Hurdy-Gurdy for (more) advanced – Benoit Roblin

French hurdy-gurdy player Benoit Roblin is coming to give a workshop this day especially for advanced to advanced players. He has been on our wish list to bring him to the Netherlands for some time and we are happy that we have succeeded.

At the moment, we have not yet received a description from him, but we have asked him to challenge advanced players.

Level of playing

This workshop is intended for (very) advanced players. Participants have several years of playing experience, they have followed several advanced courses. Learning a melody or dissociating the stroke hand and the melody hand is not a problem. Participants fully master cranking the gurdy up to the four-beat and can also apply them irregularly.
In comparison with our Saturday course: this level is not taught in Zeist.
The workshop is given in English.

About Benoit Roblin

Benoît Roblin grew up with the hurdy-gurdy in Vierzon, in the Berry region of France. Trained by Laurent Bitaud and then Alexis Vacher, Benoît obtained his degree in traditional music in 2008, before embarking on a professional adventure.

Benoît Roblin has developed his own style of playing, drawing inspiration from various hurdy-gurdy players and working on energy and groove. He has always put traditional dance music at the centre of his instrumental practice, mainly from the Berry region with Décibal, Le gros trio, the Hervé duo and now as a soloist, as well as the Poitou region with Son de bouc, the Roblin-Pacher duo, the Jagueneau-Roblin duo and La Bachule, Brittany and the Vendée with the Roblin-Evain-Badeau trio, and Gascony with Nòu.

Listen to Benoît Roblin: