Music Mavens

Ashley Walker is an author, educator, and amateur musician. Sheholdsdegreesin mechanical engineering and artificial intelligence, and she recently graduated from the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she was a three-time award winner. She lives in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit Ashley's website: www.ashleywalkerbooks.com. Maureen Charlesalso has an MFA in Writing for Children from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has worked for many years as a writer, editor, and writing coach. She sings, plays guitar and ukulele, and was married to an arranger, orchestrator, and composer of TV and film music. She lives in Pasadena, California. For more information, visit Maureen's website at www.maureencharles.com.

Prelude

Part I: Power to Innovate

1.     Macy Schmidt: Orchestrating Equity

2.     Lia Mice: Innovating Inclusion

3.     Katarina Benzova: Shooting Stars

Part II: Power to Perform

4.     Janet Dacal: Hitting Broadway Heights

5.     ValÉrie Sainte-Agathe: Stronger Together

6.     Kaoly Asano: Hearing the Inner Drummer

Part III: Power to Compose

7.     Nami Melumad: Cinematic Scoring

8.     Joanne Shenandoah: Standing in Power

9.     Kate Schutt: Presence Not Perfection

Part IV: Power to Improvise

10.  Kaila Mullady: Beatboxing Brilliance

11.  VÂn-Ánh VÕ: Tradition and Improvisation

12.  Regina Carter: Call and Response

Part V: Power to Produce

13.  Nova Wav: Songwriting and Producing Duo

14.  Maria Elisa Ayerbe: Engineering Latin Sound

15.  Sylvia Massy: Adventure Recording

Tribute to Sophie Xeon

Coda

Ovation

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