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The Interpreting Music Seminar
What Is The Interpreting Music Seminar?
Interpreting music means playing someone else's composition and seeking to understand and portray that person's expressive impulse. The Interpreting Music Seminar is a set of guided activities that provide techniques for the study, practice, and performance of repertoire, both solo and ensemble. You will emerge from the seminar with the ability to interpret music with freedom and creativity.
Who Should Take This Seminar?
The Interpreting Music Seminar is both for newcomers and for accomplished musicians who want to improve their craft. It is especially suitable for musicians who are seeking inspiration, who are hampered by performance anxiety, or who are striving to play expressively without being distracted by technical challenges. Mr. Chappell’s instruction works simultaneously with all instruments, all skill levels, and all styles of music. The age range is teens and adults.
How Will You Benefit?
Interpreting music provides a life-enriching experience that you wouldn't find otherwise. In the Music Interpretation Seminar, you will discover how to interpret with clarity and confidence, achieve consistency in your playing, overcome the limitations of your instrument, convey specific feelings, and communicate with an audience. And you will enjoy a fun, positive, and inclusive community experience.
A Message from Jeffrey
"Playing a piece of music shouldn't be a trick that you learn in order to repeat it over and over. It is better to know the piece from the viewpoint of its creator, a composer who chose from unlimited possibilities in order to arrive at this particular arrangement of sounds. And then to play it with spontaneity. Check out Lesson #4 on the One-Minute Music Lessons page."
World Class Music Instruction
Jeffrey Chappell is a gifted, innovative teacher who is renowned for his ability to connect with every student regardless of age or ability. He brings an amazing diversity of experience to his teaching. He is a classical concert pianist, a jazz musician, a recording artist, a composer, an improviser for silent films, and an author of articles for music magazines. He is the Director of Jazz Studies at Goucher College in Baltimore and serves on the faculty of the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C. He studied at the Curtis Institute, the Peabody Conservatory, and the BMI Musical Theater Workshop.