This week came two new wonderful exercises to train writing in a form of a song. Several students have already tried them out and saw that it is not necessary to spend many years to learn how to write beautiful and interesting music.
read moreYesterday’s concert in Kuusalu – “Creating music” – was another proof that audience like to participate actively in a concert. The last “audience” piece came out different compared to the previous one, cause there were some older students in the audience, who used their knowledge and invention very skillfully to complete the task. So, me […]
read moreToday’s concert in Rakvere passed according to its title – “Creating music”. The last piece was composed directly at end of the concert by the audience (kids, parents, students – all who came) and performed by Estonian guitarist Vahur Kubja and me. It sounded nice! The piece is all written down, well preserved and now […]
read moreYesterday my 6 y.o. composers-performers students played in a concert. Nice variety of pieces and techniques they presented was warmly received by the audience. Good start. Keep working on the concept and the method.
read moreET Nüüdseks on 16 õpilast, kes on osalemas selles uues ja põnevas programmis. Nad õpivad ja teevad oma teoseid pärimusmuusika vaimus, pop laule (mõned neist kasutavad oma luuletusi), kaasaegseid teoseid soolokitarrile ja improviseerivad. Minu õpetamiskogemuse ajal (üle 15 aastat) ei ole ma näinud õpilasi nii huvitatud kitarrimängust ja komponeerimisest nagu nüüd – kui nad saavad […]
read moreOne of the interesting features of being a composer-performer (playing your own works) is that you can always change and vary, add and remove something from your works – play them differently without being afraid of criticism. Actually, these days it seems to me pretty ridiculous of writing something down, creating really precise notes and […]
read moreNew study year has started well and I got a lot of new young students! Most of them are beginners, but also few advanced. Everyone is so different, but there is something that unites them. And it is that… They all wanna do their own music!!! No matter if it is 7 y.o. or 16 y.o. […]
read moreFrom September I start teaching at two well-known schools in Estonia, Tallinn: Georg Ots music school and Vanalinna Hariduskolleegium. I got an opportunity to introduce to the people here a new program called “Composer-Performer”. The program itself is a relatively new direction in most of the modern educational establishments all around the world and it is now for the […]
read moreMy Composer – Performer exam program (part of my Thesis/final work) for the 3rd of June is becoming more and more interesting: – solo guitar Sonatas with some influence of Lapish (Sami) traditional music – duo for two violins (arr. for two guitars) with African rhythms – duo with African singer (African rhythms) – trio: […]
read moreToday had my thesis defense. Went well. Feels like I am on the right track with my ideas 🙂 Topic was “A PROCESS: FROM A PERFORMER TO A COMPOSER-PERFORMER IN CLASSICAL GUITAR”.
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