Teachers 2024
Taryn Spink
Taryn Spink is a Hurdy Gurdy player and teacher; a freelance musician in the Los Angeles area; and a professional music teacher. Her musical journey began with the piano at the age of 8 and then with the French Horn at the age of 10, both of which she continued to study through college at Azusa Pacific University. During her time at APU, she received a Bachelor of Music in Performance, Bachelor of Arts in English with a writing concentration, a Masters of Arts in Education with a concentration in Digital Teaching and Learning, and a California Single Subject Teaching Credential specializing in music. She has performed throughout the country and the world with notable performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, International Musical Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales, and at the International Chamber Choir Competition in Marktoberdorf Germany. Beyond performing, Taryn has over 10 years of music teaching experience both as a private instructor and as a public school music teacher; from teaching elementary music education, middle school and high school band and choir, and teaching private students of all ages. Taryn’s Hurdy Gurdy journey began as a curiosity, then a dream, but it quickly blossomed into a full fledged passion for all things Hurdy Gurdy. She continues to study with Alexis Vacher and Richard Taylor, and she is conducting ethnomusicological studies in the field of French Folk or “Trad” music. She loves the Hurdy Gurdy and is inspired to share it with others. Follow her journey on instagram
@hurdygurdyjourney
Scott Gayman
Scott Gayman (Southern California): Scott began study in 2005 at the Over the Water Hurdy Gurdy Festival and continued study with his good friend and teacher Richard Taylor. Throughout the next 18 years, Richard Taylor tirelessly tutored Scott, teaching him a great deal about the hurdy gurdy and introducing him to great people and incredible players throughout the world. In the past 18 years, Scott has had the pleasure of studying with Patrick Bouffard, Jean Michel Peru, Tobie Miller, Anne-Lise Foy, Laurent Bitaud, Maxou Heitzin, and Mathias Loidner. He is primarily a French Trad player but teaches music from around the world.
Scott has also spent considerable time studying hurdy gurdy construction and maintenance. With help from Curtis Berak, and the ability to study Curtis’ extensive collection as well as develop a considerable collection of his own, Scott began picking out minor, yet important, details of hurdy gurdy construction. Scott uses his knowledge to help the students of the Indiana Hurdy Gurdy Workshop to maintain and improve their instruments. Scott provides training and assistance for students to help learn how to repair, maintain, and set up their instruments at the workshop as well. You will not find this training anywhere else in the US.
(Arrive early on Wednesday and Scott and Taryn will help you adjust your instrument for your future classes)
Robert Green
Robert Green has performed concerts of eighteenth-century music for hurdy-gurdy throughout the US, France and Israel. His book The Hurdy-Gurdy in Eighteenth-Century France was published by Indiana University Press. He co-authored the article on the hurdy-gurdy for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He has released two CDs of eighteenth-century music for hurdy-gurdy on the FOCUS label. He is Professor emeritus, Northern Illinois University.
Tom Lozano
Tom Lozano is an instrumentalist, vocalist and composer born in Barcelona, Spain, and raised between southern Spain and Catalonia. Known for his eclectic musicianship, Lozano’s performance of Spain’s traditional ballads sung in Castilian, Catalan and Galician, stand out as iconic. Lozano also plays contemporary, popular and European folk music from France, Spain, Britain, the Middle East and Sepharat. Beyond that, he performs his original compositions, solo or accompanied. He currently performs with Duo Krupoves Lozano, Daily Bread & Butter, Tamango, Salaam, Shakespeare’s Ear, Kativar and 2Thousand. Lozano has studied hurdy gurdy with Adrià Grandia, Scott Gayman, Juan Wijngaard, Efrén López, and several more hurdy gurdy teachers. He has performed throughout Europe, the US, Canada, Mexico and Costa Rica. For more info about his performances, programs and publications please visit: www.tomaslozano.com