Workshop: These exciting workshop sessions focus on various aspects of percussion, beginning with "The Body as a Drum". Students will gain the skills and knowledge to create their own rhythmic combinations, as well as learning to work both as an ensemble and as a soloist. Through the experiences they will be able to smoothly segue from body percussion rhythms onto drums, incorporating such techniques as "call and response". After a series of five or more sessions, they will present a musical sequence in a performance setting using the elements of body percussion, transitions, musical variations, tempo, sound dynamics, call and response, movement, soloing and drumming with proper stick technique. Recycled Rhythm workshops utilize traditional music concepts as well as other world music cultures to create a unique musical composition from the students themselves.

Based in both Los Angeles and San Francisco, percussionist, recording artist and educator Ami Molinelli, has traveled throughout the U.S. and abroad to bring her unique sound to music fans. Ami holds a Master of Fine Arts in World Music from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and has studied Brazilian percussion and dance at the Universidade Federal da Bahia in Salvador, Brazil. She has performed at the prestigious World Arts Ethnic Dance Festival and other venues around the United States. Ami is currently a faculty teaching-artist of percussion for the Los Angeles Philharmonic in their outreach program Music Matters and has collaborated with the Pasadena POPS Orchestra in a series of school workshops.

Price:
$100 per 60-minute workshop, plus possible planning fee. Minimum three workshops per day must be scheduled.

Age Group: K-12
Capacity: 1 Classroom (maximum of 35 students, plus regular teacher)
Availability: Year Round

To design an arts education program with this artist, please call (213) 250-ARTS or email schoolprograms@musiccenter.org.

Prices are for services between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011.