ESTA Ireland 2025 Workshop
ESTA Ireland will hold a workshop with members of Terrafolk suitable for string players and teachers on Sunday, 12 January 2025 in the Irish Chamber Orchestra Hall at the University of Limerick. Bringing fun and games to the task of developing key skills for young players!
Registration on the day will take place on 10.30am and the workshop will begin at 10.45am. There will be a lunch break at 1pm and then from 2:00pm to 3:15pm, there will be one final session and a look into www.fiddle-gateway.eu.
At 3:30pm, there will be a brief 30 minute AGM for ESTA Ireland to discuss the year ahead and to invite members to become involved.
Cost:
Costs for the full day event are €20 for ESTA Ireland members and €10 for any student members. The fee is €25 for non-ESTA attendees. You can pay via PayPal.
How to join ESTA:
To join ESTA Ireland, it is only €40 per year. Students can join ESTA Ireland for €20 a year. Members will receive the ARCO String Teachers magazine digital edition as well as access to the ESTA UK website and newsletters as well as information about and free/reduced attendance to string teacher workshops/presentations.
You can join ESTA Ireland using this form.You can contact ESTA Ireland at esta.strings.ireland@gmail.com.
ESTA (European String Teachers Association) is a non-governmental organisation founded in 1972 in order to promote the highest standards in teaching and to enable the sharing of ideas among string teachers and players of all distinctions throughout Europe. Learn more about ESTA at www.estastrings.org. ESTA Ireland serves as a network and platform for string teachers in Ireland, sharing ideas and methodologies through workshops and resources.
Further details on ESTA Ireland can be found on the ESTA Ireland Facebook page.
About Terrafolk:
Bojan Cvetrežnik and Barja Drnovšek, collectively a part of Slovenian group Terrafolk. Through their organisation Godalkanje they have created a teaching platform that provides hugely enjoyable learning for musicians of all ages and abilities. In this visit there is a proposal to look at the folk music as a teaching tool for training classical techniques. The idea behind this is to provide an alternative to some of the standard Etudes and instead make the teaching of technique into a fun activity. Additionally there is the chance to gain some insight into folk music in general and visit their new online platform which is a huge database of material.
Bojan Cvetrežnik is a performer, educator and composer. He has been a soloist in the Slovenian National Opera and in Cirque du Soleil, a teacher at the Conservatory of Music in Maribor and a mentor for jazz improvisation at the Music Academy of Ljubljana.
He’s a founding member of international established band Terrafolk, he also founded the Symbolic Orchestra that stresses the variety of expression in string instrument performance. He works with many bowed string instruments experts in certain music styles from all over the Europe. Bojan Cvetrežnik is a performer, educator and composer. He has been a soloist in the Slovenian National Opera and in Cirque du Soleil, a teacher at the Conservatory of Music in Maribor and a mentor for jazz improvisation at the Music Academy of Ljubljana. He also founded the Symbolic Orchestra that stresses the variety of expression in string instrument performance. He cooperates with many bowed string instruments experts in certain music styles from all over the Europe.
Barja Drnovšek is a Slovenian fiddle player. She graduated at the Carinthian State Conservatorium with Professor Helfried Fister and obtained her Master’s degree from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana with Professor Gorjan Košuta. While pursuing her studies, she found folk music intriguing, which led her to attend various workshops and folk camps. In addition to classical orchestras, she has been increasingly engaged in a number of ensembles that play folk music (Terrafolk, Symbolic Orchestra, Grad gori!, Kate in the Kettle).
