Our BUZZ :Music *Harmony * Nature -Partner: Martha Mooke
- JC Poet
- Mar 20
- 2 min read
Martha Mooke is a Grammy Award-winning, pioneering electric violist/composer, highly regarded for her artistry, music advocacy, and innovative educational programs. A self-described "Creative Instigator" transcending stylistic boundaries, she empowers others to discover their inner creative voice.
Founder and Artistic Director of the Scorchio Quartet, Mooke and Scorchio are featured on David Bowie's Heathen, Trey Anastasio's Live From Princeton and Carla Patullo's Grammy winning album, So She Howls, and perform as resident quartet in the Tibet House Benefit Concerts at Carnegie Hall produced by Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson. She has toured with Barbra Streisand, Andrea Bocelli, Peter Gabriel and Star Wars in Concert, and performed with David Bowie, Philip Glass, Elton John, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, and Tony Bennett among others. Mooke is featured on Laurie Anderson's recent Nonesuch release, Amelia.
She has been a featured speaker at PopTech, SXSW EDU, NAMM/CMS, National and Regional Music Conferences including ASTA and NJMEA and popular podcasts. Mooke received the prestigious ASCAP Concert Music Award for creating and producing ASCAP's new music showcase THRU THE WALLS featuring boundary defying composer/performers.
Mooke, a longtime Yamaha Artist and Eventide's first Artist-in-Residence, created and directs the cutting edge, Multi-Style Strings program at New Jersey City University.
EDUCATOR :
Martha Mooke has been one of Yamaha's leading electric string artist/clinicians for the past decade, traveling worldwide presenting workshops, masterclasses, lectures and concerts. Whether it's a one hour seminar, 3-day school residency or as a visiting faculty member, Martha's unique brand of experience, creativity, technique and philosophical approach to making music is an invaluable asset to students and teachers alike.
Under the direction of electro-acoustic violist Martha Mooke, Director of NJCU Multi-Style Strings, with special guest artists including Grammy-nominated violinists Regina Carter and Jeremy Kittel, virtuoso cellist Dave Eggar, and others, you will learn to play and learn to teach a wide variety of styles, including jazz, Latin, R&B, blues, African, Celtic, bluegrass, folk, and rock. Each day will feature repertoire of varying grade levels and styles, different approaches to improvisation and ways of incorporating electronics.
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