Residency

College Artist-in-Residence

Reinventing Cello for the 21st Century:

Gideon Freudmann is an enthusiastic teacher, performer, and cello pioneer. His dynamic sense of humor, classical technique, and groundbreaking methods of cello composition inspire creativity and enthusiasm that transforms and inspires students.

Freudmann's residency will:
• motivate players to improve basic technical skill
• expand perception the cello's limitless possibilities
• present non-classical career options
• reinvigorate the drive to practice
• awaken the spirit of improvisation
• introduce string players to technology

Residency includes presentation, master class and workshops exploring, extended technique, improvisation, technology and a performance inluding group participation.

Freudmann's Syllabus

Performance
Includes selections from his 24 CDs, improvisations and works-in-progress.

Master Class
•Improvisation skills
•Tone Production and Variety
•Creating Melody, Harmony, Bass lines
•Chord Progressions, pizz and strumming techniques, voicings
•Bowing Variations

Scaling the Walls
•Creating and Reading Charts
•Blues forms and feel
•Sound creation, the unexpected
•Drones for mood, intonation, harmonizing
•Creative Scales Practice

Classic Encounters
•Phrasing, breath,
•Ostinatos and drones
•Re-interpreting Classics

Electronics for Strings
•Tech-talk
•Recording tools and techniques
•Home studio basics
•Multi-tracking and Mic'ing Techniques
•Tools/Gear for Live Performance
•Looping, Delays and more
•Amplification options, pick-ups, amps, microphones

Survival Skills
•Touring dos and don'ts
•Finding your audience
•Recording a CD

K-12 Programs

Gideon Freudmann is on the rosters of Young Audiences chapters in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Oregon/SW Washington.

He offers assembly programs: CelloBop and Sound Science, Music for Silent Film and String workshops.

CelloBop is a condensed history of the cello - past, present and future. Gideon plays excerpts from the cello repertoire along with explanations about the its construction and tone. Gideon's program includes some classical, blues, swing, jazz, rock and improvised music inspired by audience suggestions.

Sound Science explores the musical intersection of art and science. Gideon explains the math of music including beats, measures and phrases, and the acoustics of vibrations, pitch and timbre. Pkugging in to real-time digital effects, he shows how notes and sounds can be echoed, repeated, distorted and layered.

Music for Silent Film explores the many ways music can be used to enhance and help tell the stories silent films

String Workshops - explore skills and techniques for conventional and extended technique and improvisation

Contact Gideon for more information.