Description

with Suzanne Teng & Gilbert Levy

Suzanne and Gilbert will work with you to create, prepare, arrange and record your own masterpiece! Suzanne will help you flesh out a musical idea from hearing you play just a few notes or from preconceived musical ideas. She’ll serve as music producer as she helps clarify the vision of the piece, helping you to develop the idea, create a structure, and guide you through the entire recording process.

Gilbert, an award winning engineer, will have you sounding better than you’ve ever heard yourself. He will also perform and record a selection of drums, percussion, stringed instruments, hand-pan, and synthesizer pads to accompany your flute part.  During this session, you will become a recording artist/composer, learning about mic technique, overdubs, song development/arranging, and mixing techniques.

You will witness the blossoming of your musical idea into a completed composition, and leave with a fully produced and professionally recorded masterpiece!
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Cost includes two-hour recording session plus one-hour post production mixing session, all supporting musical performances by Gilbert and Suzanne, and MP3, MP4 and WAV files emailed to you within a week following Flute Camp (or during Flute Camp if you schedule your session early in the week).

For $85/hour extra, a more complex masterpiece can have multiple overdubs, fine-tuned mixing for commercial-ready release, tuning of pitches, additional accompaniment, all done in post-production after camp. Sign up for this option at camp after you discuss your masterpiece ideas with Suzanne.​

About the facilitators:

Suzanne and her husband/music partner Gilbert Levy – a New Orleans born drummer who has performed with jazz greats Wynton and Branford Marsalis –   have released seven critically acclaimed albums.  They have won numerous awards including the Independent Music Awards (twice), International Acoustic Music Awards, Los Angeles Music Awards,   New Mexico Music Awards,  Native America Style Flute Awards Album of the Year, Akademia Music Awards, Global Music Awards (Gold Medal),  Peace Song Awards, and InterContinental Music Awards.  Suzanne was recently awarded the Best Multiple Flutes Player Award from the World Flute Society. 

Their music has been licensed for hundreds of film, television, commercial and video productions and was featured on NBC’s America’s Got Talent.  Appreciated for its sacred, relaxing and heart opening qualities, their works have been used in numerous healing recordings, films and videos, including a special CD compilation of their music created by the pharmaceutical company Genentech that was distributed to over 50,000 cancer patients to aid in their recovery. “Mystic Journey…lifts the listener to a place where beauty, ecstasy and tranquility reside” (Whole Life Times) both in recordings and live performances, as demonstrated in venues where they have performed such as the Dalai Lama’s International World Festival of Sacred Music, where they were featured artists each year of the festival. Suzanne and Gilbert have also composed and recorded music for yoga and acupuncture DVDs and several films including  the documentaries “Raw for 30” and “Beirut Rising.” They live in Santa Fe with their dog, cat, a coop of chickens, and their son Miles, when he visits home for the holidays.

Learn more about Suzanne Teng and Gilbert Levy at SuzanneTeng.com, and MysticJourney.net.

Min Students: 1
Max Students: 6