Flute

Name: Flute
Price: 35 £
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Flute Lessons are offered by The Irish Music School of Chicago

£35

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Duration

30 Minutes

Course Details

Flute Lessons are offered by The Irish Music School of Chicago.

The Irish Music School of Chicago teaches children and adults as it has been done for generations in Ireland and Irish communities around the world: as a collaboration between Irish musicians, teachers, students and the community itself.

Students learn almost entirely by ear with little to no reference to written music. The School does more than just teach students the tunes, though. In keeping with the tradition of Irish music, the School tells the stories behind the tunes, and the significance of being part of a living musical community, a community that values its senior members and is much larger than any individual.

From the first day, our students have fun with Irish music. By acquiring creative and social outlets that will last them a lifetime, they are able to make friends wherever they go. Our teaching philosophy demands that our students have access to and participate in all forms of Irish music.

As such, they learn how to perform in front of audiences, how to play for hours at sessions, how to play for dancers and how to help others learn to play. They can arrange themselves into groups, decide which tunes to play, and then figure out and memorize their own accompaniment parts and arrangements. Many of our students can do these things on multiple instruments.

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Peterson Park Branch

5978 N Lincoln Ave, Peterson Park, Chicago

Teacher's Name
Grey
Teacher's Experience
Grey Larsen, a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, is a versatile and accomplished musician and an author of books on Irish music. Though he has explored many musical paths since the 1970s, he now focuses mainly on Irish Flute and Tin Whistle along with traditional and contemporary folk music and song and mastering with a specialty in acoustic-based music. While studying early music and composition there, he came ever more deeply under the spell of traditional music, and for several years he followed these parallel streams with equal energy and dedication. He now leads a varied and rich musical life in Bloomington, Indiana (USA) as a performer, teacher, author, recording artist, record producer and mastering engineer. Since 1989 he has been the music editor of Sing Out! Magazine. Since the early 1970s he has also devoted himself to the traditional fiddle music of his native Midwest and Appalachia, in particular the music of southern Indiana fiddler Joe Dawson (1928-2012). Larsen’s books on traditional Irish music have been highly successful, selling over 15,000 copies to date.
Gender
Male
Teacher's Nationality
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