Location: Online presentation (Zoom)

Presenter: Greg Presley

“Collaboration - Tips, Tricks, and Traps”

 An experienced collaborative musician gives an overview of the field of professional accompaniment. What to bring out, what to leave out, how to set the tempo, how to discuss artistic goals diplomatically, how to set fees, how much to practice. The importance of sight reading skills. Developing the art of deep listening, and instant responsiveness. Learning to read body language. Sensitizing oneself to breathing and bowing. This is a field where people learn by doing, but everyone has to begin somewhere. Suggestions about a normal progression in collaboration, from duet work, to choir accompaniment, to instrumental and vocal accompaniment and collaboration.