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Mark O'Connor String Camp (New York City & Tennessee)Last edited by Mark O'Connor. When: Where: Dear string students, We are pleased to announce that the Mark O’Connor String Camp will take place in New York City July 27th thru 31st, 2009 at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School & the Society for Ethical Culture. On-line registration will be available beginning in January at www.markoconnor.com. We will reach 150 to 200 students who will experience five days of intensive training and instruction in a multitude of string playing styles from myself, as well as from some of the world's finest performers and teachers, each in their specialty area. These areas include Folk Fiddling, Jazz, Classical, Celtic, Bluegrass, Klezmer, East Indian, Texas Fiddling and Hip-Hop. These are just a few of the many styles and disciplines that each student gets to explore in a no-holds-barred intensive educational environment. Created in the hills of Tennessee 15 years ago, with a successful transition to the university campus setting in California, and now reaching 350 students annually, the Mark O’Connor Camps have become internationally known events featured on such prominent media as CBS Sunday Morning, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. I hope you will join us for this unique opportunity to study from twenty of the top string players in the world in an incredible variety of disciplines. We will enroll intermediate students (having studied any style of string playing consistently for at least two years) and advance students. We accept children as young as eight as well as adult professional musicians and teachers alike expanding their musical horizons as participants of the Camp. (under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult) The “New York City” Camp will also offer instruction for viola, cello and doublebass by some of the great genre-bending artists on those instruments today. We will also feature a five-day teacher’s training program on the new O’Connor Method Book I published by Alfred Publishing (release date, Spring of 2009). For more details on obtaining one of the Teacher Training class spots at a reduced enrollment cost, please contact us directly as space for the will be limited to 15 for that part of the program. The tuition for the Camp is $600 and that includes classes and concerts only. All meals will be on your own, (plenty of food within walking) and the reasonably priced rooms at YMCA where the entire camp will be staying over nights is on your own. Reservations are recommended the earlier the better. There will be some Camp events at the Y like after hours jamming and socializing. We will also include a Teacher's Training program at our NYC camp featuring O'Connor's Method Book I written by Mark O'Connor and nationally know string educator Bob Phillips and published by Alfred Publishing. Both authors will be teaching the program and there will be In Service Credit, Sincerely Yours, Mark O’Connor “It is our hope that all of the string family will find this a great place in New York to learn more about music, recognize the potential of music making, and what reaching for the unknown in artistic endeavors can do for feeding the musical soul.” - Mark O’Connor
“(O’Connor’s music) makes the very notion of boundaries between classical and popular music seem laughable.” - Baltimore Sun Q: What do you hope students will take away from the New York City String Camp? MOC: My first goal with students of my Strings Conference is to engage them with music like they have never heard before; energize them and inspire them for months afterwards, perhaps a lifetime. At the Conference we want to be able to share with the students the many ways that string playing works in this era, in the current culture and environment. By studying traditions and disciplines that are associated with a myriad of music styles, it can provide glimpses into seeing how string playing has evolved in modern times. To have a basic understanding of what a blues phrase is, how to play a couple of fiddle tunes, how to create some string arrangements, how to approach a jazz chord chart, what an East Indian scale is, learning something that is Asian, Middle Eastern or Appalachia and Bluegrass I feel is a strength, not a weakness. This model is designed to work hand in hand as well as add and multiply the great traditions and effects of classical teachings and literature. I feel the well rounded string student of tomorrow is the one that is going to find more work, and more satisfaction within the global environments in which we all work and perform in. Q: Why should today’s string students be interested in multiple styles? MOC: Today’s performers (myself included) combine environments and traditions from American music styles, incorporating them in to the classical setting discovering and creating an American style of string playing in the process. The style and musical results are born out of the melting pot. It involves journey, movement and wide-open spaces of both landscape and musical optimism. The place where musical environments meet is what I am known for, and what appears to be a growing trend in the successful performing musician today. My career provides many examples such as the case of jazz meeting with fiddling creating Texas-Style Fiddling or contest fiddling; jazz meeting Bluegrass to create “newgrass; and classical meeting fiddling to create the Appalachia Waltz projects with Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer, my concertos, string quartets, solo violin pieces and piano trios, the fiddle traditions can instruct and enhance the new ideas and concepts of making string playing work within the environments we find ourselves today. To register, or for more information: CommentsNo one has commented on this event yet. |
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