Class Details

Lower Level

This class will include similar topics as Wendy’s previous classes, with updates and improvements. If you took the class in Term 1 or Term 2 and would like more review and practice with the material, you are welcome to repeat the class.

Build your musicianship skills in this fun and interactive class. Develop your musical ear and understanding of the building blocks of music by singing and writing intervals, chords and scales. Class activities will include sight-singing, dictation (writing down what you hear), conducting, simple composition exercises and playing music games.

An essential class for students with little or no theory background, this class will open your eyes (and ears) to the inner workings of classical music and serve as a bridge to more advanced courses in composition and conducting.

Thursdays @ 7

Class Meetings:

3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6, 5/13

Class ZOOM Link

Instructor Email:

[email protected]

Instructor Bio:

Violist Wendy Clymer is an avid chamber musician and a passionate music educator. She is violist of the Persephone Chamber Ensemble and has performed with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Napa Valley, Grace Note Chamber Players, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Resonance Jazz Ensemble and at summer festivals in the U.S. and Europe. She was a founding member of the New York-based pop punk band Fake Brain. Wendy is on the faculty of the Crowden Music Center and the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, where she has coached chamber music and viola sectionals since 2006. She has held teaching positions at California State University East Bay, the Lafayette School District, and Summer in the City at San Jose State University and has served as president of the San Francisco area section of the American String Teachers Association. She received a B.A. from Brown University, studied viola performance at the Juilliard School and completed an M.M. at San Francisco Conservatory of Music.