MMAS Founder Gregg Mazel
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August 20 - September 20
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More information about our organization
We are in the early stages of musically transforming our communities in rural Nova Scotia. We wish everyone with talent to be able to explore their full creative potential using techniques I have learned as a long time professional jazz musician. My experience is directly through the heritage of having studied with noted jazz masters, Jackie McLean, Jaki Byard (associated with Charles Mingus and Eric Dolphy) and Joe Viola (former head of Woodwinds at Berklee College of Music).
My emphasis at the studio is on musical literacy and practical methods for learning improvisation, especially Jazz improvisation and ensemble arranging.
I am currently holding 1 on 1 virtual lessons and lessons at the studio at $45 per hour as listed on the website.
To rent the green screen room with an audio/visual engineer is currently listed at $250 per hour (minimum booking is for 4 hours, with first and last hour free, so a complete recording/broadcast session is for the low price of $500).
My emphasis at the studio is on musical literacy and practical methods for learning improvisation, especially Jazz improvisation and ensemble arranging.
I am currently holding 1 on 1 virtual lessons and lessons at the studio at $45 per hour as listed on the website.
To rent the green screen room with an audio/visual engineer is currently listed at $250 per hour (minimum booking is for 4 hours, with first and last hour free, so a complete recording/broadcast session is for the low price of $500).
We have onsite for your use:
- Drum Set
- 3 sets of Wenger choral risers
- Vibraharp
- Electric Piano
- Electric Bass
- 4 student iPads with digital audio recording software and scoring software pre-installed for use in studio
- Large shared display
- Multiple Hi Fi microphones
- Powered mixer and headsets
- Shared wifi network with multiple midi interfaces
- Broadcasting application software to YouTube, FaceBook and others
- Finale, Sibelius and Notion Scoring applications
- SmartMusic
- Max MSP
- Ableton Live (DAW)
- MOTU Digital Performer (DAW)
- Cubasis (Daw)
- Large sampling libraries with authentic sounding virtual instruments
- Other esoteric algorithmic music applications from MIT and elsewhere
Home office hours: Mazel Musical Arts will be hosting open Zoom and FaceBook Chat video call times between 9 am and 5 pm weekdays by email appointment.
Feel free to pop in and ask questions of any of our teachers who will be available per request.
Student 1 hour lessons are now $45 (some scholarships available, so please inquire).
We now provide a 3/4 green screen studio with lighting and camera, available for video broadcasting. Prices including tech engineer are currently $250 per hour (some scholarships available, so please inquire).
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Mazel Musical Arts FAQ
- ✔1. Where are you setting up the school? Canada.
- ✔2. What age levels are your target? Children to Adults. Mixed generation classes.
- ✔3. Are you setting up accredited government recognized computer/music courses? First run of my school will be unaccredited, seeking accreditation in the next 2 to 3 years. I will be operating the musical portion of my school in the tradition of my Hartt College music teachers, Jazz Masters Jaki Byard and Jackie McLean and what I learned at the Berklee College of Music. I also teach from what I have learned in the art of improvisation from the writings of Alan Arkin. Our music classes will focus on music literacy, with different techniques of music notation, composition, arrangement, film scoring and improvisation. As for the computer/technical side, I will be using my own experiences of over 30+ years of professional computer programming, augmented with online educational classes like Lynda.com through a projector and sound system using multiple laptops and iPads.
- ✔4. How long is the entire program? 2 years? 4 years? or are you looking at enrichment courses that would complement existing primary and secondary education? The programs will be project based enrichment and proficiency courses lasting about 4 to 6 weeks each for class sizes of up to 12 in 1 room. I will offer certificates of completion for each project. A sample project could be a small film scoring assignment, where, given a quicktime movie, students will learn how to add an orchestral music background and perhaps dialog sound track and re-master film to a DVD. Another sample project would be to write some Ruby or Python code to interact with a web server to read, write, delete and report on table records in an MySQL database.
- ✔5. What is your over-all vision for your students? What do you expect the person to be after he or she has undergone learning experiences in your school? I have an over-all vision to enrich lives through music, with a strong emphasis on technical proficiency in instruments and voices, advocating and teaching musical literacy through writing and reading skills and close examination of the work of musicians thoughout history. Since Jazz is an exercise in democratic ideals, it serves people well in developing their human potential. As for computer science, I want to help my students become experts in programming computers, especially in preparing for the cloud based computing experience and job opportunities that are presently arising. Students who are completing projects at my school will have more opportunities and confidence to be creative and individual thinkers who will gain the ability to work well with others to help create a more vibrant society.
- ✔6. In terms of branding, what would distinguish your school and your graduates from similar learning institutions? Technologically up to date, acoustically beautiful creative space in an architecturally historically significant setting, with caring teachers who will inspire and bring students to new and higher levels of musical and technical awareness by practical hands on advanced applications in the musical and computer arts.
Please take our survey, available in French and English
What Interests You Survey - 2016 - 2021
We are conducting a small survey to see what students are interested in both the community here in Weymouth, Nova Scotia and from other areas. We offer musical courses, music improvisational acting courses and computer programming language skills. Sometimes we combine all three streams into one project. We want all our students to become musically literate and experience the best qualities in musicianship through study and collaboration. There are 10 questions in this survey.
Your answers are anonymous unless you wish to identify yourself. The data we collect is for internal use, to help bring you better quality programs, and to help us determine where are funding goals may best be served.Thank You
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