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 Thomas Yee21st Century Musician & tech: Possible ideas and Youtube E-Recital ConceptDecember 15, 2008 00:56
Hi, I've been a regular vistor to violinist.com, reading everything from violin pedagogy to what strings work best on an instrument. I've made my career so far mainly as an orchestral musician & teacher, performing with many groups in the San Francisco area & teaching privately, but I've have been doing with moderate success for some time now my own musical projects which has been a strong passion of mine. I had just completed a recent tour of San Diego and Mexico with my guitarist friend Jose Rodriguez, whom I went to school with for several years at the San Francisco Conservatory. We've released a cd recording of jazz/spanish/tango music that we produced entirely ourselves from the music, cd cover, the program notes, and production. Now these projects have gone hand in hand, as we've been playing musically diverse programs as our niche to an overall concert-going experience. We haven't necessarily gone as far as to do violin/guitar arrangements of radiohead or anything of sort, but we cover everything from virtuoso violin works (paganini, sarasate), our jazz arrangements with free improv, tango & piazzollas tango nuevo arrangements, classical, spanish, etc. Since 2006 to current times, we've been doing dynamic programs like this, filling very little seats to now having full moderately sized venues & recital halls. Now the public has really responded well and love our fresh approach, which had thinking about how to expose our music further and take it to the next level. A few days ago, I had compiled together a collection of pieces from our tours and put them together, loading them onto youtube. I then emailed all of my friends & family about the post and went on facebook to let people know of my newly created E-Recital Channel. This had me thinking about possibly trying to either promote music and try to generate a little more publicity. Do you think this is a good idea as far as trying to have students appreciate what we're doing. In fact, Gilles Apap, whom I grew up hearing in Santa Barbara, was a big inspiration of mine growing up, and I had some little girls in the San Diego come to a recent concert of mine and speaking with them afterwards, they were so thrilled to have come and many were not expecting to experience such a program. I've thought of using this idea to promote our music to management agencies and to make a press packet with our duo bio, pictures, concert dvd, and our cd. Anyways, perhaps those interested can see what we're doing: http://www.youtube.com/user/thomasyeeDOTnet I appreciate everyone for taking the time to hear my story, as this is my first blog on violinist.com. I'd love to know your thoughts! Kindest Regards, Thomas Yee thomasyee.net
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