Christos Barbas Improvisation in Music – seminar

This workshop will focus on the practice of improvisation, based on notions and technics coming from the world of classical and traditional, as well as contemporary modal music.

Inspired by the music of countries from the Eastern Mediterranean we will work with topics such as modality, micro-intervals, memory, imitation, variation, time, tempo, dynamics, sensibility, acoustic, phrasing and silence..

The workshop is open to all instrumentalists and singers experienced with modal music, but also musicians who come from other backgrounds and are interested in using improvisation as a creative practice.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Christos Barbas is a multi-instrumentalist and composer and one of the most multifaceted and creative musicians coming from Greece. From an early age, he studied the recorder, baroque music, harmony, counterpoint and later completed his studies of Western music in 2002. Since 2003, he has focused on the study of the ney, Sufi, classical Ottoman music and plays several instruments from different cultures, such as kaval, piano, bansuri and irish whistles etc. He composes in a variety of styles, including music for contemporary dance, theatre, cinema and modal music. He has taught at the University of Popular Music and Traditional Arts (Greece) and in Macedonia (Thessaloniki). He teaches at Labyrinth in Crete and in other cultural centers and is the Artistic Director of Labyrinth Catalunya.