Ensemble
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Hal Crook, Professor
DEPARTMENT : Ensemble Department"Good ensemble playing requires the ability to hear not only your own playing, but all the playing that is happening around you—to hear your musical relationship to the other players acutely, so that it informs and guides your musical actions. The more advanced your playing skills are, the more capable you will be of dividing your listening attention between yourself and the band."
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Skip Smith, Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Ensemble Department"I didn't have a special teaching style when I came to Berklee. Goodness, no. I think what I had was a lot of ability to learn and adapt very quickly. I was on the road for 30 years or more. And being on the road, you're used to change. In a classroom situation, things change all the time. The attitude I have is that I don't know everything, especially teaching contemporary music. In a sense, I'm learning from the students, too, because they bring in tunes by groups that I've never heard of."
Read MoreDavid Santoro, Professor
DEPARTMENT : Ensemble Department- Bassist and pianist
- Leader of Dave Santoro's Standard Band featuring Jerry Bergonzi and the Dick Oatts/Dave Santoro Quartet
- Member of the Dick Oatts Trio and Quartet and the Jerry Bergonzi Quartet