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Join Jack, who has 56 years of teaching experience, for private solfège and piano improvisation lessons starting on Labor Day, September 8, 2024. After extensive voice therapy, Jack can finally resume teaching his current students and adding new ones. Since scheduling international sessions can be challenging, reserve your lesson time soon.
Solfège is Jack's forte and passion. It is a Jaques-Dalcroze discipline that requires time and patience to grasp, especially from a movable-doh background. Fortunately, the Jaques-Dalcroze system is a mixture of fixed and movable doh, at which Jack is particularly skilled. He is an expert at transitioning students into the Jaques-Dalcroze Solfège system.
One might wonder about the unique benefits of Jaques-Dalcroze solfège training. M. Jaques developed a solfègio process that integrates ear, body, and mind into a unified unit. This process uses solfège knowledge and skill for experiences in piano improvisation. It all starts with eurhythmics, which prepares the students for solfège, preparing them for improvisation. This seamless transition from eurhythmics to solfège and then to improvisation nurtures a self-actualized musician who could potentially evolve into a skilled pedagogue. Fixing the pitch names trains the student to find the exact pitch needed at the piano while simultaneously recognizing function, enabling the performer to transition through melodic and harmonic sequences in various tonalities, forms, and styles.
Jack usually teaches the piano improvisation course in conjunction with the solfège course or after the candidate completes the solfège course. The Jaques-Dalcorze piano improvisation program is another unique musical expedition designed by M. Jaques. Like the solfège program, improvisation begins with the doh-to-doh scales to train tonality, tonicization, and modulation, using melody, polyphony, harmony, and form. Again, like solfège, improvisation incorporates the Seven Espèce, the seven species of seventh chords, as the foundation for a rich harmonic language.
We also incorporate eurhythmics subjects such as Time-Space-Energy, Corporal Scheme (physical technique), and Quick Reactions, plus solfège subjects such as Polyrhythmics, Polymetrics, and Syncopation at the keyboard so that candidates can teach these and other subjects with and from the keyboard.
Jack's background is nothing short of prestigious. It all began with the coveted Premiere Prix en Pedagogy from the Institute Jaques-Dalcroze, Geneva, while he pursued his Licence d'Ensenignement. During his DiplĂ´me Superieur studies, Jack was honored to conduct his principal diplĂ´me project, 'Messa Brevis,' for choir, orchestra, and seven dancers at the ceremony in the spring of 1975, honoring Frank Martin's* life and death as a composer and a disciple of Jaques-Dalcroze. The daily newspapers La Suisse, the Journal de Geneve, and the Gazette de Lausanne reported, "J. R. Stevenson demonstrates all the components (composition, choreography, and direction) in his Missa Brevis, which obtained the honor of an encore. This work, in which nothing is left to chance, bodes well for the young man's future career as the next Carl Orff."
These courses offered by Jack can start at the very beginning for the novice or dovetail with advanced concepts already acquired by the experienced. This work may count toward the Jaques-Dalcroze Professional Certificate and the License d'Enseignement at no extra charge.
Jack is available to answer any questions; email him at
info@jdalcroze.com
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