Make your Bach Dance, Swing and Sing with Max Baillie

Want to know how to make your Bach playing come to life? Of course the notes themselves are already beautiful, but how can we captivate the listener from the very first gesture? Violinist Max Ballie will do just that and go over creativity in practice, how genre hopping is key, questions of harmonic rhythm, how to take time, how to hear polyphony, and how to find GROOVE.

A graduate of the Yehudi Menuhin School, Cambridge University, and Berlin’s UdK, British-German violinist and violist Max Baillie is sought after as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral leader in the UK and abroad.Max’s musical life reflects his interest in the cross-pollination of musical styles. Artists has worked with include Steve Reich, Mischa Maisky, Bjork, John Williams, Thomas Adès, Bobby McFerrin, Zakir Hussain, James Thierrée, and many more. From folk tunes in the Welsh hills to major festivals across the world, Max leads a dynamic life which embraces classical, improvisation, contemporary, and experimental music. Max’s teachers include Natasha Boyarsky, Itzhak Rashkovsky, and Ivry Gitlis.

He may be a violinist, but this stream is for all instruments-- piano too!