“Swedish Tunes” (advanced workshop): Learn a tune, ornaments, and as much harmony and back up as time allows.

“Jam session” Improvise off a Norwegian harmonic scale tune using drones and sampling Barry’s 5 string cellos.

Yoshi “Real Groove with Pizzicato” (workshop): Learn one of Yoshi’s compositions and the techniques used to play it, section by section.

Renata Bratt “Celtic Grooves for Two Cellos” (beginning workshop): From her new book, learn Celtic tunes and grooves to go with them.

“Jazz Accompaniment”: (advanced workshop): learn the many choices we have when we offer accompaniment music in a jazz setting.

Corbin Keep “Listening for What Is” (workshop): Using our ears & cellos to become more intimate with the music that’s unique to each of us.

“Weird Noises Jam ‘06 - Puttin’ the Imp back into Improvisation!” (jam session) The Triple Bow Boogie! Play the exciting, rough and tumble, high stakes game known as Endpin Bowling! (no, not Endpin Bowing - that’s different! - but, that too!) Learn to imitate the haunting call of the mighty Cellnoceros! (note: should you happen to leave your music stand in front of you during this workshop, you’d better be prepared to play your cello with it!)

Victor Sazer “How to Make Cello Playing Easier and Play without Pain” (workshop): Basic body mechanics; How to identify sources of harmful tension; Anatomically-improved techniques that that prevent performance-related pain or injury.

Sue Schlotte “Journey to the Universe” (beginning workshop): An exciting, crazy voyage to the universe of sounds. With improvisations organized by simple rules, we find musical structures and explore the richness of the cello’s sound.

“Step across the Border” (advanced workshop): With it’s multiplicity of timbre and range of tone, the cello offers a tempting world for experimental music. This course explores ways to get to know the cello by taking unusual approaches. There are rich landscapes buried in the cello which can be excavated using a wide variety of musical and technical skills.

”Free Fall” (jam session): Free improvised music means: no notes, no pieces, no rules, no musical ideas prepared when you step on stage. It means to do just the thing that has to be done in this moment in this performance space with this audience and with these musicians on the stage. It’s a great, wonderful adventure and challenge with all its risks - but the best way to find new musical land.

Sera Smolen “Teaching Music as a Living Art Part I” Pedagogy of Improvisation for teachers.

“Teaching music as a Living Art part 2”: Dances from around the world

“Teaching Music as a Living Art part 3”: Including composition/learning to modulate while improvising

“Improvising Chamber Music” (jam session)

Chris White “Playing Over Chords In Big Band Solos” A workshop designed to help you understand how to approach creating an improvised solo in the solo sections of this year’s Cello Big Band charts.

In addition to the workshops and jam sessions, there is a Young People’s Cello-Bration (open to all string players ages 8 - 16), and exhibition of electric cellos and the Cello Big Band (below) led by Joel Cohen, which is open to all participants.