Coach: Elisabeth Reed
Elisabeth teaches Baroque cello and viola da gamba at the University of California at Berkeley and at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she is co-director of the Baroque Ensemble. Recent teaching highlights include master classes at the Juilliard School, the Shanghai Conservatory and Middle School, and the Royal Academy of Music. A soloist and chamber musician with Voices of Music, Pacific Musicworks, Archetti, Sound Salon and Wildcat Viols, she has also appeared with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, the American Bach Soloists and the Seattle, Portland, Pacific, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestras. Elisabeth directs "Voice of the Viol", the renaissance viola da gamba ensemble of Voices of Music. She can be heard on the Virgin Classics, Naxos, Focus, Plectra, and Magnatunes recording labels and has many HD videos on the Voices of Music Youtube channel. She is a Guild-certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method™ of Awareness Through Movement ™ with a particular interest in working with musicians and performers.
Location: St James Episcopal Church
Description: Elisabeth will present some exercises based on the Feldenkrais Method™ of Awareness Through Movement™ to help you all feel more physically comfortable playing the viol. We will also work through a few of the exercises The Natural Violist by Thomas Baeté together and then apply the principles and concepts from the book to uncomplicated, mostly homophonic music.
*Private lessons can be arranged while Elisabeth is visiting Pasadena. Please contact Shanon Zusman (spzusman@gmail.com) if you are interested.
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