Lecture Ab Schaap in Salzburg

Thursday, May 15 and Friday, May 16, Ab Schaap, teacher at the Rotterdam Conservatoire, delivered a lecture in the famous Mozarteum in Salzburg. The title of his lecture: Mozart's Improvisationskunst und Charlie Parker.

On first sight or hearing the pianist and composer Mozart and saxophonist and composer Parker have nothing to do with each other. W. Mozart lived in Salzburg and Vienna from 1756 to 1791 and Charlie Parker just under two centuries later in Kansas City and New York from 1920 to 1955. What do they have in common after all? The same improvisation techniques. In his lecture at the Mozarteum in Salzburg on 15 and 16 May, Ab Schaap from Codarts demonstrated that students of classical music can learn a lot from both of them and need to learn to improvise once more.
Read the full article on ScienceGuide.nl (text in Dutch).

Ab Schaap plays the saxophone, but he is a gifted clarinettist and flutist as well. He also is a composer and arranger. At the Rotterdam Conservatoire he teaches theory and ensembles. He is a master teacher and a member of the master key team as well.

Biography Ab Schaap (pdf file).