Performing Music without Tension
A body awareness workshop with an emphasis on relieving performance anxiety. Students take part in alternative performing techniques about posture, hand position and breathe control. This class includes learning some massage and stretching exercises based on techniques borrowed from Tai Chi, Yoga and Accu-pressure.

How Does the Guitar Fingerboard Really Work?
A workshop about the visual nature of forming triads, chords and scales on the guitar fretboard. Sources taken from the important 19th century methods and the Jazz legends of the 20th century.

The Guitar Family Tree
A lecture/demonstration about the genealogy of guitar construction and development over the last 400 years including some performed musical examples.

Performing 19th Century Guitar Music
A lecture/masterclass about the performance practice of the Classical/Romantic repertory. Pointers on interpreting notation, phrasing, timbre and articulating the music in the Italian style.

All workshops are 1-2 hours and include hand-outs and projections, etc…