Igor Demydczuk – BIO
The only barrier to music
is disbelieve of making it.
My music education
I have received my music education in 3 different countries (Poland, USA, Netherlands), which provided me with a wide view over the music culture, methods and approach to music. I have been working with a different age groups, different ethnic groups and on different musical levels. I find teaching music fascinating, seeing the your musicians grow with their creativity and musical knowledge.
My mission is to bring music culture to everyone, make it fun and educational for everyone. I believe that music is a powerful means, connecting, inspiring and enriching people.
My vision is to promote music anywhere I can. I want my students to not only learn to play music, but also to understand, appreciate and create music.
My values are to offer qualitative lessons, where the passion for music is the starting point and where there is respect and appreciation for both the music student and the music teacher. In addition, I am constantly looking for better and more innovative ways of grasping the music skills.
My most influential music teachers: My Mother-Jadwiga Litniowska, Zygmunt Wybraniec, Joachim Pichura, Bill Dobbins, Marc van Roon & Jasper Soffers.
First lets start with what music does not do: Music does not describes, does not narrate, does not tell stories.
– Music evokes, music suggests, music implies
And music opens up the mind of a child in an extraordinary way and we give the children an chance to move to really a special world of thinking.
And we get children therefore to try to understand, that the most important thing about music is to make your own music.
It is not that they shouldn’t reproduce the music, but they must to make their own, and they make it best thru singing.
Every child, giving the normal circumstances, has the capacity to sing.
Thru singing is how we engage children.
Thru singing is how we teach children to be literate, to read and write.
Thru singing is how we teach children to analyze.
With music you open up the mind of a child in a every special way,
different from drama,
different from dance,
different from visual arts.
Music in my view is on the top of at them.
The power of the thought transfer from music to all other areas of learning is hugely potent.
The neurological evidence for music is in a spectacular way. That is a bonus….
Music is worth teaching for its own sake.
It is worth teaching because it is good.
It is worth of teaching because it is unique.
It is worth of teaching because it empowers children is a spectacularly.
And when you have a 5th grate child coming on stage saying, I have made it myself, you know it is working.