WorldFest: Improvisers Exchange Workshop with Mike Block and Sandeep Das
- Event Type
- Conference/Workshop
- Sponsor
- Spurlock Museum, Center for Advanced Study, Robert E. Brown Center for World Music
- Location
- Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory Street, Urbana
- Date
- Apr 8, 2022 3:00 pm
- Contact
- Spurlock Museum
- spurlock-museum@illinois.edu
- Phone
- 217-333-2360
- Views
- 23
- Originating Calendar
- Spurlock Museum - Event
Mike Block is a pioneering cello player, singer, composer, and educator, hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as the "ideal musician of the 21st-Century." As an educator, Mike is passionate about creativity and collaboration, and is the founding director of Silkroad’s Global Musician Workshop. Along with tabla virtuoso Sandeep Das, participants in this workshop will gain a better understanding of how improvisation factors in the work of this exceptionally eclectic duo.
Co-sponsored by Center for Advanced Study (external link) ; Robert E. Brown Center for World Music. The Spurlock Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.