Music Lessons for
Adult Beginners
About the Instructors
Ginger Dolden is a multi-instrumentalist and producer based in Brooklyn New York. Recently, she been seen live on KEXP, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Last Call with Carson Daly and has performed at Roulette, Issue Project Room, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Ace Hotel, La MaMa, Joe’s Pub, Jalopy, Barbés, and The American Folk Art Museum. She has worked and recorded with artists including: Anthony Braxton, John Cale, Anthony Coleman, Yoshiko Chuma, Tony Conrad, Holly Miranda, Aaron Frazer, Durand Jones and the Indications, The Hot Sardines, Lady Lamb, Katie Von Schleicher, and performs with The String Orchestra of Brooklyn and The Chelsea Symphony.
Pete Lanctot is a songwriter, composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and teacher living in Brooklyn, NY. He has toured and or recorded with Durand Jones and the Indications, Iris Dement, John Cale, The Hot Sardines, Holly Miranda, Tony Conrad, and Anthony Coleman, has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Last Call with Carson Daly, and has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Music Hall of Williamsburg, MoMA, the American Folk Art Museum, Littlefield, Joe’s Pub, The Ace Hotel, and Issue Project Room. Pete is the on-call strings player and arranger for the television and film scoring house Hyperballad Music and composed and recorded the score for the 2018 Derek Shane Garcia film The Experience which won the award for best director at the Chelsea Film Festival.
About the Program
Bantam Studios was created by Ginger Dolden and Pete Lanctot in 2012 to address the growing needs from their adult private students and to provide the opportunity to many of the people in their community who always "wished they could learn". Since 2012 we have been evolving our curriculum to best fit the needs of our students, understanding that everyone learns differently and might have a different end goal.
Classes and assignments are designed to fit the schedules of working adults and meet once-a-week per 8-week session. Each one-hour session is a dense lesson that covers techniques repertoire, history and exercises to help students move through the curriculum while learning ways to incorporate a regular music practice into their daily lives.
For many students class-time is a time that is set aside for an individual to focus on self-care and self-interests and we work really hard to make sure that this valuable time is worthwhile and meaningful.
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