Bray Jazz Festival 2016 – ‘Effortless Mastery’ Workshop (Kenny Werner)

As part of the great programme Bray Jazz Festival is presenting this year – Music Generation Wicklow is supporting a workshop for musicians and music tutors delivered by US musician Kenny Werner. Kenny is one of the foremost educators in contemporary improvised music. He is currently artist-in-residence at New York University.

 

Author of the critically acclaimed ‘Effortless Mastery – Liberating the Master Musician Within’ his book has become a must-read for students of music and musicians for 20 years.
Kenny covers a broad range of bases – looking broadly at what we go through as musicians to learn and play music. He explores the obstructions to creativity in music and what processes we need to consider in mastery of music which are accessible to every musician.
This workshop is FREE and takes place in the Mermaid Arts Centre on Sunday May 1st @ 5.30pm – Booking is essential through the Mermaid Arts Centre The Kenny Werner Trio will perform that evening in the Mermaid Theatre @ 8.00pm Tickets available from the Mermaid Box Office. http://www.brayjazz.com/artists/effortless-mastery