Certification

Channing Griggs, MT-BC Music Therapist, Board-Certified

Education

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL Bachelor of Music—Music Therapy 2017

  • Acquired over 1100 hours of teaching and facilitating music sessions employing creative teaching methods based on students’ needs.

  • Studied classical clarinet under the direction of Deborah Bish

  • Pi Kappa Lambda Honor Society

  • Dean’s List all semesters

  • Distinguished Student Scholarship awarded by College of Music

  • Piano—basic proficiency in classical technique

  • World Music Department (Chinese ensemble, Andean music ensemble, Gamelan ensemble, old-time music ensemble)

  • In the course of World Music Department, invited to join ARTISM by Dr. Michael Bakan, Head of the Ethnomusicology and creator of the ARTISM Project.  ARTISM is a performing ensemble that joins virtuoso musicians with children on the Autism Spectrum to create original compositions based on improvisational play

Broward College, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Associate in Music Performance, 2015

  • Classical performance on clarinet with Carey Kleiman and pianist Dr. Jure Rozman.

  • Jazz theory and performance with saxophonist Jason Hainsworth and guitarist Fernando Ulibarri.

  • Scholarship Student awarded by Visual and Performing Arts Dept

  • Piano technique with pianist and pedagogy expert Rosalie Gregory

Practical Musical Experience

  • Performed in the course of fifteen years in over 2700 professional gigs on clarinet, vocals, alto sax, banjo, and bass throughout the Caribbean Islands, the northeast United States, Colorado, and Key West in musical styles derived from world folk roots, traditional jazz, and classical music

  • “INSTRUMENTALIST OF THE YEAR”, -THE IGGIES Key West Music Awards

  • Private and Group Music Teacher since 2018

Applied Music Mastery

  • 31 years of classical clarinet study, including three years of college studio participation

  • Took up clarinet at age 10, as a youth studied classical technique with members of the United States Army Band, Washington D.C. and with Marine Corps Band, Quantico, VA

  • 20 years of alto-saxophone technique

  • 16 years of guitar technique

  • 15 years of banjo claw-hammer technique

  • 4 years college level Classical Piano Technique