Music Improvisation Workshops

by the

Mornington Improvisers Collective

Are you a skilled and passionate muso? Open to creating your own music with others? Not sure if you can improvise - but would like to?

A series of four workshops (each of 2 hours duration)

$40 discount package for all 4 workshops (or $20 per individual workshop)

strings, wind, percussion, keyboard, voice...

You've honed your performance skills over years with one-on-one tutelage and buckets of practice...now it’s time to channel your skills to make spontaneous music!

Facilitated by Anne Norman and Poul Grage, professional performers who regularly feature improvisation in our gigs. We aim to stretch you into new territory, enabling you to take the next step to bring all your performance skills to the art of improvisation and the creation of new music.

MAXIMUM of 20 participants - from teens to adults

A wonderful opportunity! This second season of MIC impro workshops is generously subsidised by a Performing Arts Development Grant from the Mornington Peninsula Shire.

FACILITATORS:

Anne Norman - shakuhachi performer; composer; improviser. BMus (classically trained on silver flute), DipEd music, MA Ethnomusicology, post-graduate performance studies on shakuhachi at Tokyo Univ of Fine Arts & Music. Anne holds a current Working With Children check.

Poul Grage – drums/percussion; improvisor; composer and educator. BArts, BMus Perf Improv (Hons) VCA, DipEd, studied improvisation on drumkit and afro-latin percussion, exploring many other percussion traditions and techniques, all built on a beginning in classical percussion. Poul holds 2024 Victorian Institute of Teaching registration.

Ria Soemardjo - voice/percussion; is a Melbourne based musician with a passion for collaborating with artists across diverse range of genres and artforms. Her distinct, haunting vocal style reflects her Australian/Indonesian cultural heritage, and she draws on her fascination for Indonesian musical traditions in her song writing and collaborative projects. Ria’s most recent works explore powerful contemporary performance/rituals, often in response to natural or urban sites.

Mornington Improvisers Collective — Poul Grage, Anne Norman and Ria Soemardjo

MiC work on Bunurrong lands, we pay our deepest respects to Elders past and present who have sung and danced on Bunurong Country for tens of thousands of years and have never ceded sovereignty. We also pay our respects to the lands, waters, flora and fauna of this beautiful Country.