Teacher
I give lessons, coaching sessions and ongoing classes and workshops for adults and present school assemblies and classroom workshops for children.
LESSONS
- MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: viol, early violin, rebec, vielle
- MUSICAL SKILLS: remedial sight singing and ear training, improvisation, playing by ear, for both singers and instrumentalists
COACHING SESSIONS
- Musical entrepreneurship
- Grant writing
- Publicity and promotion
- Concert production
- Teaching-artist
ONGOING CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
- Improve for All (2020-23) More than forty ongoing classes, short workshops and special events, all on Zoom, for more than 200 students. Topics: historical improvisation, performance practice, musical skills, special topics in medieval, renaissance and baroque music, English Country Dance.
- Christmas Collegium (2013-present) A week of lectures and hands-on classes on topics in early and traditional music
- Tune-Up (2012-present) Musical skills for choral groups (music reading/section blending)
- What’s That Note, Inc. (2000-present) Musical skills (sight singing/ear training/audition techniques) for amateur and professional singers
- SoundCatcher: Play by Ear (1983-present) Combining what you hear and what you know to create a practical method of playing music by ear
- Washington (DC) Academy of Early Music (1982-90) Classes in beginning viol, recorder, performance practice and early music ensemble for adult amateurs
SCHEDULED WORKSHOPS
Workshop Director
INTERNATIONAL
- Weekend Workshops in Berlin, Germany; Mayzieu and Dizier, France; Hong Kong, China
NATIONAL
- Chesapeake Workshop: 4 week-long summer workshops 1985-89
- SoundCatcher—Play by Ear: 10 week-long summer workshops 1982-present
Workshop Teacher (week-long unless noted)
- VIOL: 19 national workshops for the Viola da Gamba Society of America. 23 local workshops including Viols West, and week-end workshops including Boston, New York, Boulder, Albuquerque, Rochester, Tallahassee, Detroit, Duluth, San Diego, Albany
- EARLY MUSIC: Colorado Recorder Academy (co-director), Pinewoods, Madison Early Music Festival, Chesapeake Recorder Workshop (5 years, co-director for 2)
- TRADITIONAL MUSIC: Buffalo Gap Family Week, Upper Potomac Fiddle Retreat (2 years)