Cal Wiersma Class: Rehearsal Techniques in Ravel’s String Quartet: Sunday, April 6, 3pm EDT скачать в хорошем качестве

Cal Wiersma Class: Rehearsal Techniques in Ravel’s String Quartet: Sunday, April 6, 3pm EDT

As we celebrate Maurice Ravel at 150, learn how to tackle some of the challenges in his chamber music! How many times have you heard the phrase ” Just Play Together!!” from a coach or a colleague, and then thought, “how do I do that”? How can we better “play together”? How do we feel a phrase together? How do we do rubato together? How can we do a ritard or accelerando “together”? Using Ravel’s String Quartet as a template, violinist and chamber music coach Cal Wiersma will lead a class on rehearsal techniques to find group pulse, play freely and with rubato and phrasing. In this cross between a master class and lecture, Cal Wiersma will be joined by a string quartet of ACMP members: Lori Horowitz, Corinna da Fonseca Wollheim, Jeff Chasnow, and Ben Pfeifer. Together they will explore a quartet full of these challenges, the Ravel String Quartet, and share rehearsal techniques, playing strategies, and ways of thinking that will help us all play better together! You will come away with some inspiration, and new tools for tackling this difficult yet so rewarding chamber music yourself. About coach Calvin Wiersma: Calvin Wiersma, violinist, has appeared throughout the world as a soloist and chamber musician. He was a founding member of the Meliora Quartet, winner of the Naumburg, Fischoff, Coleman, and Cleveland Quartet competitions. Mr. Wiersma was a member of the Manhattan String Quartet for 20 years, and also a founding member of the Figaro Trio. In addition to worldwide touring with these ensembles, Mr. Wiersma’s wide range of musical activities have recently involved national and international tours with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and his contemporary music ensemble Cygnus. He has appeared at numerous Music Festivals including Aspen, Vancouver, Rockport, Bard, Portland, Crested Butte, North Country, Central Vermont, New Hope, Interlochen, An Appalachian Summer, Cape May, and Music Mountain. A noted performer of contemporary music, Mr. Wiersma is a member of Cygnus and the Locrian Chamber Ensemble, has toured extensively with Steve Reich, and has appeared with Speculum Musicae, Ensemble 21, Parnassus, and NYNME. Mr. Wiersma maintains an active private teaching studio, and he has also held academic teaching positions at the Ithaca College School of Music, Purchase College Conservatory of Music, Lawrence Conservatory of Music, Florida State University, Brandeis University, and the Longy School of Music. He has conducted master classes throughout the world, has been on the Faculties of several summer programs, and an artist in residence at numerous institutions including Colgate University, CalArts, the Smolny Institute in Moscow, Russia, and CMI in Khiryat Shemona, Israel.