I'm looking forward to reuniting with my friends in the Apollo Chamber Players in a few weeks to play a work together that they commissioned from composer Kimo Williams called "With Malice Toward None". We'll also play my arrangement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony.
Friday, Aug. 22, 2025 at 8 PM at Miller Outdoor Theatre in Houston, TX. |
I'm honored to be featured on the latest "Follow Your Dream" Podcast. Robert Miller is an insightful interviewer who understands how the musician brain works. |
What started out as a creative project inspired over a beer at an ASTA conference with my friend Martin Norgaard turned into a two year quest to develop a system for teaching string players how to play modern jazz. My goal with this book was to encourage violin and viola players to think more like guitar players, focusing on the convenient advantage we upper string players have of a one-octave frame that our hands form on the fingerboard.
Using this frame, we develop a visual and muscle awareness of the finger shapes of modes, diminished, augmented, whole tone scales and quartal harmony (4ths.) This frame approach allows us to easily transpose and “sideslip”, which is a game changer for jazz improvisation.
Includes transcriptions and analyses with Martin Norgaard of solos by Jean Luc Ponty and Zbigniew Seifert. |
