School of Music cello students refine their technique and artistry with former Juilliard String Quartet cellist Joel Krosnick.
This Masterful Strings masterclass is funded in part by The Barbara K. Steppel Memorial Faculty Fellowship in Cello.
Shelly Peiken ,'79, is a multi-platinum Grammy nominated songwriter best known for her #1 hits "What a Girl Wants" and "Come On Over Baby." She earned a Grammy nomination for the song "Bitch" recorded by Meredith Brooks. She’s had hundreds of songs placed on albums, and in TV and film.
In this master class, Peiken will talk about creativity and the pop music business in Los Angeles. The conversation will be mediated by the Head of Performance for the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Professor Scot Reese.
A nationally respected pedagogue, Rebecca Henry is the Chair of the Preparatory String Department at the Peabody Conservatory, where she teaches violin and viola. In this masterclass, Henry discusses string pedagogy best practices with UMD School of Music string students.
Masterful Strings is funded in part by The Tretter Distinguished Faculty Fellowship in Violin.
Come join in the contact improvisation jam, a participatory event exploring this dance technique, in which participants use physical points of contact with one another to explore and improvise movement together. It will be led by Alito Alessi, longtime contact improvisation practitioner, pioneering artistic director of the mixed-ability company DanceAbility International, and Guggenheim fellow. His DanceAbility method has been extremely influential worldwide in opening the doors of contemporary dance to be more accessible to people with disabilities.
Rooted in Xavier’s own Ground-Core technique (a Somatic dance technique) the class allows for each participant to identify and strengthen his/her own core, creating an awareness of how it shifts and moves throughout space. The instructor deconstructs various breaking movements which participants are then taught to perform. By making this movement accessible to any body type, the class helps create a new vocabulary for the practitioner, allowing for a better understanding of the body within all dance forms.
The Afro House Sound Experiment Workshop aims to encourage the exploration of noise, sound and music in a creative, enjoyable and interactive experience! Come and rock out with Scott Patterson, artistic director of Afro House, and a collection of musicians, sound artists and music lovers to create the sound that will be used in Afro House's Ebon Kojo: The Last Tribe.
