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The Lexington Music School
Jazz cello choir/ big band
(Jazz, world music and a mix of both classical and non-classical music) Directed by cellist Cameron Sawzin We will rehearse at Lexington music school Mondays. We are looking at an early evening time slot, 5:15-6:15 or 6:15-7:15. The start time will be finalized after reviewing feedback from participants. The tuition will be $20/session, payable at the beginning of each month. The Andover cello band was a huge success this past summer with a well- attended performance at the Marland Atria. The “band members” got to help design arrangements of “Caroline” by Mer Boel, as well as Cameron’s “Oily Weasel Blues”. The big band also performed a fabulous European arrangement of Duke Ellington’s “Pigeons and Peppers and the cellists played some red-hot improv. solos as well. Cameron Sawzin earned bachelors and master’s degrees from Oberlin College and the New England Conservatory, studying with Richard Kapuscinsky and Lawrence Lesser. Ms Sawzin ‘s Boston engagements range from the season finale Boston Lyric Opera production of “”Marriage of Figaro” and Masterworks Chorale to Broadway shows “The Producers and Sweet Charity” She was a soloist in the New Directions Cello Festival at the University of Conn., and is now a member of their steering committee, along with Artistic Advisors, YoYo Ma, Ron Carter, Julian Lloyd Weber and David Darling. She has been teaching at the Collins Center for the Performing Arts for 20 years in Andover and many of her students have attended the Phillips Academy. Cameron recently spent a semester as guest lecturer at the University of New Hampshire, and also teaches at High Mowing, arts oriented Waldorf school in New Hampshire. She has done extensive study of Pilates, Feldenkrais and Alexander modalities and uses them with consistent success to help her students create a natural, relaxed, fluid cello technique. Cameron is a member of the Boston Virtuosi, and is co-designing their new multimedia concert series at Fort Point Channel in Boston, Her solo cello work has been often heard on the PBS show “Nova, among others. She recently played solo cello in the successful Boston run of the hit Broadway show, “Spelling Bee”. For more information, contact Cameron Sawzin. |
