Join internationally acclaimed guitarist, educator, and Dalcroze Eurhythmics practitioner, Brian Katz for an afternoon intensive where you’ll discover a variety of new ways to approach playing, practicing, and conceptualizing the guitar as an integral component of your Music Therapy practice.

Brian Katz, a seasoned musician, educator, and long time “inhabitant” of “guitar culture,” will guide participants in a rich variety of hands on/ears on techniques and explorations, with attention, to the necessity of being well-grounded in the basics, and understanding how to expand upon them.

By the conclusion of this workshop, participants will, especially, feel that they have a “tool kit” that will enable them to play at whatever level they are at with good, projected, tone, elegance, dynamics, more embodied, rooted, rhythm and overall confidence. Learners will feel empowered to discover more with their guitars and understand both logical/sequenced procedures (such as permutations of fingerpicking patterns), refinement of particular techniques (such as rest and free strokes), and more playful, discovery-oriented techniques/strategies involving improvisation that will begin to transform their guitar playing. My intention is to inspire participants to grow with their guitar skills and find new and interesting applications of these newfound skill sets to their particular Music Therapy practices. There will be some take-home handouts provided.

Call 416-658-5687 for reservations
$9.00 Admission

Enoch Turner Schoolhouse

Zita Petrak – piano
Brian Katz – guitar
Lenka Lichtenberg – voice

Tickets : $30 , Students $15
$35, $20 – (cash at the door )

CD – $15

To purchase tickets: email ztptrk@gmail.com OR call 647 – 294 6467

Payment by E-transfer to ztptrk@gmail.com
Tickets will be emailed to you or you can pick up prepaid tickets at the concert.

We recommend purchasing tickets ahead of time as we can not guarantee there will be seats available.

$12 cash at door.

KatzTollar Pop-Up Performances at Aga Khan Museum.

KatzTollar Pop-Up Performances at Aga Khan Museum.

KatzTollar Pop-Up Performances at Aga Khan Museum.

Brian Katz – guitar/piano and Ernie Tollar – sax/eastern flutes

Brian Katz is widely acclaimed for his personal approach to playing modern jazz and klezmer music on the classical guitar, and for his evocative compositions; saxophonist/ bansuri flautist/ney player, Ernie Tollar for his outstanding ability to synthesize diverse musical traditions. KatzTollar mostly performs original compositions and “comprivisations” (compositions made up on the spot!) in the “world jazz” genre: the music is rooted in the modern jazz tradition and extends outwards to embrace elements of Middle Eastern, East Indian, Classical and various world music traditions.

Ernie Tollar performed his first professional gigs at age 16 and has since toured Europe, India, Egypt, Kapuskasing, U.S.A., Argentina, Mexico and Canada. He has performed and recorded with an incredible array of artists including Holly Cole, Kenny Wheeler, Trichy Sankaran, Joe Lovano, Maze Mazé, Space Trio, as well as several bands with his wife, vocalist Maryem Tollar; their collaborative 2009 recording, “Cairo to Toronto,” garnered them a JUNO award nomination.

Of “Leaves Will Speak,” Brian Katz’s recent solo guitar recording, music critic, Stanley Fefferman of Opus 1 Reviews writes: “The whole vibe is Brian’s own blend of classical, medieval, Spanish, Jazz, Blues, finger-picking Folk, Greek, Middle Eastern and Klezmer— you can hear all those threads in the weave of this album’s harmonic fabric. You can enjoy the play of musical intelligence on this album, and dig into a rich horde of experience gathered along the way of Brian’s 30-year international career.”

Cupid, The Slyest Rogue Alive
The Toronto Temperance Society
An afternoon with The Cygnet Committee, Lara Solnicki, Brian Katz & George Koller

Tickets: $20, purchased at the door or in advance
$15 for purchasing 4 tickets or more in advance

“This fanciful concert, falling somewhere between the cracks of jazz and classical music, is the first full-length  performance of a unique trio, formed a couple of years ago. I’ve wanted to call such an ensemble. The Cygnet Committee for a number of years, and now, of course, it also serves as a sort of tribute to the great David Bowie (imaginatively, if not musically)! The ensemble includes my friend– a most original voice on the classical guitar… wonderful performer, composer, improviser Brian Katz… and bassist extraordinaire, producer of my second album “Whose Shadow?“, George Koller… Along with creative arrangements of jazz standards, we will be performing unique interpretations of music by Henry Purcell, Maurice Ravel’s Greek and Hebrew melodies, music from de Falla’s Siete Canciones Espanolas, wordless songs by Ralph Towner… I will be singing in English, French, Yiddish and Spanish!”
Lara Solnicki

A Smorgasbord of Dalcrozian Delights with:

• Sharon Dutton: elementary music teacher, Halton District School Board; – vice-president, Dalcroze Canada
• Brian Katz: music pedagogy teacher, University of Toronto / York University; – performer, composer, inventor of YidRhythmics and JazzRhythmics
• Marianna Kotyk: Eutony and Dalcroze teacher; – collaborative artist with special interest in creativity and plastique animée
• Peter Merrick: music teacher, Upper Canada College, Toronto; – president, Dalcroze Canada

Presenting a variety of Dalcrozian pedagogical morsels, including rhythmic movement, aural perception, improvisation, and plastique animée.

Admission: Free for Dalcroze members; $20.00 (at the door) for non-members
Please RSVP at info@dalcrozecanada.com by May 26.