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

Those of us trained in the traditional, improvisation-phobic classical musical culture often don’t realize that improvisation played a key role in the way people made music, even much of what we now think of as classical music, through the nineteenth century.  While most (but not all) of my own improvising is in non-performance situations, in [...]

All I can say is that teaching improvisation classes to DePauw School of Music freshmen is the absolutely best job in the world. I’ve been having such an amazing time this semester that the amount of experiences to recount is so overwhelming that I haven’t known where to begin.
Today’s class ended up centering [...]