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Enjoy 2 music lessons from Elliot Sharp!  Elliot is an internationally renowned composer, performer, lecturer, and producer whose work ranges from noise rock to opera, jazz, blues, and electronica.  Winner of the 2015 Berlin Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014, Sharp pioneered use of fracatal geometry and genetics to musical composition and interaction.  He may be found playing guitars, basses, saxophones, or clarinets; conducting orchestras and chamber groups; or doing mixes live or in the studio.  He has taught and lectured to students of all ages and all levels of skill.  Lessons may be for any instrument and for any level - from beginner to advanced. 

http://elliottsharp.com/

Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.

A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over 30 years, Elliott Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from orchestral music to blues, jazz, noise, no wave rock, and techno music. He leads the projects Carbon and Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction.

His collaborators have included Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt; pop singer Debbie Harry; Ensemble Modern; Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Kronos String Quartet; Ensemble Resonanz; cello innovator Frances Marie Uitti; blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples; pipa virtuoso Min-Xiao Feng; jazz greats Jack deJohnette, Oliver Lake, and Sonny Sharrock; multimedia artists Christian Marclay and Pierre Huyghe; and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians Of Jajouka.

Sharp is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2014 Fellow at Parson's Center for Transformative Media. He received the 2015 Berlin Prize in Musical Composition from the American Academy in Berlin. He has composed scores for feature films and documentaries; created sound-design for interstitials on The Sundance Channel, MTV and Bravo networks; and has presented numerous sound installations in art galleries and museums. He is the subject of a new documentary "Doing The Don't" by filmmaker Bert Shapiro.

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Not redeemable for cash.  Must schedule appointment directly with Elliot Sharp.

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