board website
for suggestions, or let us know if you would like a recommendation.

6. Comprehensive Musicianship Through Performance
Facilitated by Wisconsin Music Educators Association
Facilitators : Chris Gleason (Band), Margaret Jenks (Choir & General Music) and Randal Swiggum (Strings)
Saturday September 1 (8:30am to 4:30pm) AND Sunday September 2, 2012 (8:30am to 2:00pm)
HKIS Middle School Campus, 700 Tai Tam Reservoir Road, Tai Tam
Registration CLOSES Friday August 17, 2012
REGISTRANT INFORMATION – PLEASE COMPLETE ONE FORM PER PERSON:
Name: _____________________________________ _________________________________________
First Name Family Name (Surname)
School Name: ________________________________________________________________________________
School Address : _____________________________________________________________________________
Grade Level You Teach / Administration Position: ___________________________________________________
Email Address For All Correspondence: ____________________________________________________________
PLEASE REGISTER FOR ONE OF THE FOLLOWING WORKSHOPS .... please indicate  your workshop choice:
 Chris Gleason : Band (this workshop can accommodate a maximum of 40 participants)
 Margaret Jenks : Choir & General Music (this workshop can accommodate a maximum of 40 participants)
 Randal Swiggum : Strings (this workshop can accommodate a maximum of 40 participants)
HOW TO REGISTER AND PAY YOUR REGISTRATION FEE:
HOW TO REGISTER:
 Places are limited to 40 participants per workshop.
 Places will be allocated on a first-come-first-served based.
 An email confirmation will be sent to you after your registration form is received.
 If we are unable to accommodate your registration, you will be informed by email and placed on a waitlist.
Please send your completed registration form by email or fax to:
Email: conference@hkis.edu.hk
Fax: (852) 2813 4293
REGISTRATION FEES:
Please indicate  fee applicable, otherwise the Non-EARCOS member fee will automatically be applied to your invoice:
 EARCOS member school: HK$800 or US$100
 Non-EARCOS member school: HK$1600 or US$200
HOW TO PAY YOUR REGISTRATION FEE:
 An invoice will be emailed to you after your registration form is received. The invoice will contain information for payment
by check or bank transfer. We cannot accept Credit Card or Cash payment.
 Confirmation of your registration, and receipt of payment, will be emailed to you after payment is received.
DIETARY NEEDS: To assist with catering please list any food allergies, food intolerances, or special diets:
HOTEL AND ACCOMMODATION IN HONG KONG:
Participants are responsible for booking accommodation directly with the hotel of their choice.
Accommodation or Hotel (please specify if known): __________________________________________________
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF REGISTRATION:
1. HKIS reserves the right to alter the program/s or presenter/s without further notice; however, the event/s is/are intended to run as advertised.
2. Fees paid are non‐refundable on receipt.
3. Cancellations will not be refunded.
4. HKIS reserves the right to cancel the event/s due to insufficient numbers. Registrants will be notified and refunded in full should this occur.
5. In the event of Typhoon Signal No. 8 (or higher signal) being hoisted, or Black Rainstorm Warning being hoisted, the workshop(s) that day will be cancelled.
Under these circumstances, refunds will not be provided.

