Finale Clinic At PMEA 2012

I’ve decided to make a post (and quite possibly a permanent page) that contains active Music Educators or People/Entities that Twitter quite frequently about Interesting and Timely Music Topics. 

Here is the on-going and evolving criteria (to start with):

• Is a musician or music-related entity/group (Industry, Educator, Performer, etc.) that Tweets about relevant Music Ideas, Thoughts, Tips, or News OTHER THAN some type of self- promotion or group or ensemble promotion (i.e. twittering about their latest song, performance, or sale).  
• Has at least 100 Followers.
• Has at least 250 Tweets.
• Has been active on Twitter consistantly in the last 3 months and Tweets at least once a week.
• TWEETS quite a bit about music related topics that would be of interest to most musicians. (Yes, many of their Tweets will/can still be fun, off-topic, or just “stream of consciousness”.)
• Does not  Tweet anything inappropriate for students.

Many of the online Twitter directories do not include any-type of music education related category and those that do contain many non-related or non-active Twitter Accounts.   It’s my hope that list will take some of the “guess-work” and time out of the process of finding good Music Education related Tweets as all of the Twitter Accounts listed here are ones that I’ve reviewed myself and find very interesting and active.  As the school year starts, I hope to engage my college students in helping me to identify a more expansive list of Music Pedagogues that Twitter.

Here is a dozen Music Twitterers to start the list and for you to FOLLOW on Twitter:

1. Joseph Pisano @pisanojm
http://twitter.com/pisanojm
2. Carol Broos @musictechie
http://twitter.com/musictechie
3. Jason Heath @jasonheath
http://twitter.com/jasonheath
4. Alex Ruthmann @alexruthmann
http://twitter.com/alexruthmann
5. Brenda Muench @bmuench
http://twitter.com/bmuench
6. James Frankel @jimfrankel
http://twitter.com/jimfrankel
7. Ken Pendergrass @mystro2b
http://twitter.com/mystro2b
8.  Randall Foster @randallfoster
http://twitter.com/randallfoster
9. Andy Zweibel @Zweibz7
http://twitter.com/Zweibz7
10. William Bauer @wbauer
http://twitter.com/wbauer
11. SoundTree @soundtree
http://twitter.com/soundtree
12. MENC @menc
http://twitter.com/menc

Meeting the criteria very soon:
TI:ME – http://twitter.com/techmusiced
Amy Willis -http://twitter.com/awillis2
Keith Mason -http://twitter.com/keithmason
Scott Watson http://twitter.com/scott_watson

I’m looking to take this list to 100 in the near future.  I’m especially interested in those that actively TWEET great music-related materials and are fairly active Twitterers.   I’d love to see more composers, theorists, musicologists, music industry, and performer/educators (those that perform and educate), in addition to more top-notch Music Educators and Music Technologists on this list.

Please feel free to add yourself or others that you know that meet the criteria in the comment section here.   Even if you/they don’t meet the criteria list yet (but are emerging) please let us know below.  I will update this list sometime in mid-to-late September after the school year has started and “settled”.