Hearing Your Way Through a Song (Jazz Performance Workshop with Lauren Lark)

Thanks to our generous donors and sponsors, this event if FREE for the community, however tickets must be reserved at link below. All ages welcome.  Please join us prior to the event at 6PM for a Art gallery reception. 

This performance workshop focuses on what we do naturally as we listen to music. Listening sounds easy enough, but have you really heard the form of a song? Do you know when to start singing/playing? Audience members will participate in singing their way through a song. While having fun clapping and along with Lauren, she will demonstrate the three ways of identifying your place in a song.  Exploring what jazz form is.

About Lauren Lark: As a native to Philadelphia, Lauren Lark began singing and playing the violin at the early age seven. This exposure pushed Lauren to attend the acclaimed Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. There she began to cultivate her knowledge of Gospel, Hip-Hop, Blues, Classical and Jazz music. Pursuing this extensive study of all these genres of music enabled Lark’s overall sense of versatility as a vocalist. Her personal preference and style, though, is heavily jazz-influenced.

She went on to complete her B.M. and Masters in Music Performance at the University of the Arts and received the coveted Best Jazz Vocalist Award upon graduation. While attending University, Lauren was taught by (and performed with) accomplished jazz musicians such as:  J.D. Walter, Christian McBride, Reginald Pindell, and Gerald Veasley. Having had the opportunity to work with the percussionist Doc Gibbs, Lark has extended her musical vocabulary into the rhythmic genre of Afro-Cuban music as well.

As a sought-after musician in the Tri-State area and having performed regularly in various jazz & classical ensembles, Lauren’s voice has graced the stages of The Cape May Jazz Festival, Welcome America Parade, Coltrane Jazz Festival, Philadelphia’s Clef Club for Performing Arts, Barnes Museum and The Kimmel Center for Performing Arts. She has been a featured soloist for the Philly Pops as well as a member of The Voices of the Pops. Lark continues to direct and perform with her own groups such as The Lauren Lark Big Band and Quartet. Recently she has had the opportunity to show her comedic side while acting in the Musical Theater production of 3 Divas 3.

Lauren also has co-founded Lark Music Studio, a private music studio for voice, piano, and harp; as well as Tyke Quest, an infant & toddler music, movement, and exploration program. She expects to continue and explore an intimate take on her music and develop her entrepreneurial spirit as she embarks on a new chapter in life & motherhood.

Lauren currently coaches and trains young and upcoming artists at the University of the Arts in all genres of vocal arts.