THE CORPORATE GROOVE

Creative Seminar with Jon Sass

Corporate teams are invited to participate in an exclusive and unforgettable seminar with one of the world's most innovative and versatile brass playing personalities -- Tuba Soloist JON SASS. This 2 day seminar welcomes up to 8 corporate members to participate in an experience that provides a unique perspective on creativity, bringing to light an effective understanding for successful teamwork related objectives.

Corporate Groove - The Experience

• Set the pace for your company groove with insights gained for a new self-awareness, serving as a profound tool to mentor and evaluate company members following mergers and for intercultural diversity.
• Experience informative and interactive demonstrations showing how Jon`s unique world experience provides a clear metaphor how creativity can be applied when, working with limitations, and provide a basis for activating communicative and inventive skills.
• Welcome to the understanding where jamming, improvisation and other playing practices provide insight into improving group motivation and cooperation with the knowledge to help integrate and strengthen weaker members by inspiring the responsibility for growth!
• Take part in the creation of a remarkable group experience throughout the process, with specific musical instruments to see, hear and feel how individual contributions apply for achieving successful team behavior.
• No musical experience or knowledge is necessary for participation.
• The best way to profit from this seminar is in a relaxed and comfortable environment free of the everyday stress. Releasing physical and mental tension with relaxation massage helps participants to act more freely and release the creative energy.

Corporate Groove - Individual Advantages

• Receive a profound and inspirational understanding about yourself
• Learn to be more creative and taking risks
• Improve your listening and communicative skills
• Stress reduction
• Realize the power of group creativity rather than the drive for individual recognition

Corporate Groove - Group Advantages

• A unique perspective on the value of individual contribution in a group context
• Feeling of unity and synchronicity with co-workers
• Experiencing cooperation and acceptance versus competition and judgment
• This experience transcends the typical daily corporate communication
• Leadership team more robust and able to deal with a rapidly changing global environment

Corporate Groove - The Process

• CREATIVE IMPULSE - A successful groove begins with the implementation of the understanding that the source for enhancing our creative abilities lies within us. Gain insight how to minimize limitations and inspire a creative circle within your company as well as individual lives.
  
• CREATIVE CENTER - One of Jon's unique abilities is to perform and function successfully with a wide spectrum of genres and environments. Jon will present informative and interactive demonstrations showing how creative communication and self awareness skills used in his career, acts as a metaphor providing a basis for maintaining a successful network of team related and individual activities, intercultural diversity and working with limitations.
  
• CREATIVE GROUP - Jon will discuss with visual and interactive demonstrations how the THE TUBA QUARTET provides a clear model showing how creativity can be applied to the needs of your company team. Developing a basis for effective communication is paramount for success with disciplines such as rehearsal techniques, improvisation and for the goal of presenting successful creative performances. One of the most important aspects of playing together is creating an atmosphere of trust, integrity and without energy-consuming judgment ... this social characteristic is what artists often refer to as a good " vibe". The term "vibe" can be compared to the emotional base of your company. Corporate culture can also be called a groove -- way of doing things. Every company has its own groove!
  
• EXTENSION OF THE CIRCLE - THE CORPORATE GROOVE - Participants will now take center stage to recognize and improve the groove of their company with the objective to Motivate, Engage, Create and Implement the skills imparted. The corporate groove is not only the vibe you present to your investors, stakeholders but as well to your customers. It is a metaphor for the individual musician <> the group <> and for the group and audience. Jon will guide your team with interactive demonstrations using improvisation, call and response and jamming ... which is similar to having a good conversation around a theme. CEOs now prepare for their gig which begins the next working day to start a new company groove!
  
  There is the option available to have a solo performance planned after the seminar. Jon's Tuba Quartet can as well be made available for a seminar performance.

Corporate Groove - Voices  

>>>>> "This was a seminar that is unprecedented in my experience. The energy and knowledge that Sass brings to the project are unparalleled and his deep humanity connected immediately with all participants. He made people feel respected, valued and empowered to greater creativity. It was HOT! By the reaction of the participants, you could tell that he hit a chord with most of them. This was an amazing event - special beyond belief!" Prof. J. Funderburk, Univ. Northern Iowa
>>>>> "Jon Sass reveals the modernistic trivial appearances of today with an almost shamanistic way of seeing things. His instrument is the extension of his soul. The point where the sophistication of technology has come to an end is where Jon Sass begins." Christian Kolonovits, prominent Austrian Producer

About your Host Jon Sass  

Jon Sass was born in 1961 under the name, Jonathan McClain Sass in New York City. As a widely celebrated tubist, Jon is widely recognized today as a true GROOVE MASTER and a uniquely versatile tubist. With a sanguine personality Jon, is at home with Classical music, Jazz and many other genres. With his truly unique and soulfully penetrating sound, Jon's career has made a tremendous impact on the "Brass World " as well as , Jazz and Classical scenes throughout Europe. His first highly acclaimed solo CD Sassified which blends jazz, classical and R&B vocabularies, has positioned him as arguably the most creative artist playing tuba, living today! Since 1985 Jon has received playing opportunities from the creme de la creme of musicians from recordings with world hit producer Peter Wolf to chamber ensembles with Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic musicians, from Europe, Asia to North & South America. He has progressively developed his solo voice on the tuba which is heard on over 70 recordings. Jon is commonly heard and seen as performing artist who composes the music and develops his own concepts. Many of his compositions appear on many different CDs. He has worked as a producer and has arranged music for the James Brown Horns. Jon presents a broad range of workshops and has written articles and books.


• "Jon Sass has been called the tuba's answer to Miles Davis and his music here sizzles." (Octavio Rocca)
• "Sass could revolutionize the tuba."(Edmonton Sun, Canada)
• "Jonathan McClain Sass, a virtuoso tuba player from Harlem who now lives in Vienna, defied the reputation of unwieldy instrument by playing exquisite trills that fluttered off into silence."(The New York Times)
• "Jon Sass brings the tuba to places where it's never been before" (Wavelength, New Orleans)
• The New York born Jon Sass radiates positive vibrations alone by his presence and conveys the best of moods with his huge instrument: a singing and grooving tuba, a brass-Jumbo becoming a gazelle. (Saarbrückner Zeitung, D)