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Tim Connell Monthly Mandolin Workshop

Mandolin virtuoso Tim Connell teaches this hands-on, general mandolin class for all levels. After breaking down what he's learned about the instrument over the years, Tim will provide participants a hands-on experience with the mandolin, tackling right and left hand technique, basic theory and chord formation and improvisation techniques.

ABOUT TIM
A graduate of the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music and a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist with over twenty-five years professional performing experience, Tim Connell has made a unique mark in the acoustic music scene, forging a sophisticated and worldly voice for the mandolin in his work with Mike Marshall, Avi Avital and Radim Zenkl and others in the international mandolin supergroup The Ger Mandolin Orchestra; his recordings and tours with Brazilian choro group Rio Con Brio; "Mando Planet", his world music mandolin duo with Jack Dwyer; and his genre-bending, improvisatory fireworks with acoustic guitar great Eric Skye.

In the last two years, Tim's work with the mandolin has found him trading licks onstage with his heroes Mike Marshall and David Grisman, concertizing in Germany with the German-Dutch mandolin ensemble Mando Nuevo, performing pre-war Yiddish music to standing-room-only audiences in synagogues in Poland, and appearing as guest artist with the Oregon Mandolin Orchestra, the Philadelphia Mandolin Ensemble and the Classical Mandolin Society of America.

Tim is a veteran teacher and workshop presenter, having taught on faculty alongside of David Grisman, Mike Marshall and Mike Compton at the annual Mandolin Symposium in Santa Cruz, CA; with Brian Oberlin, Don Stiernberg and Radim Zenkl at the River of the West Mandolin Camp; at the annual Wintergrass Bluegrass Festival, and teaching mandolin as an Adjunct Professor of Music at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR.

WEBSITES
www.timconnellmusic.com
www.rioconbrio.net
www.stumptownswing.com

VIDEOS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JfLB7G97o8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx8jjaPe3YM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snG-F7A6AUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deNUwsKtAig