Ted Wiprud of the New York Philharmonic on Music Education in Finland and the USA
Ted Wiprud
Ted Wiprud is Director of Education for the New York Philharmonic. Among his duties are staging the Young People's Concert series originally made famous by Leonard Bernstein. Prior to this, he worked for several years doing music education and community outreach work for the Brooklyn Philharmonic, partnering with the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Public Library and places of worship around Brooklyn to bring music into these unconventional spaces. He is also a composer.
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Ted Wiprud, Director of Education for the New York Philharmonic, discusses the state of music education in Finland, the New York Philharmonic's Very Young Composers Program, and what the USA can learn from Finland’s music education model, in an interview recorded at the Learning Overtures: Finland Symposium held in early 2007.
