In addition to activities as a voice/saxophone performance/curatorial team, Megan Ihnen & Alan Theisen present… offers impactful professional development experiences (workshops, masterclasses, and lectures) for students and musically engaged audiences of all experience levels.

We have brought these educational programs to UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance, University of Nevada Las Vegas, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, State University of New York at Fredonia, Louisiana State University, Appalachian State University, and more!

Allow us to assist you and your studios grow as artists and entrepreneurs.

Contact us so we can review your artistic goals and needs. This is a great way for us to learn more about what you are looking for and how MIATp can kickstart your musical futures. We are all in this creative world together!

Workshops

• Creative Placemaking Through Classical Music (MI)

• Music Tells a Story (MI)

• Make It Rain (MI)

• Vowel Shapes for Singers (MI)

• Toward a More Diverse Music Theory Curriculum (AT)

• Commissions for Performers and Composers: From Virtual Networks to Physical Products (MI/AT)

• Composing for Voice and Wind Instruments (MI/AT)

• Career Strategies for Chamber Ensembles (MI/AT)

Masterclasses/Lessons/Coaching

• Voice (specializations: extended techniques, stage presence, New Discipline, rhythm)

• Composition (specializations: wind instruments, jazz, cross-genre music)

• Saxophone (specializations: contemporary classical and 1920s jazz)

• Chamber music ensembles

Lectures/Course Teaching

• Music theory course guest teaching (contemporary music, form & analysis, counterpoint, music theory pedagogy, tonal harmony, art song analysis)

• Public lectures on contemporary music topics