Forney ISD LEVEL UP
​Music Workshop 2023 

​NOTE: Registration is currently open for this workshop.  This session is FREE to elementary music educators!  

Presenter: Matthew Trevino, North East ISD

Step Up Your Percussion GameJoin West Music and Forney ISD for the second of five workshops on professional development for the music classroom. The series started this summer and continues throughout the 2023-24 school year. Our Texas-based Sales Consultant Larissa Perez will be onsite at each workshop with a variety of printed resources, movement props, instruments, and accessories that you can bring back to your classroom.  It's time to level up your instrument group play! Matthew Trevino will be sharing his top strategies and rehearsal techniques that are proven winners in his practice and with the Roan Forest percussion ensemble, Sonido. Learn about Matthew's best recruitment ideas and arrangement tips that will get you and your kids jammin'. There will be plenty of xylophone playing, so come ready to make some music! 
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September 9, 2023 / 9:00-4:00
Willett Elementary School
1896 Gateway Blvd., Forney, Texas 75126​

REGISTER HERE! 

​Matthew Trevino is in his 14th year teaching elementary music, and his 9th year teaching the amazing students at Roan Forest Elementary. Trevino is a 2022 and 2023 CMA Foundation Music Teacher of Excellence Recipient. He has also been a semifinalist for the 2018, 2021, and 2022 Music Educator GRAMMY. Since establishing his percussion group Sonido in 2015, the group has been invited to perform at the opening ceremonies of the 2017 AOSA Conference in Fort Worth. Sonido was an “invited ensemble” for the 2020 TMEA Convention. They have collaborated with recording artists Daniel Robledo, Jane Monheit, and Eric Marienthal. They have also performed for the cast of STOMP. Trevino is a regular clinician at the TMEA Convention, and he currently serves as the TMEA Region 12 Elementary Division Chair. You can find him on TikTok @Mr.Trevino_TheMusicMan.

West Music Sales Consultant

During the day, Larissa Perez is 100% focused on business. But catch her after work and she’s singing in a women’s barbershop quartet and sharing marching band stories from when she played piccolo in “The Golden Band from Tigerland” at Louisiana State University. In addition to being certified in Kodaly, First Steps, Conversational Solfege, and Orff-Schulwerk Level 1, Larissa holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from LSU and a Master of Music Education degree from the University of North Texas. She taught Pre-K through 5th grade elementary music for more than 20 years in the North Texas area before coming to West Music. ​

Hotel information can be found here:
Best Western - Forney

Holiday Inn Express - Forney

For more information on the area or additional hotels, reach out to Mr. Luna at maluna@forneyisd.net!  ​

FUTURE WORKSHOPS

November 11, 2023
with Paul Corbiere for World Music Drumming

March 2, 2024
with Artie Almeida for General Music Activities

April 27, 2024
with Tereasa Evans and Larissa Perez for Drums Alive in Action