Coach: Joanna Blendulf
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Description: Playing with Time I: In our first 50 minutes, we will work through bowing strategies in both duple and triple meter (and when they are bound by tripla or sesquialtera proportion), with a focus on bow technique for clarity, beauty, and timeliness! Exercises adapted from selections in Petrucci's Odhecaton Canti A (1501) will be provided in all clefs. I will demonstrate first, then we will all play together! 

Playing with Time II: will involve creating simple and complex diminutions in both duple and triple meter, based on division examples from Diego Ortiz's Tratado de glosas (1553). Special attention will be given to playing these divisions with sprezzatura and using bowing concepts from our first session!

Joanna Blendulf is associate professor of music in baroque cello/viola da gamba at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Joanna has performed and recorded with leading period-instrument ensembles throughout the United States and abroad. She is currently co-principal cellist and principal viola da gamba player of the Portland Baroque Orchestra and has also performed as principal cellist of Pacific MusicWorks, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra, and the New York Collegium. Joanna is an avid chamber musician, performing and recording with the Catacoustic Consort, Ensemble Mirable, Music of the Spheres, Nota Bene Viol Consort, Parthenia, and Wildcat Viols. She is also sought after as a teacher and chamber music coach and has served as a classroom and private instructor at the University of Oregon and the Berwick Academy. Joanna holds performance degrees with honors from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Jacobs School of Music, where she earned a Performer's Certificate for her accomplishments in early music performance.

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