Classroom clinics and residencies for grades 2-12
Fun, exciting, and enthusiastic activities that conform to the National Performing Arts Guidelines! Develop aesthetic analysis, musical vocabulary, and creativity with musicianship basics that will directly impact and improve the performance, understanding, and commitment of your young string players. All compositions and blues tunes can be proudly and effectively performed during regular concerts.
Composing Together is for musicians and non-musicians to explore basic composition techniques in a non-threatening and fun, team-oriented setting. Participants work in small groups to write music for computer, school ensemble, or visiting professional ensemble. Wreede often works in collaboration with the internationally acclaimed Del Sol String Quartet so students have a hands-on working relationship with professional players to read, revise, and perform their works.
Goldfish Blues is for elementary through college string programs that want to experience some alternative string styles and techniques in a satisfying, quick, and performable way. Especially popular with middle and high school students. Allows many students with less ability and more daring to shine!
“Painting with Sounds” is a one-day or on-going residency workshop for young musicians or non-musicians to experience the similarities in the creative process across artistic disciplines using visual arts and composition concepts like loud/soft, fast/slow, smooth/ragged/short, etc. Resulting compositions can be performed by the composers in multi-media presentations with the visual art using powerpoint and traditional or found-object instruments.
“Introducing Improv” is a one-hour workshop for young string players with at least one year of music classes through college students. It’s also great for adult and youth music camps, orchestra sectionals, and careers-for-string-players events. Participants explore groove, backbeat, comping (accompaniments), interpreting melodies, and improvised soloing using simple jazz melodies. They will leave with the skills and sheet music to start their own bands.
“Telemann Concerto arrangement for mass viola gatherings”. Your viola group can do this, too! See 132 violas perform the Telemann concerto (with a violarchestra accompaniment arranged by Katie) at the First Annual Northern California Viola Society ViolaMania event in Berkeley, Aug. 30, 2010. Were you there?