{"id":7921,"date":"2026-08-11T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/?page_id=7921"},"modified":"2026-08-11T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:02:37","slug":"colleen-hallett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/festivals-and-workshops\/avenues\/colleen-hallett\/","title":{"rendered":"Colleen Hallett"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7910\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 281px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-3-281x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-3-281x300.jpeg 281w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-3-768x819.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-3-250x267.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-3-640x683.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-3.jpeg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Hallett<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Colleen Hallett graduated from the Senior Years Instrumental stream of Brandon University\u2019s concurrent B. Music\/B. Education program in 2023, with an applied concentration in French horn studies. She is the concert band and jazz band director at Neepawa Area Collegiate Institute, where she runs the grade 9-12 program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>When Colleen started at NACI in September of the 2024\/25 school year, there were zero French horn players enrolled in the high school band program (to which she said: <i>\u201cchallenge accepted\u201d<\/i>). By the winter concert in December, she had a thriving section of five horns across the junior and senior concert bands, all of whom started from square one that fall. In the recent 2025\/26 school year, the NACI horn section grew to be seven players strong.<\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>One of Colleen&#8217;s greatest passions is turning timid beginners into confident, independent \u201cFrench horn Jedis\u201d by using loads of encouragement, tricks of the trade, and a fair bit of Star Wars humour. Bring a horn and learn how to \u201cmaster the ways of the force\u201d (a.k.a. partials) so that you can build a stellar horn section in your program!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleen Hallett graduated from the Senior Years Instrumental stream of Brandon University\u2019s concurrent B. Music\/B. Education program in 2023, with an applied concentration in French horn studies. She is the concert band and jazz band director at Neepawa Area Collegiate Institute, where she runs the grade 9-12 program.\u00a0 When Colleen started at NACI in September [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":0,"parent":5507,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"class_list":["post-7921","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7922,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7921\/revisions\/7922"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}