Geoffrey Thomas

While teaching a master class at the University of Denver I frequently asked the audience their reactions to the way a musician had just performed. This feedback was enormously valuable to the performing musician and to me. It was gratifying to note that the audience was generally supportive of what I was doing. They often wanted more of a process I had started; playing with more flexibility and more organic gestures, for example. I don’t know yet how it could be done, but building up a performance with direct audience feedback, as we had during the master class, would be a very powerful way to discover how best to communicate.