Summer Workshop
Pre-College Workshops for ages 11-18.
Registration Form
- Based on student current knowledge and performance level, these workshops concentrate on:
- Sight-Reading Skills for Strings / Winds / Pianists Atwell/Boothby/Bush
- Introductory Ear Training (seeing/hearing/playing on pitch) (Hawkins)
- Introductory Theory (the Language of Music) (tba)
- Keyboard Harmony for String Players (David)
- Advanced Dalcroze Eurhythmics (Rhythm) (tba)
- Performance Protocol (Bush or tba)
- Audition Preparation ** (Center)
- Orchestral Excerpts ** (Center)
- Improvisation (Hawkins)
- Accompaniment/Collaboration ** (David or tba)
- Composition (Beginning/Intermediate/Advanced) ** (Flesher)
- Ensemble includes piano, strings, winds. (Coaches)
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Prep students who plan to audition at major U.S. music colleges and conservatories
will need top sight reading, ear training, rhythm, and ensemble performance levels for their auditions, in addition to high level solo works. Most top schools now include sight reading, and ensemble components in their auditions, in an effort to select only the best prepared young artists from international candidates.
Annual (30 weekly sessions) include comprehensive classes from Sept-May and regular public performance. This summer session gives a jump start and a 'taste' of future pre-college development that helps prepare for successful auditions, and for a very rewarding future in music whether as a vocation or an avocation. Be the best you can be!
We look forward to helping you achieve your goals!.
