Truly Memorable Music Masterclass Sessions
The First Online Music Masterclasses in Uganda | Organ Masterclasses for All
Members of The Organ Academy in Uganda, the Kampala Cathedrals and the wider community participated in the first ever online music masterclasses in Uganda. These truly unforgettable masterclasses were tailored specifically to The Organ Academy students needs! The Maestro Online Masterclasses & Courses are tailored to meet the musical learning needs of all in a variety of areas.
The first masterclass was aimed at the Organ Academy and Organ Improvisation. The range of abilities in the music masterclass varied from recent beginners to advanced musicians beyond Grade 8 and certainly at diploma level.
(1) We begin with introductions. Meeting individual musicians and getting to know each person is so important.
(2) We start by improvising on just one note. We use sentences to help develop rhythms. This was how Petr Eben, a famous organ composer, started his first lesson with me on improvisation.
(3) Expand to using 2 notes. Don’t start with notes that make Major scales or similar, because you want to stimulate imagination rather than begin improvising with patterns that you will instantly default to.
(4) Move on to one chord organ improvisations.
(5) Expand to two chords. Here we use D minor and E minor. To create different textures we consider arpeggio type melodies and stepwsise. This is a brilliant way to learn and practice your arpeggios instead of just repeating them over and over again.
(6) Take the “We Will Rock You” lick. Play it twice, once starting on B and once on E. Join them together and you have a Major scale. Now improvise on these two parts of the scale, known as “tetra chords”.
(7) For more advanced learners who are seeking to learn their scales, use repeated descending Major scales to form bell patterns.
Here’s a review from one of the Ugandan organ masterclass participants:
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The Maestro Online Music Masterclass Philosophy
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Choral Conducting with Love and Joy
Do you direct and conduct a choir and want a number of significant strategies? Do your choir watch you but not really respond to what you want? Do you wonder how to make your gestures clearer? Ralph is a genius at this!
What's in the Choral Conducting Masterclass, "Conducting with Love and Joy"?
This course will cover the following areas
This course is an 8 week self-study pre-recorded programme with learning objectives and tasks for you to use with your choirs. It will create a deep-dive into choral conducting. It will not only improve the music that you and your choir create, but it will also enhance your relationship and bond. It will also enhance the relationship between your choir and their listeners.
This conducting masterclass course will cover the following areas:
- Laying the Foundations, Join In
- The Figure of 8
- The Breath
- Text and Communication
- 3 and 4 Beats Per Bar
- Expression & Subtle Gestures
- Reading Ahead
- Final Consonants
- Conducting without Conducting, A Lesson for Leadership
Who is the World Renowned Choral Conductor, Ralph Allwood MBE?
Ralph Allwood MBE DMus was for 26 years Director of Music at Eton College and is now a freelance choral director, teacher and conductor. He is the Director of the Rodolfus (ex-Eton) Choral Courses, which he founded in 1980. He co-founded the Junior Choral Courses in 2012. Ten thousand 8 to 20 year-olds have since been students on courses. In recent years he has launched courses in Texas, Shanghai and Shenzhen. The Rodolfus choir has produced over 20 CDs since he founded it in 1982.
Ralph is co-founder and conductor of Inner Voices, made up of singers from state schools in London. He is also a Supervisor for harmony at Jesus College, Cambridge, Director of the only conservatoire chapel choir in the world, the Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir and an Honorary Fellow of University College, Durham.
Ralph has conducted choirs for over 40 broadcasts for BBC Radio 3. He has composed much music for Extreme Music Ltd, heard worldwide on radio, films and television. He teaches at his old grammar school, Tiffin and is a co-founder of the National Youth Music Theatre.
In 2015 he co-founded the Pimlico Musical Foundation to enable children from Pimlico Primary Schools to sing in choirs, particularly at St Gabriel’s Church.
In 2017, the Archbishop of Canterbury presented him with the Thomas Cranmer Award for Music and Worship and. He is Chair of the Choral Evensong Trust.
He has also co-authored The Novello Guide to Sight-Singing, a method to enhance your sight-singing that thoroughly integrates musical theory and musicianship.
Ralph was kind enough to welcome The Maestro Online into his home to discuss all of his wonderful secret techniques and tricks!
What are Our Music Masterclasses Like?
Our music masterclass courses are self-study digital courses embedded with information, interactive music software (scores), exercises, objectives, tasks, teaching pedagogy and videos of celebrities and international level musicians explaining and demonstrating key skills. Certificates are awarded at the end of each course. We also have a chat feature so that you can reach out to us for support and make new musical friends from around the world.
A Quick Look at a Typical Masterclass Course
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