2025 Workshop - Copper A - Bass Bells

When
June 06, 2025
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Location
Mohawk College

Registration

Cooper A Workshop - Bass Bells
The cost of this workshop is included with your festival registration.

Bass Bells

Playing low bass handbells requires special technique to avoid injury and still achieve musicality with ringing. The workshop will cover how to stand, picking up a bronze low bass bell with one or two hands, ringing ergonomically, and how to do various special articulations including pluck, martellato, tower-swing, echo, and lifts. We will also cover the difference of ringing low bass depending on your height and strength. The class will conclude with strength and stretching exercises.

Marie Clyatt-Larson

Marie began playing handbells at age five in church and taking percussion lessons at nine years old. Instantly drawn to the lower sounds, she was drawn to bass marimba, timpani and the biggest bells she could pick up.

Marie has directed numerous handbell ensembles, with members ranging from 4 years old to 95. In 2014, she was a co-clinician with David Harris at the Mo Ranch-PAM worship and Music conference. It was at that conference where she played "2s" for the first time, and was instantly in love. Marie has taught malleting classes at multiple national events for Handbell Musicians of America. In January of 2025 she was a guest instructor at the Hong Kong Handbell Academy, leading several workshops for children, youth, and adults, as well as working with the Academy’s top performing ensembles. Her private students include internationally known soloists Linda Krantz and Emily Li.

Marie rings with Queen City Bronze (primarily C2-G3) and a church handbell choir. This January, she was selected as one of 12 Foreign Guest Ringers to perform in the MOB-18 Handbell Concert in Singapore, where she played in the low bass. She also presented handbell duets with Emily Li at a concert in Macau. As a co-creator of MarimBell, a unique marimba and handbell duet, she will debut with two concerts this summer in Kansas. In addition to her performance engagements, Marie maintains a private studio of percussion students and regularly plays marimba in church services.

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