The sounds of string instruments will echo through Robert Glidden Hall tomorrow at the fourth-annual String Fling, an improvisation and chamber music workshop.
Presented by the Athens Community Music School and the Student Division of the American String Teachers Association, this year's event will focus on alternative styles of performance, specifically improvisation.
Matt Turner will be this year's guest clinician, said Elizabeth Braun, director of the Athens Community Music School and the Orchestra Director for the School of Music. Braun added that he is an improv cellist and will be working with students throughout the day.
String majors will participate in workshops that stress their ability to master improvisation.
Ten violinists, three violists, three cellists and three bassists were selected through an application process to perform with the faculty chamber orchestra.
At 4 p.m., a performance will be held in room 101 in Glidden and is free and open to the public.
Turner said he has a lot of experience with these kinds of events and usually works with middle school and high school students.
My role is to introduce improvisation to string students
he said. Most of this is done by ear.
Apart from strengthening their love of music, Turner said he hopes students will walk away from the workshop with a new appreciation for this year's central concept.
I hope that I turn them on to improvisation and learning by ear he said.
Turner added that many music students are simply glued to the page that they're playing.
This workshop can really kill two birds with one stone he said. Not only will the students learn improvisation
but they'll also improve their aural skills.
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Alyssa Hansen
