Events: Clinics and Master Classes

Jim Peterson hosts an immersive guitar clinic dedicated to mastering rhythm, tight groove, vocal-like phrasing, triadic development, and many other concepts that will transform your playing and turn you into a groove machine. 
 

Associate Professor Tom Schmidt will be performing excerpts from musicals and sharing insights about being a successful pit musician.

Join bass innovator Les Claypool and Bass Department Chair Steve Bailey as they unpack the past, present, and future as it relates to Claypool, his music, his technique, and where it all leads.

Casey Cerveny (MM '26, vocal pedagogy) presents a voice recital.

This event is a presentation of Afro-Cuban hand percussion with faculty percussionist Mikael Ringquist. The focus of this clinic will be on stylistic differences from various areas of Cuba. Some rhythms that will be covered are bembé, palo, abakuá and Orisha/Lwa music.

Classical guitarist An Tran will perform and discuss a program of new compositions and arrangements of traditional Vietnamese music. 

Praised by the Boston Globe for his “subtle, graceful virtuosity” and by Soundboard magazine for an “exquisite sense of space, touch, and mood,” guitarist An Tran approaches performance with purpose, guided by a belief in music as a shared human experience.
 

Edmundson Visiting Artist Yvette Jackson discusses her creative process with Composition Department Chair Richard Carrick. 
 

Piano Masters Series guest artist Terrence Wilson presents a master class to Boston Conservatory students. This event is free and open to the public.

American pianist Terrence Wilson enjoys an active international concert career. A Grammy nominee and recipient of the Avery Fisher Grant, he has performed with the National Symphony as well as the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, San Francisco, and St. Louis, and the orchestras of Cleveland, Minnesota, and Philadelphia, as well as at the Verbier Festival and Lincoln Center.

The Hidden Sounds of the Americas Seminar presents the sonic geography of our continent, from Alaska to Patagonia, with replicas of pre-Columbian instruments from the Maya, Aztec, Mochica, and Inca cultures (recovered and reconstructed by the members of the orchestra).