Michael Udow: Healthy Playing: How to Effectively Incorporate Concepts of Musicality while Maintaining Excellent Physical Health – a Hands-On Power-Point Clinic and a Masterclass Session – September 15, 2026: 7:00 – 9:00 am Eastern Time

September 15, 2026: 7:00 – 9:00 am Eastern Time

Healthy Playing: How to Effectively Incorporate Concepts of Musicality while Maintaining Excellent Physical Health – a Hands-On Power-Point Clinic and a Masterclass Session (2 hr session)

Mind-body integration is essential to maintaining your mental and physical health throughout your career. This Clinic/Masterclass will focus on the physical components that integrate practical, logical concepts that effectively meld Stickings with Stroke-Types, creating musical fluidity. This clinic portion will take approximately one hour. A Question and Answer session is included.

For the second half of the class, Professor Udow invites six (6) participants who would like to refine their performance to be prepared to play any of the following excerpts:
• Glockenspiel – The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Dukas (Vif Reh.[17]+4 to [18]Xylophone –
• Hary Janos Suite Entrance of the Emperor and His Court 12 measures from Alla Marcia + 4
• Tambourine – Carnival Overture – Dvorak [U – 8] – end.
• Marimba – Libertango – Piazzolla, arr. Sammut (M.46 -51). or any composition or excerpt on any percussion instrument that you are working on where you think you are having to use undue muscle tension to execute the passage.

Each performer will be allowed 10 minutes to play and be coached in a masterclass setting with auditors watching, and must pay a premium fee on a first-come, first-served basis. Auditors may attend the entire class at a lower fee.