LESSONS
Clarinet, saxophone doubling
with Victoria Samek
Beginner to advanced, amateur to professional, all can benefit from her inspirational, systematic and sensitive approach. Responding to ‘where do I start?’ and ‘why do anxieties seem to take over?’, sessions are delivered with skill and irresistible enthusiasm. Integrating relevant scientific concepts with teaching experience, the lessons and coaching will guide students in developing the tools to support purposeful learning whilst empowering confidence in performance.
LESSONS
Saxophone, improvisation, composition
with Chris Jolly
With a friendly and relaxed approach to all areas of teaching, sessions will be tailored to your personal visions and goals. Sessions will cover saxophone techniques for those starting on their musical journey, whatever their age, as well as more advanced players who want to refine their knowledge. Whether in improvisation or composition the sessions will motivate and inspire your personal creative development.
LESSONS
Clarinet and bass clarinet
with Roger Heaton
These sessions concentrate on clarinet and bass clarinet techniques particularly in more recent music since the 1960s, though also includes earlier classics such as the Stravinsky, Berg and Messiaen. This is music that uses techniques you wouldn’t normally find in the clarinet’s core repertoire.
PRACTICE & PERFORMANCE COACH
with Victoria Samek
So much of life is about performing to the best of our ability, whether it is on the concert platform, in an exam, or at an audition. In lessons new information and corrections must be processed, but it is when you are left to your own devices that the real work of consolidation begins. Practice and performance coaching guides the musician at whatever level, amateur or professional, in organising strategies and tools for practice that will ensure confidence and commitment in performance.
LECTURES
with Victoria Samek
With a lifetime of experience as performer, recording artist and teacher, Victoria is in a unique position to take the academic concept and theories drawn from her Performance Science Masters into practical music making. Fully illustrated and punctuated by live performance, Playing with Science is a series of bespoke lectures, tailored to the audience, that will inform and inspire. They are delivered with Victoria’s indomitable style and infectious enthusiasm.
PRACTICE TO PERFORMANCE COURSE
with Victoria Samek & Chris Jolly
This new and exciting venture originated as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on all musical activities. Victoria Samek and Chris Jolly have come together to deliver a course giving amateur and professional players, as well as students of all ages, a focus to practise and perform. This online course includes learning, interactive classes and a concert sharing.
ENSEMBLE COACHING
with Victoria Samek
From duos to large ensembles, mixed ensembles to working with a pianist, confidence in collaborating to constructive communication; rehearsing can be a complex business. Time pressures, mixed abilities, and personal sensitivities all need careful handling. Coaching sessions will give you the tools to support positive dialogue and to enhance effective and productive rehearsal techniques, generating fulfilment in a process which will deliver a musically committed performance.
PERFORMANCES
Read up on some of Victoria's fantastic performances, workshops, concerts and collaborations spanning throughout her illustrious and successful career as an acclaimed, world class clarinetist.
