Coaches: Shanon Zusman, Malachai Bandy

Location: St James Episcopal Church, South Pasadena, CA

Description: We'll spend the day in small ensembles, one-per-part, joined by Shanon or Malachai as our coach, rotating groups and coaches in three periods. Consorts will be pre-selected and music distributed one week in advance. Our focus will be on improving ensemble playing, with an emphasis on articulation, dynamics, and phrasing. *Please note there is a strict registration deadline of June 11, so we can put the groups together and carefully select the best repertoire for the day in advance. We need to know how many coaches to have so each group will have a coach.

Shanon Zusman holds a doctorate in Early Music Performance from the USC Thornton School of Music, where he studied Baroque double bass and viola da gamba with James Tyler…Read more.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy graduated cum laude with Distinction in Research and Creative Work from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music with double bass and music history degrees…Read more.

Class Materials: TBD