Dana Monteiro will be visiting the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance as part of the Robert M. Trotter Visiting Professor Series.
Saturday, October 8, 2022
10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Duck Samba
Workshop and Masterclass
Gerlinger Annex Room 119
1:30–3:30 PM
Duck Samba
Workshop and Masterclass
Gerlinger Annex Room 119
4:00–6:00 PM
Duck Samba
Workshop and Masterclass (Repique sectional)
Gerlinger Annex Room 119
Sunday, October 9, 2022
1:00–3:00 PM
Duck Samba
Consultation with Reilly Gault
Gerlinger Annex Room 119
Monday, October 10, 2022
9:00–10:50 AM
Elementary Methods and Lab
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 140
Samba in the Classroom
Dr. Monteiro will lead a hands-on session teaching the basics of samba percussion. Participants will leave with an understanding of the techniques used to play various samba instruments, methods for teaching group percussion, and how the inclusive musical structure of samba impacts the classroom environment.
1:00–2:00 PM
Duck Samba
Workshop and Masterclass
Gerlinger Annex Room 119
6:30–7:30 PM
CNAfME Presentation
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 140
Just stay two weeks ahead of the students: Learning new skills on the job as an in-service music teacher.
This lecture will discuss the difficulties of teaching music in an urban school and how these challenges led him to reorganizing his music program to follow a non-traditional path. This session will address the role of teacher as learner. Dr. Monteiro will share his experiences in restarting his own music education to learn Brazilian percussion and how the acquisition of new skills and perspectives can alter teaching practices and outcomes.
8:00–9:00 PM
Percussion Ensemble
Workshop and Masterclass
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 190
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
12:00–1:00 PM
Duck Samba
Workshop and Masterclass (Tamborim sectional)
Gerlinger Annex Room 119
2:00–4:00 PM
Duck Samba
Workshop and Masterclass (Caixa sectional)
Gerlinger Annex Room 119
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
1:00–3:00 PM
Duck Samba
Workshop and Masterclass (Repique sectional)
Gerlinger Annex Room 119
Thursday, October 13, 2022
8:30- 9:50 AM
Music in World Cultures
Clinical Services Building Room 250
The Samba Schools and Carnival of Rio de Janeiro.
Dr. Monteiro will discuss the communities and parade organizations of the Rio de Janeiro carnival. This lecture will include an overview of the samba-enredo style of samba and will focus on the inner workings of the bateria, the percussion section of the samba school. Participants will gain an understanding of the music’s structure, rhythmic vocabulary, and the ways samba school activities foster a sense of community among members.
12:00–1:50 PM
Duck Samba
Workshop and Masterclass (Tamborim & Cholcalho sectional)
Gerlinger Annex Room 119
2:00- 3:00 PM
Graduate Seminar
Gaining Access: Finding a place within a Rio de Janeiro community.
Frohnmayer Music Buidling Room 219B (conference room)
Dr. Monteiro will discuss his experiences conducting fieldwork in the samba communities of Rio de Janeiro to offer insights into navigating barriers, gatekeepers, and being accepted by community members. This discussion will also cover how these experiences have shaped Dr. Monteiro’s teaching practices in a New York City high school.
Friday, 14 October 2022
10:00–11:30 AM
Duck Samba
Workshop and Masterclass
Gerlinger Annex Room 119
12:00- 1:30 PM
Reception with light refreshments
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 140
2:00–3:00 PM
Duck Samba
Workshop and Masterclass
Gerlinger Annex Room 119
3:15- 4:45 PM
THEME Presentation
Collier House 103
Teaching Samba: A participatory approach to school music.
Dr. Monteiro will discuss how the participatory characteristics of samba percussion have solved many of the challenges of urban music education. This lecture will present an alternative model for a school music program and address how participatory music can effectively bridge the gap between school and community music.
Dana Monteiro has twenty years of experience as a music educator in the New York City public school system. He holds a B.S. in music education from N.Y.U., a M.A. in music education from Teachers College, Columbia University and a doctoral degree in music education from Boston University. Originally a classical trumpet player, his interest in Brazilian music began on a trip to Rio de Janeiro, where he was brought by local musicians to the Vila Isabel Samba School. Since that first visit, Monteiro has made 23 study related trips to Brazil to learn and perform samba percussion and to conduct research for his dissertation titled Samba: The Sense of Community in Participatory Music. Monteiro has studied at over twenty samba schools in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In addition, he has made visits to samba schools and community music ensembles throughout the United States as well the United Kingdom, Japan, Uruguay, Argentina, and the Cape Verde Islands to study local musical practices and more importantly, the various methods for how music is taught.
Monteiro was a panel discussant on alternative practices in music education at the 7th International Symposium of the Sociology of Music Education, a presenter in the Education Section at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in 2013. Monteiro has conducted workshops in Brazilian percussion at the 2015 Teaching World Musics Symposium at Northern Illinois University, the Evanston School of Samba in Chicago, at the Berklee School of Music, and Boston University. He recently conducted samba workshops internationally in El Salvador, Antigua and Barbuda, Mexico, and Nigeria.
His current project, Harlem Samba has had great success educating thousands of public school students in Harlem, New York City and is featured as a case study in the Music Educator’s Journal and books The Child as Musician, The Oxford Handbook of Applied Musicology, and Engaging in Community Music. The group has been awarded the Brazilian International Press Award for "Best Institution for the Promotion of Brazilian Culture in the United States" as well as a NAMM “Best Communities for Music Education” School of Merit. The group was a featured performer for the Clinton Global Initiative and presented at the TED Talks Live conference in New York City.
Monteiro was awarded "Outstanding Educator of the Year" by Education Update in 2015. In 2016, he received the Big Apple Award from the New York City Department of Education, the Lincoln Center Arts Teacher of the Year Award, and the NYC Men Teach Anchor Award. In 2021, Monteiro was the Manhattan winner of the Flag Award for Teaching Excellence. He is the author of The Samba School: A Comprehensive Method for Learning, Playing, and Teaching Samba Percussion and is a contributing author to the book Carnaval Sem Fronteiras: As escolas de samba e suas artes mundo afora.
For more information on Dana Monterio visit www.danamonteiro.com.