Elizabeth Zempel

Creative Concert Ideas for Young Children

This session presents creative and inspiring ideas for planning concerts with young children. Participants will discover practical approaches that help transform performances into positive and engaging experiences, fostering confidence, musical expression, stage presence, and enjoyment from the earliest years of music learning.

Through a variety of examples, the lecture explores ways to involve children actively, create meaningful concert themes, and encourage enthusiastic participation by both performers and audiences. All ideas are intended as flexible suggestions that can be adapted to different teaching situations, providing inspiration and practical starting points for successful and memorable children's concerts.

About Elizabeth Zempel

Elizabeth Zempel is director of the Falls Baptist Music School and professor at Baptist College of Ministry in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. She studied violin with renowned pedagogue Mimi Zweig and earned her master’s degree in violin performance from Indiana University.

For more than thirty years, Elizabeth has developed a wide-ranging music program that includes private lessons, string orchestras, ensembles, choirs, a symphony orchestra, and early childhood programs such as Music for Babes and Violin for Tots. Her students have won numerous competitions, performed at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago, and established music programs in the USA and abroad.