Mayu Shviro: Modal Music for bowed instruments

The Cello is an enchanting instrument, mostly known for its classical background and music composed from the classical & romantic era in Europe. But because of its fretless caracter, and because of its rich middle and low tones it’s an instrument that has been used and played extensively in musics from Turkey, Azerbaijan, Greece, India and beyond since decades. Mayu started her classical western music studies on the cello when she was 6. She discovered modal music at the age of 18. Enchanted by the power and the beauty of these musical traditions she decided to focus on this style and began her musical journey with her cello through the Arabic, Turkish and Azeri traditions. She has been participating in concerts and seminars the last years in Labyrinth extensively and is known for her extremely wonderful sound, delicate approach, as well as her energetic solos and her capacity to make the cello sound as a new instrument every time diving into different sound worlds

In this seminar Mayu will guide her class through the sound, technique and ornaments of modal music through our instruments, by studying various pieces from different music genres and working with improvisation in the context of modality. The class will also focus on group playing and work on ideas of how to accompany each other. 

The course is suitable to musicians coming from a classical western background, that primarily play cello, violin, viola etc but it is also very interesting to whichever bowed instrument  that might already play modal music (such as lyra, kemençe, kamanche, yaylı tanbur) that want to dive more deeply into makam, exploring the colors of bowed instruments from the perspective of the Cello.

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