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Bradley Sowash is a composer, creative pianist, multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, author, and educator specializing in improvisation. He has performed in every imaginable setting from living rooms, churches and jazz clubs to major concert venues both here and abroad for over thirty years. His broadcast credits include seven seasons of appearances on the PBS-TV series, The Piano Guy, and National Public Radio has aired selections from his nine CDs. He teaches master classes nationwide, serves as Pop/Jazz chairperson for the Music Teachers National Association and teaches at the 88 Creative Keys Camp with co-founder Leila Viss
Bradley Sowash is a composer, creative pianist, multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, author, and educator specializing in improvisation. He has performed in every imaginable setting from living rooms, churches and jazz clubs to major concert venues both here and abroad for over thirty years. His broadcast credits include seven seasons of appearances on the PBS-TV series, The Piano Guy, and National Public Radio has aired selections from his nine CDs. He teaches master classes nationwide, serves as Pop/Jazz chairperson for the Music Teachers National Association and teaches at the 88 Creative Keys Camp with co-founder Leila Viss. The Neil A. Kjos Music Company publishes his popular That’s Jazz piano method and Augsburg Fortress Press has published several volumes of his hymn arrangements. He also writes a column about improvisation for Clavier Companion and self- publishes works for ballet, big band, choir, film, orchestra, solo piano and string quartet.
Awards
In 1999, he was the featured artist at the Arts Midwest 15-state regional
conference in Cleveland, Ohio. He is listed in John Schaefer's book, New
Sounds: A Listener's Guide to New Music and in Katherine Teck's
Movement to Music. Sowash has received numerous grants from the Ohio
Arts Council as well as from the New York State Council on the Arts, the
Hazelbaker Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the New York
Foundation for the Arts.
He can really move an audience along with zest and wit. - Billboard
Magazine
Sowash's music powerfully conjures the moods. - Village Voice
Bradley Sowash is quite simply one of the best pianists on the contemporary
scene. - Solo Piano Publications
Primary Instrument
Piano
Location
Columbus, OH
Willing to teach
Intermediate to advanced students
Credentials/Background
1. Lessons - I teach jazz piano in live online private lessons or in person
in Columbus, OH.
http://bradleysowash.com/teaching/lessons/
2. Camp - At 88 Creative Keys, piano students and teachers learn to
balance traditional reading skills with improvisation in an upbeat and
supportive atmosphere where everyone feels comfortable exploring new
concepts. Immerse yourself in engaging presentations with advanced
teaching technology, hands-on instruction on your own keyboard, large
and small piano ensembles, “off the bench” activities, and optional
private lessons.
http://88creativekeys.com
1. Lessons - I teach jazz piano in live online private lessons or in person
in Columbus, OH.
http://bradleysowash.com/teaching/lessons/
2. Camp - At 88 Creative Keys, piano students and teachers learn to
balance traditional reading skills with improvisation in an upbeat and
supportive atmosphere where everyone feels comfortable exploring new
concepts. Immerse yourself in engaging presentations with advanced
teaching technology, hands-on instruction on your own keyboard, large
and small piano ensembles, “off the bench” activities, and optional
private lessons.
http://88creativekeys.com
Clinic/Workshop Information
1. Training for traditional (non-jazz) piano teachers
Bradley Sowash's time-tested techniques will enliven your students'
interest in music – helping your best readers get “out” of the music, and
helping those who tend to play be ear get motivated to read their music
with ease. Sowash has developed this successful approach to jazz piano
through many years of teaching his own students, and will show you how
to incorporate it alongside the method books and classical selections that
you already choose for your students.
This workshop is designed specifically for traditional studio piano
teachers who have little or no experience with jazz or blues but would like
to integrate these styles into their teaching and playing. Through lecture,
demonstration, written example, and hands-on experience, participants
will learn how to integrate a teaching approach that involves personal
expression, improvisation and the applied knowledge of music theory.
2. For first time improvisers:
Improvisation is an approach to making music that can be applied to
any instrument or style. And you don’t have to be a genius to do it! Every
musician should know how to improvise for all kinds of conditions such
as "traveling" music for ceremonies, underpinning presentations and
more. In this workshop, Sowash offers step-by-step musical tools and
practical tips to get students improvising immediately. Participants are
encouraged to bring their instruments, an open mind and a ready smile to
this hands-on workshop.
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