Teaching
Artistic Residencies
Caballito Negro offers workshops and concerts to bring new skills and ideas to audiences of all ages. Our bios follow below....
Tessa Brinckman...
teaches western classical music for the flute, with all its traditions and innovations. This knowledge and technique forms a solid foundation for all kinds of great flute-playing, whether orchestral, solo, chamber, contemporary, non-western, or jazz.
Tessa has studied Body Mapping principles with Barbara Conable and shares this approach with her students towards health and freedom in performance. She encourages curiosity, self-discipline, creativity and problem-solving, teaching from the broadest cultural and historical perspectives down to smallest details between the notes. She's always learning new things to regenerate herself and her music, and enjoys seeing her students get excited about music, and their place in the world.
Tessa has taught masterclasses and private lessons at universities in Oregon, Washington, Ohio, New Zealand and South Africa. Her own extensive studies include those with Keith Underwood (flute), Zart Doubourian Eby (piccolo), Janet See (baroque flute) and Rose Okada (Hindustani/Kirana raga). She has an MMus in flute performance from Portland State University, and a BA from Victoria University, New Zealand.
Terry Longshore...
approaches percussion education with a multi-cultural approach, emphasizing rhythm and percussion from the perspective many of the world's traditions, including India, Africa, the Middle East, and Indonesia. Improvisation plays a pivotal role in his teaching technique, including perspectives from many cultures.
Terry has taught at several universities and colleges, and is Associate Professor of Music, Chair of the Music Department, and Director of Percussion Studies at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon.
Terry holds bachelor’s degrees from the California State University at Fresno and Sacramento. He earned master’s and doctoral degrees in contemporary music performance from the University of California, San Diego where he studied under percussion virtuoso Steven Schick. He has also studied tabla with Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri at the Ali Akbar College of Music with additional studies in Indian classical music with sitar virtuoso Kartik Seshadri.
