Today’s CreateLab class in Brooks Concert Hall hasn’t started yet, but already the space is buzzing.
Six musicians from the Grammy Award-winning Silkroad Ensemble — a musical collective founded by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma — mingle and warm up on stage, adjusting their instruments or making notes on sheet music. As students file in and settle into chairs, it’s hard to spot the team-taught course’s five professors spread out and seated among them, chatting.