Improvisation for Classical Musicians Eric Edberg’s commentary and resources for classicial musicians who improvise, or want to.

The Giles Apap videos have triggered a good bit of controversey, including this thread in the ICS Cello Chat forum. (The thread will probably disappear in a month or two.)
Greg Sandow likes it:
The cadenza must be about eight minutes long, and involves gypsy music, whistling, tapping on the violin, music for the orchestra as [...]

Ah! Gilles Apap.
An email from a friend just introduced me to this classically-trained violinist who improvises in virtually every musical style. My friend is a classical concert pianist who loves jazz and Piazzolla, and is generally adventerous. He loves this cadenza to the third movement of the Mozart 3rd violin concerto.

It brings up [...]