Other Workshops

Teachers are also available to continuative teaching both in UK and USA

 

 

Approach to Modern Singing

Starting from traditional patterns: a new way to teach and to set up the voice, is built a link from past to future through a direct approach to traditional ballads whose particulary features are important to understand modern singing expressions and to create correct basic skills.

Ancient singing

From the Middle Ages to Reinassence throughout Europe: different way of singing, languages, melodic and harmonic styles, ancient ballads and the use of embellishments and melisms.

Singing Solfeggio and Music Theory

To develop the important skill to sing reading sheet music is fundamental as the good knowledge of note division and rhythm.

Contacts: 

 

French and North American Fife

A worldwide simple instrument, well known for its very high and clear sound, not only for military tunes and marches, but also for all kind of traditional tunes and to play with other instruments in very different settings.

 

Italian band Fife

Derive from the military French fife, but holds a very interesting repertory of the North West of Italy, in particulary of the Ivrea's Hystorical Carnival, near Turin.

 

Hurdy-Gurdy

From the Middle Ages a fascinating instrument that accompany traditional music in all Europe, together with the bagpipe, and, more recently, the accordion.  The study developes through traditional music and melodies from the medieval and reinassence period.

Click to see the video

 

Tin Whistle

An easy to play and cheap instrument, used in celtic and traditional music, able to deep, with its sweet and penetrating sound into atmospheres of a far away time. 

Italian Zampogna

An incredible ethnic bagpipe from south Italy, able to produce both melody and accompaniment with an organ-like sound, ideal for Christmas period but also as a solist instruments in several settings.

Listen to an audio sample of the zampogna

 

Contacts: 

Pier Franco Zerbini     Stefania Bongioanni
 

contatt@iltabass.it

Via Aosta 12 - 10015 Ivrea (TO)

ITALY
 
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