[MASTA] Reminder! Rolland Worksop this Saturday at CMU!!

[James]

Dear MASTA Members,

You are invited to the *Paul Rolland String Workshop* at Central Michigan
University SOM hosted by the ASTA Student Chapter *this Saturday*!!

*Clinician:* Abigail Albaugh (see bio below)

*When: *Saturday, November 17, 2018 (*did I mention it is this Saturday?*)

*Time: *9 AM - 5 PM

*Registration: *8:30-9:00 AM

*Where: *Central Michigan University, School of Music
1400 East Campus Drive
Mount Pleasant, MI 48859
https://goo.gl/maps/kCjnmS8Cdft

Plenty of free parking near the Music Building.

*Place: *School of Music, Room 155 (look for the signs in the building).

*Cost: *NO COST for HS & College Students/CMU Faculty and Staff
$30 for all other attendees

*Please note:* *Only cash and check accepted. Thank you!*

*Website and online registration: *
https://www.cmich.edu/colleges/cam/MUS/Events/Pages/Paul-Rolland
-Workshop.aspx

*Online registration is not required but **helpful for us to know how many
are planning to attend. *

You can also register at the door.

*Schedule *
*Feel free to bring your instruments!*
9:00 am Session I:  Alexander Technique and Rolland Pedagogy
10:00 am Session II:  Principles of Movement in String Playing
11:00 am Session III:  Sustained Strokes, Détaché, and Related Bowings

Lunch On Your Own

2:00 pm Session IV:  Shifting
3:00 pm Session V:  Vibrato
4:00 pm Session VI:  Applying Rolland Pedagogy to Classroom and Private
Teaching, Discussion/Questions

There will be a bake sale by the ASTA student chapter to help defray costs
for the workshop. Real homemade ASTA baked goods!! *I mean, does it get any
better than that???*

*Questions?* Jamie Fiste at fiste1ja at cmich.edu or (c) 989-400-1073 (text is
welcome)

Clinician Abigail Albaugh is a specialist in Paul Rolland methodology and
Alexander Technique.  She combines these two complementary approaches into
a unique pedagogy.


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*Abigail Albaugh**, M.AmSAT, originally from Annapolis, Maryland, received
degrees in violin performance from East Carolina University and **the
University** of Michigan. She is the winner of the Raleigh Symphony
Orchestra Concerto Competition. Performing in various festivals and
ensembles, Albaugh has toured England, Iceland, Scotland, Austria, the
Czech Republic, France, and Canada. Albaugh has been* *a member of the
Wilmington and Long Bay Symphonies, the Atlantean Piano Trio, and was a
founding member of the Caretta Quartet. She was an alumni guest artist at
the 2013 Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival at East Carolina University.
With the Carolina International Orchestra, a collaboration with the China
National Orchestra, she performed at various East Coast venues in the fall
of 2013. In the summer of 2015, Albaugh joined the bluegrass band Massive
Grass and has performed with them at Floyd Fest and the International
Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass in Raleigh, NC. She can be
heard on their album, “Ripe for the Pickin’”, released in **June** 2017.*

*In 2008, upon completion of a three-year training program at Alexander
Technique in Ann Arbor under director Jane Heirich, Albaugh earned Teacher
Certification through the American Society for the Alexander Technique.
Since then, she has done post-graduate training with Joan and Alex Murray
in Urbana, IL. Intensive study and mentoring with students of
Paul Rolland has led to engagements teaching Rolland Pedagogy and Alexander
Technique at Paul Rolland String Pedagogy Workshops at George Mason
University. She has presented Alexander Technique workshops to musicians at
American String Teachers Association Conferences, East Carolina University,
UNC-Wilmington, IU-Purdue-Fort Wayne, the American Guild of
Organists-Wilmington, Ashley Hall in Charleston, SC, the Wilmington
Parkinson and Lewy Body Dementia Support Group, and Miller-Motte College in
Wilmington, NC. Albaugh is currently on faculty in the Fine Arts Department
at Pine Crest School in Boca Raton, FL.*
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