Trent University - Continuing Education

Join musician Victoria Yeh for a fun afternoon of creative music making! Transform your relationship with music into one of curiosity, discovery and new possibilities! Whether you’re new to improv, or looking for ways to inject new sounds and creativity to your existing musical practice, this workshop is for you.

We'll learn easy ways to improvise over familiar tunes, and how to make creative and interesting harmonic and rhythmic choices. Most importantly, we'll learn how to let go, tune into what's happening around us and find new inspiration.

This workshop is open to community members who play any instrument with intermediate to advanced proficiency. You don’t need to be able to read music, but you should be familiar with note names on your own instrument and be able to play your instrument independently. All levels of experience with improvising are welcome.

About the instructor

Victoria Yeh has been performing as a professional musician from coast-to-coast-to-coast in everything from prog rock bands to classical symphony orchestras for over 20 years. She has served as Concertmaster for the Summerhill Orchestra (Toronto), Georgian Bay Symphony (Owen Sound) and Northumberland Orchestra (Cobourg) and tours with east coast folk group The Shipyard Kitchen Party, jazz fusion band Paul DeLong’s ONE WORD, and her own band, Victoria Yeh’s Spirit Awakens. When not on stage, Victoria is a recording artist and composer with credits on Netflix, TVO, Hallmark Channel and more. She is also an award -winning violin teacher, teaching privately in Peterborough and as a faculty member of Christian Howes’ global Creative Strings Academy. www.VictoriaYeh.com