NDCF 2007 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday June 8

WORKSHOPS I

11:30 - 12:30 Registration
1:00 - 2:00 Sera Smolen - Improvising Chamber Music
2:10 - 3:10 Water Bear – “Cameron” – jam session
3:20 - 4:20 Break of Reality – Rock 101
4:30 - 5:45 Cello Big Band

WORKSHOPS II

1:00 - 2:00 Corbin Keep – Speed Date Your Cello
2:10 - 3:10 Dana Leong – Jam session
3:20 - 4:20 Gideon Freudmann – strumming’ bowin’ pickin’ & grinnin’ - jam
4:30 - 5:45 Cello Big Band

FRIDAY EVENING CONCERT

7:30 Nancy Kulkarni & Daniel Kennedy
8:30 Dana Leong with Scott Amendola & Jason Lindner
9:30 Water Bear
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Saturday June 9

WORKSHOPS I

9:00 - 10:00 Nancy Kulkarni - Music of India: Alap Improvisation
10:10 - 11:10 Gideon Freudmann - Blues
11:20 - 12:20 Break of Reality – jam session
12:30 - 1:00 lunch / exhibition
1:00 - 2:00 Blaise Kieler – How to be heard in an amplified setting
in the exhibition room
2:00 - 3:00 Zoe Keating – Rock out on the Cello
3:10 - 4:10 Corbin Keep – Applying the Icing

WORKSHOPS II

9:00 - 10:00 Water Bear – name music – a new way to compose and play
10:10 - 11:10 Chris White – Improvising on the Cello Big Band changes
11:20 - 12:20 Gideon Freudmann – Strumming the Night Away
12:30 - 1:00 lunch / exhibition
1:00 - 2:00 Blaise Kieler – How to be heard in an amplified setting
in the exhibition room
2:00 - 3:00 Chris White – Latin Jam Session – Bossa and beyond
3:10 - 4:10 Sera Smolen – Open Discussion – Including improvisation in the classroom and in the private studio
4:20 - 5:45 Cello Big Band

SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT

7:30 Gideon Freudmann
8:30 Zoe Keating
9:30 Break of Reality

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Sunday June 10

WORKSHOPS I

10:00 - 11:15 Panel Discussion with Break of Reality, Zoe Keating & Jeffrey McFarland Johnson – Being a professional alternative cellist – Marketing, promotion and other tips.
11:30 - 12:30 Nancy Kulkarni - Music of India: Composition and Tala
11:30 - 12:30 Chris White - Playing chords on the cello

12:30 - 1:30 lunch and final chance in exhibition and store

1:30 - 3:00 Farewell Concert

1:30 Jeffrey McFarland-Johnson
2:00 Cello Big Band