About the Program
NCMC's Suzuki cello faculty are excited to announce that Blake Brasch is coming to teach an afternoon of workshops and masterclasses on Sunday March 23rd, from 12-3pm! Blake is a Suzuki cello teacher trainer who is a faculty member at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford.
Our guest teacher will work with each of our cello group classes in turn. Then he will work with some of the Book 3+ students, and group class alumni, in a masterclass with a block of 15 minutes for each participating student. You should all plan to participate in this workshop afternoon, and you are invited to watch the parts where you are not actively participating.
A more detailed schedule will be available soon.
About the Instructor:
A respected teacher, Blake Brasch received a Certificate of Achievement from the Suzuki Association of the Americas (SAA) in 2009 and became registered teacher trainer in 2010. He is a frequent clinician at Suzuki institutes and workshops throughout the US and Canada and has presented at several SAA conferences. His students have been selected to participate in master classes and orchestras at the SAA conference in Minn.; to be principal players in area high schools, the Midwest Young Artists Orchestra, and the Illinois Music Educators State High School Orchestra; and are prize-winners in Society of American Musicians competition. His students that have chosen to pursue a career in music have been admitted to Northwestern University, the Eastman School of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Stanford University, University of Illinois, Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, Yale University, and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.
As an administrator, Blake was the Director of the Chicago Suzuki Institute and the Suzuki Program Director at the Music Institute of Chicago.
Registration deadline: Feb. 14th
Everyone will need to register for this event, even if you are already registered for group classes. (We need a formal commitment to this event from you so that we can run it!) There will be a nominal charge of $5 for those registered for group classes.
Those who wish to participate in a masterclass session (Book 3+ only) and/or are not currently registered for group classes will need to contribute $25 to participate.
A more detailed schedule will be available soon.