Musikiwest ChamberFest Workshop: The Art of Successful Teamwork
Event Information
Description
Former cellist and psychotherapist Dana Fonteneau of the WholeHearted Musician will teach attendees the interpersonal skills for team work that are necessary for successful performance.
The inaugural Musikiwest ChamberFest will be launched in Pebble Beach, CA July 7-12, 2019 on the inspirational campus of the Stevenson School.
Musikiwest uses the collaborative nature of chamber music to build empathic awareness, an essential ingredient in being a great chamber musician. In our workshop, young aspiring chamber musicians will work alongside some of the most exciting musicians on today’s scene. Our musicians will share their tremendous talent and creativity as we explore masterworks of the repertoire. Equally as important, we will open the discussion on the tools available to collaborate with grace, flexibility and sensitivity. We will explore the means by which to identify an unhealthy collaborative experience and the skills available to address conflict resolution.
Organizer Musikiwest
Organizer of Musikiwest ChamberFest Workshop: The Art of Successful Teamwork
Musikiwest harnesses the collaborative power of chamber music to engender empathic awareness, promote conflict resolution and build peaceable communities.
Our programs feature an ensemble of internationally renowned professional musicians rehearsing a piece of chamber music in a scripted format. As they play passages and intermittently stop to talk, a health professional plays the role of ‘moderator’, highlighting to the audience in real time each player’s comments, gestures, expressions and body language, and the reactions these may elicit in the other players.
Scripted dialogue will illustrate different aspects of interpersonal interaction and group dynamics, such as intimidation, shaming, resentment, divisiveness and other ingredients of discord which ultimately undermine their relations and their music. The moderator will maintain an interactive dialogue with the audience, and together with the audience, suggest alternative scenarios of speech and behavior that restore harmony among the ensemble.
We present our programs in a small classroom setting at select middle schools and high schools.
Students will be seated around the musicians, close enough to discern their facial expressions and subtle gestures. The week of school presentations will culminate in a full-length professional concert performance open to the community.
We hope that participation in our program will empower these young audience members to build their awareness, empathy and skills for conflict resolution, to expose them to a performance of classical chamber music by world-class musicians, and to encourage them to invite their family and friends to join them in enjoying this rare community concert.
