Spontaneous Inventions: Bobby McFerrin's 5-Day Workshop
Join 10-time Grammy Award winner Bobby McFerrin in an unprecedented 5-day
workshop at the Omega Institute's Rhinebeck, NY campus May 31-June 4 '04.
One of the world's best known vocal innovators and improvisers, a renowned
classical conductor, and the creator of some of the nation's popular
contemporary music, McFerrin combines his love of improvisation with his
conducting skills to lead us in a process of music making together.
Explore with Bobby a vast palette of vocalizations, musical styles, and
improvisation techniques. Through group chant improvisations (Circlesongs)
and other creative exercises, we deepen our musical imagination and expand
our artistic expressivity. Bobby's assistants will include Voicestra
colleagues Roger Treece, Joey Blake, and Judy Donaghy. This workshop is open to singers, musicians, and artists of all levels of experience - as well as
those who have never sing or performed before.
With a four-octave range and a vast array of vocal techniques, McFerrin is
no mere singer; he is music's last true Renaissance man, a vocal explorer
who has combined jazz, folk and a multitude of world music influences -
choral, a cappella, and classical music - with his own ingredients. In
recent years, he has combined his love of improvisation with his conducting
skills, extending his vocal journeys to larger groups of singers - whether
trained or not. McFerrin's solo concerts have always included audience
participation; McFerrin sees them not as 'singalongs' but as a genuine
collaborative process of making music in the moment.
For more information, visit
www.eomega.org or contact the Omega Institute
directly at 800.944.1001.
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