Online Summer Programs

Faculty: Christopher O’Riley
Ages: 13 – 19
When: June 21 - Aug 12 Tuesday & Thursday, 10 AM - 12 PM
Tuition: $2100 participants | $400 auditors
Application and Video Submission Deadline: May 1
Requirements: Intended for serious students with at least 3 years of study who have an interest in the music of J.S. Bach. Admission based upon video submission of any piece of applicant’s choosing that demonstrates current level of proficiency. Participant enrollment is limited to 12 students.

“Everything We Need To Know About Playing The Piano We Learn From The Well-Tempered Clavier.” - Christopher O’Riley

Join Christopher O’Riley for a guided immersion in Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier and learn how to incorporate that experience into all music! This course provides tools to take the notes off the page and expand your range of interpretive and imaginative skills with a new awareness & perspective of the inherent freedoms within notational parameters.

Through looking at the score in a whole new way, participants and auditors will discern with new eyes and listen with newly attuned ears, developing tools of interpretive depth & ingenuity. This eight week seminar culminates in an online performance of Book 1 of the WTC by participants and Mr. O’Riley.

Participants Schedule

• Access to full 96 video library and assigned episodes for viewing in advance of class
• A weekly 2-hour online seminar discussion & illumination of the week’s assigned episodes
• A weekly 2-hour master class session, in which works of Bach will figure prominently, though not exclusively
• 60 minutes of Private Lesson with Christopher O’Riley over the course of the seminar. Additional time possible as requested for additional tuition.

Auditors Schedule

• 2-hour Observation of seminar discussion & illumination of the week’s assigned episodes
• Access to two selected Instructional Videos, weekly
• Access to 4 masterclasses over the 8 weeks
• One 1-hour Auditors Only Q & A with Christopher O’Riley

Faculty

Pianist, arranger, collaborative artist, composer, educator and media personality; Christopher O’Riley follows his passions into a fractal array of innovative directions, ever striving for the truest and deepest human connection, through performance, collaboration, communion. Living by the Duke Ellington adage, “There are only two kinds of music in the world; good music and the other kind” O’Riley spotlights the greatness inherent in all great music, self-evident in his all-embracing genre-fluid range of projects.

It is with Mr. O’Riley’s dedication to empowering the learning abilities, the personalities and imaginations of artists, young and old, that he comes to his latest endeavor. As he shares performances of his home-recorded traversal of J.S. Bach ~ The Well-Tempered Clavier he has produced an online archive of video lectures, Everything We Need To Know About Playing The Piano We Learn From The Well-Tempered Clavier, a series illuminating a new perspective on each Prelude and Fugue, expanding on all the ways the paucity of Bach’s notation encourages us to engage creatively, imaginatively, engaging the inherent freedoms in all parameters of musical notation; instruction and insight to inspire transcendence and epiphany. For more information, visit christopheroriley.com/about