Born: March 2, 1951 Primary Instrument: Viola
Last Updated: March 10, 2009Deviant Shakti
Transmuseq
2009
Tracks: 1. Shamanic Guidance; 2. Inconspicuous Immersion; 3. Weeping Aerodyne Refractals; 4. Globular Guerilla Peace Tactics; 5. Transterrestrial Underground; 6. Nomadic Filtration; 7. Ornithic-Reptilian Runway; 8. Tenacious Rebel Autarchy; 9. Bonaparte's Retreat; 10. Kali; 11. Atomized Ascension; Track.
Personnel: Michael Evans: drums, theremin, percussion.
LaDonna Smith
Floating Bridges
Transmuseq Records
2007
Tracks:1. Krakow Concerto; 2. Tribal Reverberation; 3. Klebnikov; 4. Die to Live; 5. Crossed Currents; 6. Something Reduced.
Personnel: Misha Feigin: guitar & balalaika.
LaDonna Smith
Yokel Yen
Tranmsmuseq
2006
Tracks: 1.Terrestrial Passage; 2. Chasing a Hummingbird; 3. Harmonic Harmonica; 4. Enorous Morning; 5. Breakfast Scherzo; 6. Robert; 7. Already Afternoon; 8. Air Castle Twirls; 9. Return to the Isthmus; 10. Fanatic Folk; 11. Mosquinata; 12. Khlebnikov; 13. One More Round; 14. Celestial Rumination; 15. Bagging the Truth.
Personnel: Misha Feigin: guitar & balalaika.
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Primary Instrument:
Viola
Location:
Birmingham, AL
Willing to teach:
Beginners
Credentials/Background:
As a teacher, not only has she given many workshops on free improvisation throughout the U.S. and Canada to schoolchildren and college students, but for 30 years, she has taught violin to hundreds of children in Birmingham, Alabama, and is the Director of the Birmingham Suzuki Violin Association. In 1998, she took 24 students and 14 adults to Japan to participate in the 42nd National Suzuki Concert in Tokyo. The Suzuki Violinists also performed their own concerts in Nagano, and a Sister City International Friendship Concert in Hitachi. In 2000, she went to China to study string pedagogy there with People to People, and gave a workshop to string students at the International School in Souzjou. Since 1995, she has been
core violin faculty of the Central Pennsylvania Suzuki Institute, specializing in violin master classes, groups, jazz and free improvisation.
Clinic/Workshop Information:
LaDonna has given Improvisation clinics in connection with her performances on numerous occasions, for example at "Ear it Live", Toronto Canada Festival, The Composers Forum at Michigan State University in 2000, at the American String Teacher's Association (ASTA) national conferences in Reno Nevada,2006 and in St. Louis, 2007, and at the International Society of Improvised Music (ISIM) in 2008 & 2009. It's informal, sitting in a circle is best, giving live aural examples of extended techniques, along with discussions of the building blocks of good composition/improvisation techniques. Good with children or adults.
