Alisa Rose on Creativity, Body Awareness & Her Duo Album "Speranza" with Tristan Scroggins

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Alisa Rose is a multi-style violinist and fiddler, composer and educator, and in this episode we’re shining a light on her wonderful new album with mandolinist Tristan Scroggins, Speranza. You’ll hear about how she found her way to such an interesting and diverse career from learning Old-Time music from retired farmers in Wisconsin as a child to classical training with the legendary Camilla Wicks at the San Francisco Conservatory, where she’s come full circle as a teacher. Alisa shared wonderful insights into teaching music, including body awareness and using creativity prompts in her improvisation classes. She shared powerful experiences from her tour in Eastern Europe as an Ambassador of the State Department, and advice about the benefits of organizing house concerts. Like all my episodes, you can watch this on my YouTube channel or listen to the podcast on many podcast platforms, and I’ve also linked the transcript to my website . Speranza album Buy me a coffee? Thanks! Podcast Merch Alisa Rose Website Percussion Caprice video Podcast Newsletter Other episodes you'll like: Brittany Haas Sara Caswell Joe K. Walsh Guy Donis Gina Burgess Tracy Silverman Timestamps (00:00) Intro (02:02) duo with mandolinist Tristran Scroggins (06:29) baritone violin, composing Reaper (09:41) clip from Reaper (10:50) writing Space Samba, with clip (13:22) childhood Suzuki and Old Time (17:33) Camilla Wicks (20:19)Fiddle and Pizzicato Caprices (22:02) live performance of Alisa’s Percussion Caprice (25:49) other episodes you’ll like and how to support this series (26:44) reducing tension, teaching improv (32:37) writing Klezmer-style Lasso the Squirrel with clip (34:27) different styles, Bettina Mussumeli (35:37) Real Vocal string quartet, Eastern European tour (43:09) Grammy nomination, other collaborations (44:47) balancing parenting and performing, house concert opportunities (46:40) clip of Pandemic Buddy (47:41)set lists, parenthood, composing her violin concerto

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