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Leading a Summer Intensive Chamber Music Central Camp for high school students in Fairfield, CT, 2017.
Sam Bardfeld has been a music educator since 1996, conducting workshops and presenting lectures around the world including Paris, Manila, Vienna and Juilliard in NYC.
He has taught jazz violin as an adjunct faculty member at The New School in New York City since 2007 and is an ongoing lecturer for the chamber music organization, Musica de Camara.
Sam authored the leading book on the Afro-Cuban violin tradition, Latin Violin: How to Play Salsa, Charanga, and Latin Jazz Violin, which has become one of the seminal alternative violin texts available to students and professionals today.
He has taught private lessons on jazz and improvisation to Grammy Award-winning violinists and top freelancers in New York City and continues to mentor students around the country with personal instruction.
Sam has also created and implemented a one-of-a-kind curriculum to teach musical composition to elementary and high-school students.
Leading a workshop at the Banlieues Blues Jazz Festival in Paris, 2009.
Instructional Book:
Latin Violin: How to Play Salsa, Charanga and Latin Jazz Violin
eBook coming soon!
“I see no reason for there ever to be another book besides this one on Latin Violin playing”
“A wonderful book. Sam Bardfeld’s approach to teaching soloing along with being able to listen to examples of the masters of Afro-Cuban style on the violin sparked new and creative ideas in me.”