This intensive mini-conference includes masterclasses, group lessons, and chamber-music coaching for performers and teachers on bowed strings seeking professional development.
This week-long festival pushed me out of my comfort zone, introduced me to musicians from all around the world, and helped me grow beyond my wildest dreams. I still get goosebumps thinking about all of the magical late-night jam sessions that inspired us to make music until dawn.
Angelita Eugenia J
Teacher and Violinist
Creative Musicianship – improvisation, arranging, composition, internalization (modal, harmonic, rhythmic), contemporary styles, and related subjects.
Teen, adult, professional, amateur, advanced jazz players, beginning jazz players—all welcome.
Why You Want to Attend This:
✓Become creatively self-expressed and develop your musical voice.
✓Internalize harmony on your instrument.
✓Become fluent in contemporary styles so you can jam with musicians outside of classical music.
✓Be able to use amplification and effects.
✓Get gigs and expand career opportunities.
✓Teachers: Gain age-appropriate sequences to share with students.
✓Gain comfort in improvisation, composition, and arranging.
Amplification, Looping, & Effects in the Classroom, Practice Room, & Stage
This session presents an overview of how to use loops and effects as a tool for teaching, practice, and performance. Gain insights into how to create loops and how to go beyond the basics.
Blues as a historical and cultural phenomenon
As a literary form
As a musical form – harmonically/melodically/rhythmically, in many iterations
The practice of combining the major and minor pentatonic and/or blues scales
Examining how bass lines and inner voice patterns show up in common iterations of 12 bar blues, and various common rhythmic/dance forms.
Free Improvisation and Non-Tonal Composition
Participants will compose in small groups using “composition games.” During this interactive session you will feel empowered to perform your compositions and apply what you learned in your daily practice or teaching.
Conducted Group Improvisation
Using cue cards and a system of hand signals, Christian teaches and leads conduction of large group improvisation. Engage in call and response, looping, vamps, modal grooves, occasional musical chaos.
Participants can also conduct the ensemble!
Conduction is a popular practice among contemporary ensembles worldwide, including small groups and even orchestras.
Christian’s approach to conduction borrows from a variety of sources and caters to the skill set of classically trained string players.
Apply a modal approach as an improviser, arranger, or composer.
Internalizing Harmony on the Violin, Viola, and Cello
Applying harmony on violin, viola, and cello
Including voice leading arpeggios, scales, and double stops and triple stops.
Internalizing chord progressions via bass line, inner voices, and sequential patterns.
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Helped me grow beyond my wildest dreams
This week-long festival pushed me out of my comfort zone, introduced me to musicians from all around the world, and helped me grow beyond my wildest dreams. I still get goosebumps thinking about all of the magical late-night jam sessions that inspired us to make music until dawn.
Angelita Eugenia J
Teacher and Violinist
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I'll be back next year, and the next
I left cherishing the music I have to share. I took away a re-kindled desire to keep at it, to learn the tools with patience and dedication. To leave my ego out of it, and walk toward a goal, with no need to get there. I'll be back next year, and the next.
Ruth Einstein
Teacher and Cellist
Music Business Mastermind Seminar
This session is a seminar based on the program, The Music Biz Mastermind. Christian has used this to help many professional musicians attract more projects, gigs, students, and clients, as detailed in testimonials from graduates HERE.