Austin TX
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Biography:
Martin Norgaard is the author of the groundbreaking method books Jazz Fiddle Wizard and Jazz Fiddle/Viola/Cello Wizard Jr. for Mel Bay Publications. He is currently a Doctoral Fellow in Music Education with a jazz emphasis at The University of Texas at Austin. Norgaard taught jazz and commercial strings at Belmont University and Vanderbilt University in Nashville for six years and was director of the Belmont Jazz String Quartet and Jazz String Septet, which have been featured at IAJE 2001, MENC 2002 and ASTA 2003. Norgaard is a frequent clinician at state and national conventions of ASTA, TMEA, OMEA, IMEA, MENC, and IAJE and has taught at summer workshops such as the IAJE Teacher Training Institute, the South Carolina Suzuki Institute, the Augusta Heritage Festival and Vanderbilt's International Fiddle School. Check out his web site at JazzFiddleWizard.com.What Middle School Students Need to Know
In order to perform a jazz solo. Participatory presentation based on the Jazz Fiddle Wizard Jr. series. The session draws analogies between language and improvising and demonstrates how to introduce jazz into the middle school classroom. Bring your instrument!
How to turn your orchestra into a jazz string big band
Reading session featuring arrangements that include improvised solo sections. Issues such as singing jazz rhythms, correcting bowings and shaping jazz lines are covered, as well as techniques for improvising over chord changes. Bring your instrument!
Essential solo techniques for high school students
In high school you can introduce very easy chord theory that will teach the students how to find the inner melodies and basic scales in a jazz chart. The session will also cover how to memorize tunes by singing the melody of the root movement.
Stealing from the greats
One can learn a lot about soloing by transcribing, playing and analyzing jazz solos. The clinician will demonstrate how one can learn everything from simple rhythm figures to advanced jazz solo techniques directly from actual jazz recordings. By organizing the solos chronologically one can organize the theory derived from it sequentially.
Jazz string reading session
Finally publishers are starting to pay attention to jazz strings. We will read through jazz string arrangements on levels ranging from very easy middle school to advanced high school and college.
Jazz Resources for the string educator
Books, arrangements, websites, and organizations devoted to jazz strings will be discussed. In addition the clinician will demonstrate how selected resources used in traditional jazz pedagogy can easily be used with strings.