Clinician Name: Constance Barrett
Clinic Title: String Cleaning: How to Build Your Students' Technique Really Fast
Clinic Synopsis: A practical approach to basic string technique, Constance Barrett uses her vast experience as a concert cellist and Suzuki teacher active in the public schools combined with her work as a Certified Body Mapping Instructor to offer strategies in how to make immediate improvements to both your playing of a stringed instrument as well as to that of your students.
What is the target audience for this clinic? Strings Teachers
What will the audience take away from this clinic? (1) how to develop a beautiful bow hand easily
(2) how to help students make good left-hand contact with the fingerboard
(3) how to help students feel physically at ease with their instruments
What is included in the handout? Complete notes and skeletal illustrations.
Is there anything else you would like attendees to know about this clinic? None
Biographical Information: Cellist Constance E. Barrett has been called a "musician of rare sensitivity" with a "hauntingly beautiful" sound by the press. Combining her love of Western Classical music with improvisation, she has performed with some of the greatest musicians in America and Europe, including members of the Cavani String Quartet, Glen Velez, Lori Cotler, and David Darling. Barrett has taught at chamber music workshops, Suzuki Institutes and teacher in-service days throughout the country, including for VH1-Save the Music. Based in New York, she holds degrees from Baldwin-Wallace College, Notre Dame, and the D.M.A. from Ohio State. Barrett is a Yamaha Certified String Educator.
Sponsor: Yamaha Corporation of America