Eric Barnhill

Eric Barnhill

The source of my creative, educational and therapeutic work. At its core, a somatic discipline developing the human body as musical instrument. I apply Dalcroze Eurhythmics to music education and training, from young children to professional performing artists. My activities include teaching, curriculum and assessment design, conference presentations and workshops, and teacher training.

My adaptation of Dalcroze to special needs and high-risk populations. Games of rhythmic, interactional, improvisational movement that develop new behaviors in children with self-regulation and self-organization difficulties. These new behavior options are then applied to specific problems and situations in the student’s life. I work frequently with attention & impulse control, reading and math difficulties, and certain spectrum disorders.

I’m one of many faces in the “improvisation revival” in classical music. My most public project is my blog The Daily Improvisation. Over 500 improvisations have been published there, some with over 10,000 listens.