CLINICS
I. How to incorporate improvisation into your Curriculum.
This is a clinic for teachers who want to include improvisation but aren't sure how to go about it.
Open to all levels including beginning improvisers.
II. The Berklee Violin Solos.
Sponsored by a fellowship from Berklee College of Music, Mimi Rabson commissioned new works for solo violin in contemporary genres. She offers a clinic that explores the technical aspects of playing these new works that include electronics, pedals, interactive computer performance and new playing techniques as well. A clinic can be paired with a concert or a lecture/demo. (See below for description of the program.)
“Dazzling violin phenom” (Boston Globe) Mimi Rabson is currently performing newly commissioned works for solo violin by renowned Berklee College of Music composers. The new body of music showcases the violin’s 21st century voice, embodying contemporary genres, technology, and urban street cred. The composers commissioned by Rabson include jazz great Joanne Brackeen, Latin vibraphonist Victor Mendoza, interactive composer Neil Leonard, turntable guru Stephen Webber, jazz/funk bassist Winston Maccow, and guitar luminary Norm Zocher. The works draw from jazz, funk, rock, Latin, hip-hop and contemporary classical music, and utilize improvisation, effects pedals, new performance techniques, and interactive computer performance. The collaboration between this unique group of composition masters and world-class violinist Rabson produces a new musical vocabulary for the violin that bends genres and redefines the role of the contemporary violinist.
Mimi Rabson Premieres the Berklee Violin Solos
J.R. Carroll "The Arts Fuse".
" .... one of the elite players on Boston's jazz-world fusion scene." -
the Boston Phoenix.
E-mail me for details:
mrabson@berklee.edu
Teaching Credits
- Berklee College of Music
Associate Professor
- New England Conservatory
- Longy School of Music
- Wellesley College
- The Rivers School Conservatory
- The Burnside Summer School Program
- The All Newton Music School
- The Winchester Community Music School
- East Duluth High School
- Yamaha Certified String Educator