Beginning Jazz Piano Workshop with Tim Richards

JG Windows Ltd

Come and join us FREE for this  jazz piano workshop with best-selling author, composer, educator, performer and arranger, Tim Richards.

JG Windows

Best-selling author, pianist, educator, composer and bandleader Tim Richards will be presenting this jazz piano workshop, outlining strategies for developing improvisation and accompaniment skills with reference to his publication Beginning Jazz Piano.<ul><li>W﻿HERE: JG Windows in Newcastle City Centre</li><li>W﻿HO: Suitable for both teachers and students of approx. grade 3+ standard</li><li>W﻿HEN: Sun 11th June @ 1-3pm</li><li>F﻿ree refreshments provided</li></ul>Contact us on 0191 232 1356 or at sheetmusic@jgwindows.com for more information.A﻿bout Tim:Having started with classical piano lessons, Tim Richards began to teach himself jazz and blues from the age of 14, after seeing Thelonious Monk and Otis Spann on TV. He is perhaps best known as the founder and leader of the modern jazz group Spirit Level, who released seven albums, appeared at clubs and festivals About Tim Richards all over Europe between 1979 and 1999, and were nominated Best Small Group in the 1995 British Jazz Awards. Tim is very active in education, teaching jazz piano, blues piano and improvisation at London's Morley and Goldsmiths Colleges since 1991. He is a contributing tutor on the European Piano Teachers Association's Piano Pedagogy course, and course director of the annual Jazz Piano Week held at Premises Studios in Hackney. As well as being a jazz examiner for the Associated Board, he has had pieces published in their Jazz Piano syllabus (grades 2-3) and in the Rockschool Popular Piano syllabus (grades 1-6).We are proud to be hosting this workshop along with Schott Music Publishers.

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