7. HOTEL RESERVATION FORM
Music Workshop on 31 August – 2 September 2012
To : Ms. Debbie Chan – Sales Department From :
Fax / Tel : (852) 3553 2868 / 3553 2839 Fax / Tel :
Email : debbiechan@lhotelcausewaybayhv.com Email :
Date : Company : Hong Kong International School
Please complete and return this Reservation Form directly to the above contact on or before 31 July 2012
Guest Name (Mr/Ms) : (Last Name) (First Name)
Arrival Date : August 2012 Flight No. / Time :
Departure Date : September 2012 Flight No. / Time :
Total No. of Nights : No. of Rooms :
Daily Room Rate : HK$ 1,070 inclusive of 10% service charge per Superior Room
Privileges Included : -Daily buffet breakfast for one person at Corner 18 on 1/F
-Complimentary In-Room Broadband Internet Access
-Complimentary In-Room Distilled Water & Complimentary Daily Newspaper
-Welcome Fruit Basket & Welcome Drink Coupon per person
-Free Local Telephone Call & Free use of Fitness Centre & Sauna
-20% discount on laundry, dry cleaning & pressing services
-20% discount for every visit at Corner 18 & The Booth etc
(not applicable to happy hour, special promotion / offer, festival eves and days)
-Additional buffet breakfast at HK$ 80net per person at Corner 18 on consumption basis
Terms of Payment : Guest will settle all expenses by credit card or cash upon departure
Arrival Airport : Limousine at HK$580 per trip per car Shuttle bus at HK$130 per person per trip
Transfer (Please contact airport representative at Counter A16 or B16 upon arrive of HK Int’l Airport)
Room – On Request : Smoking or Non-smoking / Twin bedded room or King bedded room
Reservation must be guaranteed by One Night Non-refundable Deposit by Credit Card :
This serve as an irrevocable instruction to L’hotel Causeway Bay Harbour View that I will responsible one night room charge and
service charge, which will be deducted from the below credit card if I do not arrive on the expected arrival day or/and cancellation is
received by the hotel less than 7 days prior to arrival (Hong Kong time).
Credit Card Holder : Type of Card : Master / Visa / AE
Card Number : Expiry Date :
Signature : Date :
All reservation will be subject to room availability and the below confirmation by the hotel.
Confirmed by Confirmation Number Date
18 King’s Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Main Tel: (852) 3553 2898 Fax: (852) 3553 2888 Reservations Direct Tel: (852) 3553 2818 Fax: (852) 3553 2813
Web-site: www.lhotelcausewaybayhv.com Email: rsvns@lhotelcausewaybayhv.com

9. Hotel Reservation Form
Hong Kong International School
HKIS – Music Workshop
August 31 – September 02, 2012
(Please tick your choice from below selections)
Room + breakfast Room + breakfast
(Single occupancy) (Double occupancy)
Tel: (852) 3552 1111
www.cosmopolitanhotel.com.hk
Superior Room HK$1,180 HK$1,280
*The above rates are subject to 10% service charge per room per night
Special Privileges:
- Two bottled distilled water daily
- Complimentary hotel shuttle bus is available between hotel and major commercial & shopping areas on HK
island, including Causeway Bay, Wan Chai, Central and Admiralty
- 8 mins walk to MTR Station and Times Square Mega Shopping Mall or else hotel shuttle bus is available every
20 mins
Terms & Condition:
 All reservations must be guaranteed by credit card upon submitting this reservation form on or before August
01, 2012.
 Reservation requests received after August 01, 2012 will be subject to the hotel’s availability thereafter.
 For guaranteed reservation, one-night applicable room charge will be applied for any no show or should cancellation notice
be received 7 days prior to arrival date
 Daily rate will be subject to change if staying period is outside of Aug 31 – Sept 02, 2012 inclusive.
Guest name(s):  Mr  Ms  Mrs Last name:
First name:
Arrival date: Departure date:
Arrival flight/time: Departure flight/time:
Airport Shuttle Airport <=> Hotel HK$140 per trip per person
Transfer: Airport to Hotel Hotel to Airport Round Trip
 Smoking  Non-Smoking  Twin Bedding  Double Bedding
Room Preference:
Others if any:
I / WE AGREE TO GUARANTEE THIS RESERVATION BY THE CREDIT CARD LISTED BELOW:
AMEX VISA MASTER DINERS JCB
Card Number: Expiry Date:
Card Holder: Signature:
The above terms & condition are accepted by : (Please sign)
Reservation(s) requested by:
Telephone No.: Fax No.: Email:
(For hotel use) Hotel confirmation number Date:
*********************************************************************************************************
Please forward the reservations to Mr. Leo Ng, Director of Sales – Corporate on or before August 01, 2012 via
facsimile at (852)3552 1199 or email: leong@cosmopolitanhotel.com.hk. Otherwise, room confirmation will be
subject to hotel’s availability thereafter.