Ensemble Connect

Musicians, Madlibs, & Metaphors

Last month I had a blast working with 15 musicians in the four ensembles that participated in Carnegie Hall's first ever Audience Engagement Institute, designed by the fab Deanna Kennett, Education Manager of the Ensemble Connect program. In the workshop session I had...

Solving the problem of what to say

Welcome to teaching artist skills part 3—tools for solving the problem of what to say when speaking with audiences. (If you missed them, here are parts 1 and 2.) This past week I heard two terrific performances in Cambridge: the Escher String Quartet played at the...