Workshops and Classes
Workshops and Classes
An advanced class for violinists
To be a musician is almost like being a magician. You have to do certain things that the listener doesn't know about and that's not easy to do.
Generations of Musicians
The virtuoso Romanian-born violinist has a soulful tone that speaks of generations of music tradition in his own family – and a staggering technique refined through years of classical music. His playing is magic.
His father played the violin and was the director of a traditional Roma orchestra. His mother came from generations of musicians passed from father to son. The two families came together with the marriage of Lache’s dad who was studying with his mom’s grandfather Christian Codolban. It was a union that continued the long legacy of music in the Cercel family.
“Music is my language. It’s my way of life.”
Why LEarn with Lache?
Lache Cercel is able to bring together his first hand knowledge of Roma addition to world music with Western Music.
Before settling in Canada in 1998 was one of Romania’s most highly regarded classical musicians (trained at the Academy of Arts in Bucharest).
In the years that followed Lache has surrounded himself with high caliber professional musicians who have learned both his style in conjunction with their Western musical backgrounds.
Together they have given birth to a new style called Roma Jazz and that is the focus of his classes – to teach this unique perspective to his students.
Lache will help YOU communicate in the language he knows best – music.
What you Learn
From an oral tradition to a written tradition, from improvisation to notation, classically-trained musicians have often drawn inspiration from the ancient musical tradition of Romani music.
Lache combines his teaching technique with the tradition of the structures and forms found in the rhythms and passion of Roma music with the technical part of his strong classical training.
Lache focuses on building a strong foundation that incorporate the elements of all music.
PULSE – The structural rhythmic beat of music
SPACE – The interweaving of chords
BALANCE – All instruments together
With over 30 years of career experience, Lache has refined his teaching methods to achieve excellent results. He teaches children and adults of all ages and all reasons.
- Learning violin for pleasure
- Learning a Cruise ship Repertoire
- A Classical Cafe Concert
- Gypsy Jazz and Balkin music
You might say that lache’s class are a little torturous at times but though his dedication to students and the Roma style of playing he is able to pass on an important and new genre.
The Performance Mindset
Music notation is just a guide and the final freedom is being able to perform without the music. In that situation your own soul speaks through the instrument.
When you approach a new piece, it’s nice to look at the music to see what’s going on but the focus in the classes to to see an arrangement – by ear.
Lache uses classical shifting and fingerings and combines that with the style of Roma jazz.
He makes sure that the fingerings you use are comfortable for you. And then once the fingerings are comfortable you only play those fingerings.
And then comes the repetition.
What does this do? It means that the song stays in your head all the time so that when you let a piece go, let’s say, for a year or two and you want to come back to it, the fingerings and bowing are like a copy in your brain.
