Upcoming Body Mapping Workshop: What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body

In a fundraising event for music fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota, the University of Redlands is hosting a workshop aimed at teaching musicians what they need to know about the body. The body mapping workshop will take place over two days at the Frederick Loewe Performance Hall in Watchorn Hall at the University of Redlands, 1200 E. Colton Ave., on Monday, March 2, and Wednesday, March 4. Both workshops will run from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Designed to bring awareness to tension habits, the workshop will teach body mapping for musicians through lecture, discussion, group activities, and playing or singing. Body mapping is one discipline that can address musculoskeletal health and injury prevention with regards to music study, training its practitioners to replace "faulty" body maps with "correct" maps and relying on skeletal structure to support weight and better allow for effortless movement. This ease of movement, especially, can offer musicians a wider diversity of tone color, a better control of dynamic range, arm freedom and therefore freer technique, stronger endurance and better clarity and speed of musical articulation, a release from the University of Redlands School of Music states. Implicitly and explicitly covered in the workshop will be whole body awareness, increasing understanding of performance health through injury prevention and aiding in reducing performance anxiety. Workshop participants will explore how, when moving in accordance with their anatomy, performances gain a depth of expression that is communicated directly to audiences. The workshops will be led by Dr. Andrée Martin, who has performed at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Pierre Boulez, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, the Warsaw Autumn Festival and the Prague Spring Festival. She has performed and presented at the Seattle Flute Fair, the Florida State University Flute Day, and the National Flute Association, International Clarinet Association, North American Saxophone Alliance and American Musicological Society Conventions. She includes playing Elliot Carter’s Enchanted Preludes for the composer on a concert celebrating his 90th birthday and playing Le Marteau Sans Maître with Pierre Boulez, conducting among her most thrilling performing experiences. Martin has performed throughout the U.S., Japan, Canada, Mexico and Europe and was in residence at the Aspen Music Festival and the Banff Center. She has been published by Mountain Peak Press, Flute Talk and The Flutist Quarterly and has premiered works by Earle Brown, Alvin Lucier, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Ralph Shapey, J.M. David, Brian Cherney, David Lang, Perry Goldstein, Daniel Weymouth, Roscoe Mitchell, Petr Kotik and Jackson Mac Low. As a founding member of the Furious Band, she has performed throughout Canada, the United States, and at the Musica y Escena Festival at the Bellas Artes Theatre in Mexico City. They can be heard on CRI. A native of Newfoundland, Martin was the first recipient of the Samuel Baron Memorial Prize, a winner of the Stony Brook Concerto Competition, and the only music finalist for the Thayer Fellowship. Funding for her studies with Samuel Baron, Carol Wincenc, Tara O'Connor and Robert Cram came in part from a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. Martin is the professor of flute at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University in Georgia. Her students have won the Texas Flute Society Masterclass and Orchestral Excerpt Competitions, the MTNA Senior and Young Artist Competition (state divisions), the Atlanta Flute Club Competition, Alexander and Buono International Flute Competition (2nd place), the Mid South College Masterclass and High School Competitions, the Florida Flute Fair Masterclass Competition, and the Artist International Competition. An advocate of international education, she has taught in Paris, Oxford, and Florence. Martin says she shares her passion for studying body awareness and movement via her body mapping course at the Schwob School of Music, which is also the home of Summerflute, a five-day course focusing on self-awareness (through Feldenkrais), practical anatomy (through body mapping), and the Alexander Technique. She is a certified body mapping clinician. Tickets to attend both nights of the workshop are $50 general admission, $20 with student ID and $10 for University of Redlands students. Group rates for 10 or more start at $10 each ticket. To register and reserve your space for this event, contact the School of Music at909-748-8700 or musicoffice@redlands.edu.