8 March - FREE - Roger Rocco Master Class
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:55 am
Hello all,
For those of you in the greater Chicagoland area (or those who can make the drive), brass pedagogue extraordinaire Roger Rocco will be giving a FREE master class at Mother McAuley High School on 8 March. Bring a horn if you'd like the chance to play (bringing just a mouthpiece is good, too) or just come to observe. Please feel free to bring recording devices. Details are below.
FREE
Roger Rocco Master Class
Saturday 8 March, 1pm
Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School
3737 West 99th Street
Chicago, IL 60914
(come in Entrance #17, around the back of the building)
Mr. Rocco is the former Principal Tuba of the Honolulu and Seattle Symphony Orchestras, and has taught at Northwestern University, VanderCook College of Music, Western Michigan University, and several other colleges and universities. He has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, notably on their Grammy-award-winning recording of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique under Sir Georg Solti. He was a longtime student of Arnold Jacobs and continues Jacobs' legacy of pedagogical excellence. He gives regular summer courses at VanderCook on brass pedagogy, has given joint seminars alongside Brian Frederiksen based around Mr. Frederiksen's "Arnold Jacobs Almost Live" presentations, was a contributor to Arnold Jacobs: Song and Wind, and has published numerous articles in The Instrumentalist magazine. His students are members of premiere orchestras and bands throughout the country and the world.
On a personal note, Mr. Rocco has had a profound effect on how I perform and teach. He is definitely one of my "gurus", and I can safely say that I would not be where I am today without his help. I cannot recommend attending this master class highly enough. I'd suggest bringing not only your mouthpiece and horn, but a notebook as well (and/or a recording device); whether I was reflecting after a lesson of my own, sitting in on another lesson, or participating in a master class, I always took pages of notes.
Hopefully some of you will be able to make it; I'd be there myself, were it not for the 4000 miles of land and sea between Chicago and me right now. Cheers.
Adam Snider
Honolulu Symphony
For those of you in the greater Chicagoland area (or those who can make the drive), brass pedagogue extraordinaire Roger Rocco will be giving a FREE master class at Mother McAuley High School on 8 March. Bring a horn if you'd like the chance to play (bringing just a mouthpiece is good, too) or just come to observe. Please feel free to bring recording devices. Details are below.
FREE
Roger Rocco Master Class
Saturday 8 March, 1pm
Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School
3737 West 99th Street
Chicago, IL 60914
(come in Entrance #17, around the back of the building)
Mr. Rocco is the former Principal Tuba of the Honolulu and Seattle Symphony Orchestras, and has taught at Northwestern University, VanderCook College of Music, Western Michigan University, and several other colleges and universities. He has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, notably on their Grammy-award-winning recording of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique under Sir Georg Solti. He was a longtime student of Arnold Jacobs and continues Jacobs' legacy of pedagogical excellence. He gives regular summer courses at VanderCook on brass pedagogy, has given joint seminars alongside Brian Frederiksen based around Mr. Frederiksen's "Arnold Jacobs Almost Live" presentations, was a contributor to Arnold Jacobs: Song and Wind, and has published numerous articles in The Instrumentalist magazine. His students are members of premiere orchestras and bands throughout the country and the world.
On a personal note, Mr. Rocco has had a profound effect on how I perform and teach. He is definitely one of my "gurus", and I can safely say that I would not be where I am today without his help. I cannot recommend attending this master class highly enough. I'd suggest bringing not only your mouthpiece and horn, but a notebook as well (and/or a recording device); whether I was reflecting after a lesson of my own, sitting in on another lesson, or participating in a master class, I always took pages of notes.
Hopefully some of you will be able to make it; I'd be there myself, were it not for the 4000 miles of land and sea between Chicago and me right now. Cheers.
Adam Snider
Honolulu Symphony