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Your Life in Song
July 1, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – July 29, 2025 @ 8:00 pm
This virtual 5-week inclusive songwriting workshop welcomes everyone—from complete beginners to seasoned musicians. The only requirement is your willingness to explore your own experiences through sound and words.
In this workshop, students will compose an original song that authentically captures their personal narratives, beginning with a collaborative playlist of participants’ meaningful musical selections as inspiration.
Students will explore the connection between everyday sounds and musical composition, translating common auditory experiences into melodies and rhythms. The course examines essential musical elements alongside how lyrics interact with these components to create emotional resonance.
Students will develop practical songwriting skills while discovering how their natural understanding of sound enhances their creative expression, culminating in an original song that tells their unique story.
Class times: Tuesdays: July 1, July 8, July 15, July 22, & July 29, 7-8 PM ET
Held via Zoom/Google Classroom
Workshop Highlights:
– Build fundamental songwriting skills across genres
– Create an original song based on personal experiences
– Analyze how lyrics and musical elements work together
– Translate everyday sounds into musical ideas
Concetta Abbate (She/They) centers death, life, and their interplay in her work as a violinist, vocalist, and music composer. Her art invites contemplation, reverie, and play into spaces often avoided: grief, loss, decay, and taboo. Abbate uses beauty as an entry point to make complex sonic forms accessible to a diverse audience.
Her music elegantly crosses genres, drawing on her classical training and decades of study in jazz, folk, and popular forms. Using her violin as an extension of her voice, she weaves enchanting story-songs that ask profound, challenging questions. Grammy.com describes her music as a mix of “Violin and delicate vocals that float between the worlds of Modern Classical, Neo-Folk, and poignant and poetic verse”
Read more: concettaabbate.com/about