ZITHER SESSIONS WITH CATHERINE WEIDEMANN
A multi-day immersion
Develop your musicality
The experience of a session
An in-person session is much more than a simple class: it is a multi-day immersion, in which music and technical deepening are intertwined — or a broader discovery of playing if you are a beginner — with professional follow-up and personalized guidance, with a precise eye on your musical gestures and an attentive ear to develop your musicality.
You can watch me play and listen to me live, ask your questions at any time. I can correct your posture, adjust your movements, help you feel a different quality of gesture that brings more harmony and fluidity to your playing.
These sessions are also an opportunity to share with other zither and psaltery players, to play in a group, to exchange tips, and to experience themed evenings chosen according to the group's wishes (lutherie, ensemble music, mini-concerts, prayer vigils, pentatonic improv, etc).
Each session offers a precise orientation, combining musicality, technique and inner listening, in a supportive working atmosphere where everyone progresses at their own pace — and where no one slows the group down.
Programme
Orientation: Repertoire ♦ Liturgy ♦ Improvisation —
Repertoire
Deepening technique and musical expressiveness
Working on pieces or melodies arranged for zither or psaltery. Refining technique and enriching musical expressiveness.
Seeking greater body awareness to "live the music to the very fingertips" with more harmony.
Improvisation
Between inner listening and musical freedom
Learning or perfecting improvisation by opening a creative space grounded in listening, inner singing, understanding of harmony and musical freedom.
Liturgy
A customized path to deepen accompaniment
Adapting and developing one's playing to liturgical needs: accompaniment of psalms and songs, theoretical notions for harmonizing and finding the right chords, instrumental technique.
Practical information
Practical details
For any information, contact Catherine Weidemann catherine.weidermann@psalmos.fr https://psalterion.info Session: Group maximum 12 participants Bring your instrument if at all possible otherwise Free instrument loan, subject to available instruments Guest house: bring sheets and towels if possible (otherwise rental for €8) Catered meals with the groupSuggested offering
Session: fixed rate
Registration fee: €75 • 4-day session: €200
to which guest house costs must be added
Getting there
Champagne-Ardenne TGV station, Reims city center, or Reims Maison Blanche, then city bus
2 hours from Paris, exit 23 on the A4 highway, parking available at the monastery
Why not!