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Proud to be part of Nova Scotia's vibrant arts community, the Fountain School prioritizes connecting its students with local and international guest artists. You'll learn from a wide variety of performing artists, technical theatre professionals, designers and cinema and media theorists.

Special thanks to Debut Atlantic, Cecilia Concerts, Neptune Theatre, Scotia Festival of Music, Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance (LAMP), the Prismatic Festival, and Symphony Nova Scotia for their ongoing partnerships.

Check back often to get inspired and see what our season of learning opportunities has to offer.

Fountain school Applied Voice, performance stream students, will participate in this vocal masterclass lead by world renown coloratura soprano Tracy Dahl and Dutch Canadian soprano Monica Huisman with Collaborative pianist Laura Loewen, from the University of Manitoba鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Music.

Architek听Percussion: making a business out of听object-based music.

You thought books were just for reading? Come see how听Architek听Percussion uses them as instruments and uses object-based music as a tool for creative identity and career longevity in contemporary music.

The first part of this masterclass uses various pieces from听Architek鈥檚听repertoire to explore the challenges and rewards in commissioning and premiering works that use everyday objects as sound producing devices.听Composition students can investigate notation strategies, while all听attendees learn about听exploring the musical in everyday objects. Brave participants can attempt to sight read several passages of object-based music originally composed for听Architek.

The second section centers around professional development for enterprising young performers. Topics include the artistic grants landscape, project development, and developing a unique artistic identity.

The Montreal-based quartet Architek Percussion creates musical experiences that entertain, captivate, and challenge audiences, often simultaneously. Founded in 2012 by graduates of McGill University,听Architek听quickly established itself as equally comfortable in performing classic repertoire and exploring new terrain through commissions and premieres.听Performing regularly听in听their home base of Montreal, across Canada, and internationally,听Architek听has commissioned and/or premiered over 60听new works, undertaken 10 tours, and appeared on 8 commercially released albums. Their听diverse repertoire is presented in a manner inspired by the quartet鈥檚 belief that given proper context, every audience member should feel welcomed and included through the performance of contemporary art music.听Architek听Percussion uses Vic Firth sticks and mallets on Sabian cymbals and Yamaha instruments.

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Weaving New Legacies of Knowing, with Diane Roberts

A lecture presented by the Fountain School Acting program,
in partnership with the Prismatic Arts Festival and the Arrivals Legacy Project.

What are the legacies that call us and what must we leave behind?

Join Arrivals Legacy Project鈥檚 founding Artistic Director Diane Roberts for a public lecture about her research related to guiding artists to discover听their culturally storied bodies through dynamic embodied explorations between self and the larger world. This is an opportunity for performers, writers, singers, educators, change leaders, and creatives of all disciplines to learn how collaborative space can allow for cross-cultural exchange and performative story-making that explores where ancestral histories meet.听

An accomplished director, dramaturg, writer, and cultural animator, Diane Roberts has collaborated with innovative theatre visionaries and interdisciplinary artists for over 30 years. Her directorial and dramaturgical work has been seen on stages across Canada and her reputation as a mentor, teacher, and community collaborator is nationally and internationally recognised. The roots of storytelling and multidisciplinary art forms (mixing of ritual song, dance, storytelling, live art, and theatre) drive her arts practice as a director, dramaturg, and cultural animator. Her intuitive style of facilitation draws on specifically crafted creative engagement tools that inspire artists of all disciplines and cultural backgrounds to unearth their authentic creative impulses.

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Solo Jazz Guitar and Improv Masterclass with Greg Amirault.

Come learn how to apply basic harmony and counterpoint to jazz standard song melodies to improve your solo guitar playing.

In this masterclass, Greg Amirault will perform and analyse his solo guitar arrangement of In a Sentimental Mood. The material will be presented in and informal setting where students will have the opportunity to apply some of the material immediately and ask questions.听

Learn basic improvisation techniques to immediately start improvising on a familiar jazz standard.

Greg Amirault is originally from Nova Scotia has been living in Montreal since 1987, where he is an active member of the local jazz scene. He has a Diploma in Jazz Studies from St. Francis Xavier University, as well as a Bachelor鈥檚 and Master鈥檚 degree in Jazz from McGill University. He has been teaching jazz guitar at Concordia and McGill universities for over twenty-five years.

His album East of the Sun was nominated for an EMCA Award for Jazz Album of the Year in 2015. He has recorded four albums as a leader, Acadian Folk Song, East of the Sun, News Blues and A Change of Pace.

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