Bridget Sweet is Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois where she teaches music education pedagogy, including choral methods and literature, middle-level general music methods, graduate courses in music education, as well as a course focused on the development of healthy practices for all musicians.
Dr Sweet has worked extensively with adolescent singers as a teacher, clinician and adjudicator. She wrote the books Growing Musicians: Teaching Music in Middle School and Beyond (2016) and Thinking Outside the Voice Box: Adolescent Voice Change in Music Education (2019).
Her research interests include middle level choral music education, female and male adolescent voice change, empowering music educators, health and wellness, and intersections of diversity and the music classroom.
She is earning licensure to be a Body Mapping Instructor through the Association for Body Mapping Education.
Past Short Courses
Thursday 20th April 2023
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
Body Mapping: Balance and Breathing
Dr Bridget Sweet
During the first hour (BALANCE), we will explore our six places of balance to find freedom and dynamic buoyancy in movement. During the second hour (BREATHING), we will accurately map breathing structures to promote more efficient and effective breathing.
Thursday 17th November 2022
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
Supporting Trans And Gender Expansive Voices In The Music Classroom
Dr Bridget Sweet
During this session, we will consider terminology surrounding the vocal mechanism, gender identification, sexual identity, and voice change. Perspectives from trans and gender-expansive musicians will be shared via multiple media sources. Practical teaching strategies and considerations for repertoire will also be discussed.
Thursday 5th May 2022
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
Thinking Outside The Voice Box: Adolescent Voice Change In Music Education
Dr Bridget Sweet
The goal of this workshop is to encourage new and holistic ways of thinking about the [assigned at birth] female and [assigned at birth] male adolescent changing voice.