Games and Exercises
Isobel and Luke demonstrate multitasking tricks, and preliminary games and exercises from "Michaeala's Music House". View the videos here.
New Year in Mexico and Other Adventures, 2012
The turn of the year will find Gwendolyn Masin in Mexico City and Cuernavaca at the Eternal Spring Chamber Music Festival. Performances and teaching will take place between 28th December 2011 and 10th January 2012. Returning to Europe, she will continue the season with masterclasses at the University of Music, Saar between the 24th and 26th January 2012.
Winter also sees a one-week return to the String Academy in Davos in late January. Come spring, Gwendolyn Masin will be in Lisbon where she has been invited to lecture and teach at the State Conservatory. During seminars, she will also be introducing ideas from "Michaela's Music House" to help guide young teachers through the wonders of early learning. These lectures, masterclasses and seminars are open to the public.
Dates for Your Diary:
December 28th — 10th January 2012
Concerts and Masterclasses in Cuernavaca, Morelos, and Mexico City, Mexico.
January 24th — 26th 2012
Masterclasses in Saarbrücken, Germany.
January 29th — 5th February 2012
Masterclasses in Davos, Switzerland.
April 12th — 14th 2012
Masterclasses, Lectures and Seminars in Lisbon, Portugal.
Masterclasses in Davos, Esslingen and Utrecht, 2011
Gwendolyn Masin gave Masterclasses in Davos twice in 2011, both at the Winter and Autumn String Academies. She also fulfilled her role as guest artist at the Podium Festival in Esslingen during a series of masterclasses and seminars for students and teachers, as well as appearances as soloist with the Podium Festival Strings Chamber Orchestra and at chamber music performances. She enjoyed Masterclasses with the third-level students of Het Utrechts Conservatorium in March. As part of her GAIA Chamber Music Festival, Gwendolyn once again called GAIA Masters into being. Here, she performed with and taught Masterclasses alongside violinists Shmuel Ashkenasi and Philippe Graffin, the violist Gérard Caussé, and cellists Gavriel Lipkind and Philippe Muller.
The dates were:
January 30th — 6th February 2011
Masterclasses in Davos, Switzerland.
March 27th and 29th 2011
Masterclasses in Utrecht Conservatory, the Netherlands.
April 27th — 2nd May 2011
Residency at the Podium Festival in Esslingen, Germany.
May 5th — 8th 2011
Masterclasses at GAIA in Thun, Switzerland.
September 4th — 11th 2011
Masterclasses in Davos, Switzerland.
Residencies in Izmir and Lisbon, 2010
Gwendolyn Masin was a guest artist in Izmir and Lisbon during the spring months of 2010. At masterclasses, seminars and lectures, she explained and demonstrated her approach and methodology, working with both teachers and pupils towards uncovering the secrets of exciting teaching and learning. The dates were:
March 4th — 8th 2010
Residency at Izmir Dokuz Eylúl University State Conservatory in Turkey.
May 22nd — 25th 2010
Residency at the Metropolitano de Musica de Lisboa in Portugal.
Michaela, Daimee, Quartetto Gli Uccellini, Luke and David on RTÉ 2, January 19th 2010
On News2Day, Raidió Teilifís Éireann's news programme designed specifically for a young audience, Michaela's Music House, its author and some of the students that appear in the book were filmed at work and play.
Gwendolyn Masin on BBC Radio Ulster, January 9th 2010
In an interview given to John Toal on BBC Radio Ulster's "The Saturday Magazine", Gwendolyn discussed the benefit of story-telling in teaching, described the moment when a student takes ownership of that which they have learned, and explained the advantages of being able to call on the Patience Fairy for assistance...
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Gwendolyn Masin on Newstalk, January 7th 2010
In this excerpt from Newstalk's "Culture Shock", Gwendolyn was interviewed by Fionn Davenport about the relevance of a modern, fresh approach to learning music such as the one described in "Michaela's Music House", the recognition of musical potential in young students, the art of practising, and how eating ice-cream can possibly become a chore...
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