Point Loma Nazarene Students Benefit from Clavinova
Yamaha
specialist Phillip Keveren is in his second full year of teaching music
composition at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. As a means
of increasing the students’ creative options, he recently secured the
use of a Clavinova CVP109 digital piano. He has ten composition majors
in their junior and senior years whom he teaches individually and once
a month in a composition group forum.
In addition to the Clavinova, Keveren brings in guest musicians to his class. Last year the students were treated to the knowledge and experience of Jackson Berkey from Mannheim Steamroller and film orchestrator Larry Rench. Prior to obtaining the CVP109, Keveren was using an acoustic piano to teach his class. According to Keveren, “The college has a lab of CVP79’s and 69’s for group piano, but had no experience with what could be done at a professional level with the Clavinova technology.”
The
CVP109 has proven to be a valuable teaching tool for Keveren and his fortunate
students. “There are so many creative applications now available
with this instrument,” says Keveren. “Students are able to sequence
as they compose, allowing evaluation of their work in progress. It is
extremely helpful for a student to hear how a complex orchestration works
before it is performed by live musicians. The wide variety of rich sounds
within the CVP is also stimulating their creativity to write music expressly
for the Clavinova, both solo and in ensemble settings.”
Now that the CVP109 is a major part of his composition class, Keveren
intends to use the instrument for a spring performance of “Toccatanova”
and a new piece he is writing specifically for multiple Clavinova digital
pianos and a concert choir.
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