"wonderful presentation and performance! It was so inspiring!"
-Hilary Field, Seattle Classic Guitar Society (2023)
-Hilary Field, Seattle Classic Guitar Society (2023)
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Friday, 12/13, 7:30pm, 2024 Seattle Classic Guitar Society Fundraising Concert, Faith Lutheran Church, 8208 18th Ave. NE - Looking forward to a great evening of guitar music with wonderful friends, playing with my long-time duo partner, colleague, and friend Elizabeth CD Brown, playing my arrangement of a beautiful Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue, go to the SCGS website for more info, See you there!
Sunday, November 17, 2024, 1-3:30pm, Anacortes Chamber of Commerce, Anacortes, WA
Skagit Valley College Guitar Workshop Dr. Stephen Howland - “Borrowing from Bach,” hosted by Jamie Findlay. Howland will share his love of exploring melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and textural concepts found in the music of Bach as material to play with in jazz improvisation and practice. Students will get to focus on using small musical motives (figures) built around embellished target tones, using stepwise approaches, neighboring tones, enclosures, and arpeggios. They’ll learn how to use these figures to anticipate and stress harmonic choices in common chord progressions and jazz standards, and add further interest by exploring options of melodic and harmonic development, through ideas like repetition, sequence, inversion, imitation, and rhythmic displacement.
Skagit Valley College Guitar Workshop Dr. Stephen Howland - “Borrowing from Bach,” hosted by Jamie Findlay. Howland will share his love of exploring melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and textural concepts found in the music of Bach as material to play with in jazz improvisation and practice. Students will get to focus on using small musical motives (figures) built around embellished target tones, using stepwise approaches, neighboring tones, enclosures, and arpeggios. They’ll learn how to use these figures to anticipate and stress harmonic choices in common chord progressions and jazz standards, and add further interest by exploring options of melodic and harmonic development, through ideas like repetition, sequence, inversion, imitation, and rhythmic displacement.
June - Great gig last night playing for the Seattle Luthiers Group, featuring steel and nylon acoustic guitars built by members! Much gratitude to gregory scott, jay de rocher, john parchem, tahle patton, laird o’rollins, robert hinrix,… wonderful instruments, fun evening! Sorry to not take any photos and report my video camera failed. Look forward to doing this again!
March - Wonderful 2024 PLU Guitar Festival weekend, much gratitude to Elizabeth CD Brown, our awesome guests Stella Kosim, Elliott Turner, EJ Crocker, all the great students, everyone from Chiawana High School under the fantastic direction Charith Bagley, PLU, Seattle Classic Guitar Society, Seattle Jazz Guitar Society, our Volunteers,…!
February - The 2024 PLU Guitar Festival is Saturday March 2, registration is open, for more info go to festival webpage: https://www.plu.edu/music/workshops/guitar-festival/
Happy New Year!
Dec. - Wonderful 2023 SCGS Holiday Concert, a warm thank you to everybody at SCGS, Elizabeth Brown, all the performers and volunteers, the full house, such a great community, happy holidays!!
Dec. - Looking forward to The Seattle Classic Guitar Society Holiday Concert, It's finally back to in-person, I'll be playing with E;izabeth CD Brown, come celebrate the holidays and support SCGS!! Visit SCGS online for more info: https://www.seattleguitar.org/
Elizabeth and I will be playing music by Jose Manuel Lezcano for electric jazz guitar and classical guitar, here's a peek at the music:
Oct - A warm thank you to the Seattle Classic Guitar Society, Hilary Field, Bill Clements, Elizabeth Brown, and all in attendance last night at the All Member Meeting and my presentation on integrating jazz and classical guitar studies, such a wonderful community to be part of, please check out and support the great SCGS season ahead!! https://www.seattleguitar.org/
Here's some great post event quotes, I'm so grateful!
"Dr. Stephen Howland was the featured performer at the 2023 All-Member Meeting at the Phinney Neighborhood Center for another full house of enthusiastic listeners! Dr. Howland gave a very informative and inspiring presentation about integrating jazz and classical guitar studies, exclaiming the joy of mining for the golden nuggets within all genres of music, to start as seeds for your own creativity."-Hilary Field, Seattle Classic Guitar Society
"an excellent presentation on integrating jazz and classical guitar studies"-Seattle Classic Guitar Society
"Thank you for your wonderful presentation and performance! It was so inspiring! I am ready to mine for gold nuggets."-Hilary Field, Seattle Classic Guitar Society
"Dr. Stephen Howland was the featured performer at the 2023 All-Member Meeting at the Phinney Neighborhood Center for another full house of enthusiastic listeners! Dr. Howland gave a very informative and inspiring presentation about integrating jazz and classical guitar studies, exclaiming the joy of mining for the golden nuggets within all genres of music, to start as seeds for your own creativity."-Hilary Field, Seattle Classic Guitar Society
"an excellent presentation on integrating jazz and classical guitar studies"-Seattle Classic Guitar Society
"Thank you for your wonderful presentation and performance! It was so inspiring! I am ready to mine for gold nuggets."-Hilary Field, Seattle Classic Guitar Society
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