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Creative Strings Online Course

Creative Strings Podcast

A Classical Musician’s Guide to Join a Band
Find Your Vision & Reach Your Goals
Better Practice = Better Musician
To Cover or Not? A Youtuber DIlemma
Musical Creativity & Personal Development
Music for Peace Making & Reconciliation
How To Get The Best Amplified Sound for Bowed Strings
9 Reasons to Go Beyond Classical
Is Classical Music Too White?
Interview: Jazz Violinist Regina Carter
How Creative Musicians Practice
Beyond “the Chop”: Rhythmic Techniques for Bowed Strings
Storytelling, Philosophy, & Old Time Fiddle
Crossing the River of Suck
Interview: Jean Luc Ponty
An American Violinist in Europe
Flipping a Bach Partita (Split Screen)
Intersections & Invisibility in Jazz, Flamenco, & Classical
How to Improvise on a Song
How to Play Bossa & Samba
The Art & Life of Street Performers
Violinist Beyond Heavy Metal
Interview: Cellist Mike Block
360 Degree Songwriting Strategies
My Tribute to Prince (Split Screen)
Yamaha Electric Violin Unboxed (Split Screen)
Jazz Violin Caprice Sheet Music Free Download
How to Create Transcendent Musical Performances
Rock Violin Solo & Analysis
Jazz Violin Practice w/ Jason Anick

Christian Howes String Productions provides affordable string arrangements and remote, online string recording for albums, commercials, films, video games, and more. We also provide remote tracking of other instruments, score preparation, orchestration, transcription and more. Our clients include top producers and composers worldwide.

Christian Howes was voted #1 in the Downbeat Critics Poll (“Rising Stars/Violin”), named among the top three jazz violinists in the JazzTimes critics poll, and nominated for Violinist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist Association. He received the Residency Partner Award through Chamber Music America, earned a USArtists grant through the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and was invited by the U.S. State department to teach and perform as a cultural ambassador twice, in Ukraine and Montenegro. His release on Resonance Records, “Southern Exposure” earned recognition in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Downbeat, Jazz Times, as well as a six-night run at Lincoln Center. His release, “American Spirit” was named among the Best Jazz Albums of 2015″ by the Huffington Post.

A former Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music, Christian helps string players and teachers expand into improvisation, contemporary styles, and related subjects through his Creative Strings Academy (DIY online study), Creative Strings Workshop, student-friendly play-along lessons , and many other instructional resources.

Creative Strings is made possible in part by state tax dollars allocated by the Ohio Legislature to the Ohio Arts Council (OAC). The OAC is a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally, and economically.

chris@christianhowes.com

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