Zan Berry (US) will lead an inspirational, improvisational workshop open to all young instrumentalists. Creative Ability Development (CAD) is a teaching practice that engages beginning to advanced string students through incorporating a sequence of improvisation exercises. Focusing a student’s musical development on creative growth, CAD can help students achieve greater technical freedom on their instruments and allow students to make musical study more relevant to personal growth. The young musicians will have the opportunity to show off some of the improvisation games from the workshop and will present a 5-minute improvisation-based work that will be designed during the CAD workshop.