Most musicians focus on learning technique (learning how to play an instrument), rather than on developing an individual, unique voice. Creative Music Making focuses on the creative development of musicians from all levels of experience and in all styles of music. Based on the author's experience leading workshops for performers around the world, the easy-to-follow exercises in this text will enable any musician--from beginner to professional--to improve creativity and self-expression. Creative Music Making will open the ears of all musicians, vocalists or instrumentalists, in classical, popular, or jazz styles, to a world of new possibilities.
William L. Cahn
Bill Cahn's compositions are published and distributed worldwide by HoneyRock Publishing, Marimba Productions, Meredith Music, Warner Brothers Music and Wimbledon Music. His works for percussion with symphony orchestra have been performed by the orchestras of Atlanta, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Dallas, Indianapolis, Rochester (NY), St. Paul, Toronto, Taipei, Tampere (Finland), and more.
Bill has been a member of the NEXUS percussion group since 1971 and he was the principal percussionist in the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 1968 to 1995. Born in Philadelphia in 1946, Bill has performed with conductors, composers, ensembles, and artists representing widely diverse musical styles - Chet Atkins, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Aaron Copland, Chuck Mangione, Mitch Miller, Seiji Ozawa, Steve Reich, Doc Severensen, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, Edgar Varèse and Paul Winter.
Bill has produced eight CDs, written several books and numerous articles about music and percussion. His most recent book, "Creative Music Making," on freeform improvisation was published by Routledge Books in 2005. His workshops and residencies include the subjects of improvisation, percussion performance, careers in music, and the business of music. He has served as a panelist for the American Orchestra League and as an artist faculty member at A.S.O.L. National Youth Orchestra Festivals.
Since 2006 Bill has been an Associate Professor of Percussion at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. He is also a faculty artist in residence at the Showa Academy of the Arts in Japan and has served as a guest faculty artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada.
Bill has received the Rochester Philharmonic League's FANFARE AWARD (1988) for a "significant contribution to music education in Rochester," Mu Phi Epsilon's MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR AWARD (1993), and with NEXUS, the TORONTO ARTS AWARD in music (1989), the BANFF CENTRE FOR THE ARTS NATIONAL AWARD (1997), and induction into the Percussive Arts Society's HALL OF FAME (1999). In 2006 Bill received a GRAMMY Award as part of the Paul Winter Consort on the DVD titled, "2004 Solstice Concert."
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