About this Event
Rhythm Workshop 12.16.26
Rhythm y Ritmica
Join us in person for a fun and engaging rhythm workshop featuring Rogerio Boccato. Perfect for all skill levels, these monthly classes will help you boost your timing, groove, and musical feel. Don't miss out on this chance to dive deep into rhythms and connect with fellow music lovers!
About Rhythm Workshop
This workshop is an open, hands-on exploration of rhythm designed for musicians, dancers, and curious beginners alike. No experience necessary, and all disciplines and levels are welcome. Through call-and-response, movement, and group exercises, we'll build an intuitive, body focused sense of rhythm that goes beyond counting and into feeling.
About our Facilitators:
Michael Morales
Michael is a drummer since childhood and an educator with over 10 years of experience in K-12 music education, facilitating workshops and trainings for educators throughout his career. He is the founder of Rhythm Workshop, a rhythm education curriculum with a 10-year history of engaging musicians, dancers, singers, videographers, music lovers and communities across New York City. RWS has been hosted at The City College of NY, the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Ripley Grier Studios, and The Jazz Gallery. Now at our new UWS location All Angel's Church.
Rogerio Boccato
Brazilian percussionist and educator Rogério Boccato plays/recorded in projects led by some of today’s leading jazz artists, among them Maria Schneider, John Patitucci, Fred Hersch, Brian Blade, Kurt Elling, Danilo Perez, Renee Rosnes, and many others. He has also collaborated with top-ranking Brazilian artists, such as Toninho Horta, Moacir Santos, Zé Renato and Vinicius Cantuária.
He is featured on three Grammy-award winning albums: Kurt Elling & Danilo Perez‘s “Secrets Are The Best Stories“, “The Thompson Fields”, with the Maria Schneider Orchestra, and on Billy Childs’ “Rebirth”. He is also featured on multiple Grammy-nominated albums, among them: Kenny Garrett’s “Beyond The Wall”, John Patitucci‘s “Remembrance“ (alongside Joe Lovano and Brian Blade), and on Alan Ferber’s “Jigsaw“.
As a longtime member of the “Orquestra Jazz Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo”, Rogério Boccato has played with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Hermeto Pascoal, Milton Nascimento, Egberto Gismonti, João Bosco, Joe Zawinul, among many others.
Rogério Boccato has been a faculty member of the , and of the Percussion department of (University of Hartford) teaching Brazilian Music and Ritmica.
The Ritmica system uses exercises designed to work on the musician’s ability to divide their attention between two or three contrasting rhythmic ideas happening at the same time. This process will ignite the development of the inner-ear, helping the musician to internalize rhythm, to feel it, and not just to “know” it from an arithmetical perspective. It will have an enormous impact in your overall musicianship! Created by José Eduardo Gramani; taught by Rogério Boccato.
Agenda
🕑: 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Workshop
Event venue & nearby stays
All Angels' Church, 251 West 80th Street, New York, United States
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