Latin American Songbook

“THE LATIN AMERICAN SONGBOOK”

Latin American Songbook
Mondays 6:30-8:30pm | $350 for 12 week session
Instructor: Maria Marquez| Location: Theater Space

Welcome! To the world of Latin American music and culture.

This is a unique class in the Bay Area taught by Latin Jazz singer, composer, arranger, producer and educator Maria Marquez.

The class offers a great variety of songs from the different countries in South and Central America including Brazil, with all of its colors, different musical styles, rhythms and beautiful melodies.

The vocalists and musicians explore and perform in a recital a group of songs with interesting arrangements carefully selected by the teacher. The repertoire consists of a great variety of styles: boleros, sambas, Afro Peruvian, Argentinian zambas, chacareras, cha-cha-chas, salsa, waltzes, Cuban son, milongas, folk songs and more.

Vocalists interpret songs in Spanish and or Portuguese individually and as a group. Some knowledge of Spanish is helpful.

This ensemble class includes student musicians. We are always in need of musicians interested in taking this fascinating class.

Especially piano, guitar, bass, drums, percussion and horn players.

FALL OF 2015 CLASS – SPECIAL OFFER!

I am proud to present Tregar Otton as co- teacher for the fall class. Tregar is a musical treasure in the Bay  Area. Arranger, producer, composer, violinist and band leader of the ORQUESTA LA MODERNA TRADICION. I am sure many of you know this group, they have been together for over a decade thanks to the organizational skills and great knowledge and talent of this violinist from Corpus Christi, Texas.

The emphasis for this class, but not exclusively is – HAVE FUN WITH THE CLAVE AND AFRO CUBAN MUSIC – singers and musicians will be able to dig deeper into the roots of Afro Cuban music as well as get a taste of AFRICAN INFLUENCES in the music of other Latin American countries.

BIO:

Tregar Otton (Violin, Composer, Arranger, educator), born in the Marshall Islands and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas and California.

Otton began his classical music training at the age of four. He has been a part of the Bay Area Latin music scene since 1990, working primarily with Orq. La Moderna Tradición (Cuban), Los Cenzontles (Mexican), and the Potaje (Flamenco). While living in New York in the 90’s, he played as a regular member of Virgilo Martí y sus Majaderos with Cuban legends Chocolate Armenteros and Patato Valdez. He also worked closely with Juan Carlos Formell, and with the celebrated New York Charanga groups Orquesta Broadway and La Típica Novel.

Tregar founded Orquesta La Moderna Tradición with Roberto Borrell in 1995. Orq. la Moderna Tradición is a Cuban Charanga orquesta dedicated to playing popular Cuban music that incorporates violins and woodwinds (Danzón, Cha Cha Cha, Son Montuno, and more modern genres). The group has toured extensively in the United States and internationally.

Tregar has been on the faculty of the Community Music Center of San Francisco for over 15 years, teaching both individual and group classes to youth and adults. He teaches a performance oriented class in Cuban Charanga at the Center.

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FALL COURSE

Every Monday
6:30 pm to 8 pm
Starting September 14^th 2015
At LA PENA CULTURAL CENTER
3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley
Duration: 12 weeks at the end of which there will be a recital.

Registration open NOW!
New students should contact me at: orinokia@mariamarquez.com
$ 350.00
www.mariamarquez.com