The Idea of 10,000 hours

With Andrew Sterman from the Philip Glass Ensemble

Monday, Oct 2 @ 6:30pm, 2023

The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi

Past Event

Understand and discover the tools that good musicians use to take their music practice to the next level.

The workshop explores the idea of body-knowing and muscle memory from a mind-body integrative perspective. Drawing inspiration from psychologists who studied the learning patterns of musicians, chess players, and sports masters, the workshop emphasizes the importance of 10,000 hours of good work in bringing about a special kind of body-knowing. Participants will learn practice tools to relax stressors and self-defeating habits, while increasing love for their art and personal expressiveness.

Biography

Andrew Sterman

Andrew Sterman (flute, piccolo, saxophone) joined the Philip Glass Ensemble since 1992, and has a highly personal presence in the music community (The New York Times: “beautiful, sensitive, and high-energy playing,” Wall Street Journal: “Powerful, standout moment”, National Post Canada: “Searing”, London Observer: “Virtuosic”). He has performed or recorded with a stunning array of artists, including Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Bruce Springsteen, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Fred Hersch, Rashied Ali, and countless more. He has performed in dozens of Broadway shows, often as an onstage soloist, and recorded on many significant film scores.

As a composer Sterman has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts resulting in two commissions. His album The Path To Peace was called, “A major conceptual work, whose exquisite ebb and flow merits listening by a worldwide audience” (All About Jazz: New York), and “A wonderful and inspiring album” (Philip Glass). Of his Wet Paint album: “Questing, devoid of self-indulgence, emotionally flexible” (Jazz Times), “emotive lyricism, inventively architected, superb compositional pen”(JazzReview).

Sterman is a noted teacher, and designer of the Wellness for Performing Artists course at the New School where he is on the faculty. He also teaches qigong and the use of food for healing, and is author of the two-volume book, Welcoming Food: Diet as Medicine for the Home Cook and Other Healers (2020, Classical Wellness Press, NYC) and teaches both music and food practice internationally as well as in New York City.