Gregory Ristow (USA) "Dalcroze Essentials: Solfège"
"Dalcroze Essentials: Solfège"
A three-session short course with Gregory Ristow (USA)
Dancing with Bach. In this solfège short course, we’ll use movements from Baroque dance, and music from Bach’s sublime French Suite #2, to immerse ourselves in the style of the late Baroque. We’ll start filling our own zibaldones (a composer’s notebook) with melodic and harmonic figures of speech that we can ornament, elaborate and recombine to create our own music in the style of Bach.
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Gregory Ristow is director of vocal ensembles and instructor of Eurhythmics at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. In the summers, he teaches for the Dalcroze Institute of New England and the Dalcroze School of Music and Movement’s Dalcroze Academy. He has given numerous workshops on Eurhythmics around the United States and abroad, and is featured in several of the most popular Eurhythmics videos on YouTube. He holds the Dalcroze Certificate from the Juilliard School (Robert Abramson), the Dalcroze License from the Longy School of Music (Anne Farber & Lisa Parker), and is working towards the Diplôme Supérieur at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze. Additionally, his studies with Herb Henke, Marta Sanchez, Stephen Moore, Karin Greenhead, Ruth Alperson, and Louise Mathieu have all deeply impacted his teaching.
This short course was originally given January 27-February 4, 2026.
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