Nell'ambito dell'insegnamento "Laboratorio di Musica tradizionale irlandese" (docente: Sergio Rampino) del Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Scienze dello Spettacolo e Produzione Multimediale, martedì 21 e martedì 28 aprile dalle 16:30 alle 17:30 presso l'Aula A di Complesso Maldura, Tes Slominski in collegamento remoto da Charlottesville, Virginia (US) terrà un workshop dal titolo "Irish Fiddle Technique and Ornamentation" su tecnica e stile del violino nella musica tradizionale irlandese.
La partecipazione all'incontro concorre per DAMS e SSPM alla creditizzazione di attività formative in modalità aggregata (da verbalizzare in liste generiche quali ATTIVITA' SEMINARIALI, LABORATORIALI, o in liste generiche di disciplina quali MUSICA). In allegato il modulo per le attività formative con modalità aggregata .
Dr Tes Slominski is a fiddle player and teacher who specializes in the repertoire and style of Sliabh Luachra, a region in Ireland that includes parts of counties Cork and Kerry. Tes co-founded the still-thriving Blue Ridge Irish Music School in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1999 and has been on staff as a fiddle teacher at Sean Nós Northwest, the Catskills Irish Arts Week, and the Maoin Cheoíl an Chlár in Ennis, Co. Clare. Tes holds a PhD in music from New York University and an MA in ethnomusicology from the University of Limerick, and authored Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music (Wesleyan University Press, 2020). Along with Kimberly Francis (University of Guelph), Tes is co-editor of the gender/sexuality revision of Oxford University Press’s Grove Music Online. From 2019–2021, Tes served as Secretary of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s board of directors and has also served on the board of the Ward Irish Music Archive in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A Teaching Fellow and then Assistant Professor of Music at Beloit College in Wisconsin from 2012–2019, Tes founded and directed the North Atlantic Music Ensemble, which introduced over a hundred undergraduate students to Irish traditional music. Now back in Virginia, Tes teaches fiddle classes and individual lessons, directs the Blue Ridge Irish Music School’s youth ensemble, performs as a member of the trio Brightwood, and works as a freelance editor and writing coach.