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Home Order People Reviews Video The Author FAQ Links Contact BOOKS: Jazz Wizard Junior book 1 (middle school) Jazz Wizard Junior book 2 (upper middle/high school) Jazz Fiddle Wizard (College) ORCHESTRA MUSIC: Stringin' the Blues (grade 3.5) Swing on a String (grade 3) Swing There, Done That (grade 2.5) STRING QUARTET MUSIC: Jammin' Jazz Standards Workshops: Descriptions Schedule Feedback Pictures Handouts Education: Syllabus 1 Syllabus 2 Students Arrangements History: Seifert Interview Discography Jazz Violin Radio: Listen About The following was sent to me on August 5th, 2010 by a student after an audition for the Berklee College of Music (used by permission): Hey Dr. Norgaard, So I just want to say thank you so much for the help you gave me before the audition. It went soooo well! I don't think I've ever had an audition like that one and I'm still in shock from it. All in all, it was awesome and I owe alot of it to you and I thank you for that. Randy Sabien is using Jazz Fiddle Wizard with his college students at McNally Smith College of Music. He sent me this in an email on 1/27/2010 (used by permission): "We are working through the book and it's just great. Perfect for my college students." I was the featured clinician and artist at the Jazz String Fest, 2009 at Kaukauna High school in Wisconsin. The director send me this quote: “ Martin Norgaard is not only an astonishing jazz violinist but a top notch educator. In five hours he moved a high school orchestra group through improv exercises on major scales, blues scales and on to “I Got Rhythm ” changes- and everyone took a solo in each format! I would highly recommend him to any school string director as a clinician. ” Lori Lacey Kaukauna, WI Schools Orchestra Director Host- Kaukauna Jazz Strings Festival The following is an excerpt from an email I received from Lisa Lindvall on November 11, 2007 concerning her 7 year old daughter Hannah (used by permission): She [Hannah] absolutely loves your music and improvising. She is working her way through the 2 books - pretty much on her own. She performed La Luna in October and wrote her own solo, which she turned into a short composition. I'm still planning on recording that one as soon as I can get someone to play the piano for her. On Saturday, she performed Lazy Note Blues. She learned the first solo in the book and then improvised for the next 12 bars. I'm attaching a shortcut to the video of the performance in case you would like to see it [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD4OTbPjCqk ]. The solo she played isn't one that she prepared, it was completely spontaneous, but it worked. I think she is planning on learning Northern Lights next. She was playing along to it in the car last week. It is amazing to see/hear how her ears work. Anyway, thank you again. I don't know if I would ever have realized that she [has] such an ear or a gift for improvisation if she hadn't had your class. The down side of it is that she often turns all of her Suzuki material into a minor key or transposes it where ever she pleases just to annoy me. I don't think that is too high a price to pay - it actually is rather amusing.

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