Summer at Eastman

Tentative Summer Session 2010  June 28 - August 6
Offerings & Tentative courses and dates as of 10/19/09

Please continue to watch this website for many updates, many additional courses titles and full course descriptions.
Note that all listings are subject to change until final posting in early January.
Application forms will be posted for downloading in January.

View Summer Session 2009 website

Courses for collegiate students, teachers and professionals

Collegiate Courses are offered in applied music, music composition, English as a second language, music education, music history, music technology and music theory.  Note that most courses are for graduate level students and carry full academic credit. Most students who take these courses are previously matriculated at the Eastman School of Music or “summers only graduate students” in music education. Eastman is pleased to consider applications from students attending other institutions and professionals in music by offering them admission via “special student status”, subject to space, in the particular class requested.

Collegiate Course Listing:

Applied Music
June 28- August 6
Faculty as available
Private lessons

Composition
June 28- August 6
Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon
Courses for majors and non-majors

English as a Second Language
Caterina Falli
June 27 -August 6
Remedial English class required of provisional International students, both graduate and undergraduate. International students who are musicians, but not matriculating at Eastman may be accepted.

Music History

MHS 119 Music History in Review
June 28-August 6/Monday, Wednesday, Friday  6-8 p.m.
(Offered as a class if 3 or more students-as a tutorial if less than 3)

MHS 590 - Russian Romanticism in Poetry and Music
(from the Golden Age to the Silver)
Truman Bullard
June 30-August 6/ Wednesday, Friday, 9:15-11:45 a.m.

MHS 590 - The Symphony from 1800-1900
Jurgen Thym
June 29-August 5/Tuesday, Thursday, 2-4:30 PM

MHS 590 - TBA

MHS 424 - Music in the Classic Period
Gretchen Wheelock
June 28-August 4/ Monday and Wednesday 2-4:30

Music Theory

TH 117 - Review Dictation
Instructor TBA
June 28-August 6 / Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
(Offered as a class if 3 or more students-as a tutorial if less than 3)

TH 118 - Review Analysis
Steven Laitz
June 30-August 6 /Tuesday, Thursday, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
(Offered as a class if 3 or more students-as a tutorial if less than 3)

TH 400 - Survey of Analytical Techniques
Bruce Frank
June 28-August 6, M,W,F 11:30-1:30

TH 421/521 Pedagogy of Music Theory
Steve Laitz
June 30-August 6/Tuesday, Thursday, 2-4:30 PM

TH 481A Website Construction I
Noah Lapidus
June 29-July 9/Tuesday - Friday  8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

TH 481A Website Construction II
Noah Lapidus
July 13-July 23/ Tuesday - Friday, 8:30-10:30 a.m.

Music Education

MUE 402/INS422 - Measurement and Evaluation
Richard Grunow
June 28-July 16/Monday-Friday/ 1:30-4:30 p.m.

MUE 403 - Introduction to Research
Donna Brink Fox
June 28-July 28/Monday-Friday, 8:30-11:30

MUE 465/INS423 -   Instrumental Techniques
Christopher Azzara
July 19-July 30/Monday-Friday, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Independent Studies

Independent Studies available in academic and applied areas
Faculty member/mentor must sign the proposal
Proposals in writing for consideration are due by May 1

Summer Institutes are offered in many unique areas: choral and vocal music, music education, music theory, viola, trumpet, trombone, organ, percussion, mbira and South Indian Percussion, library sciences, Orff Schulwerk, music technology, jazz guitar etc. (** Note:  pre-collegiate students who are juniors and seniors in high school, may also apply and MAY be accepted into some of the courses listed in the Collegiate Institute Listing.)

Institute Course Listing:

Viola Institute
with George Taylor and Katie Dey
June 27-July 4
5 full days

Website Construction
with Noah Lapidus
Website I
June 29-July 9, T-F  8:30-10:30a.m.
Website II           
July 13-23, T-F  8:30-11:30 a.m.

Percussion Institute
with Michael Burritt
Date TBA

Summer Conducting Institute
with Neil Varon and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Mid July-date TBA

New conducting program “Basics of Conducting”
with Neil Varon
Begins before the SCI above and includes engagement in SCI as program auditors

Plays Well with Others
with Alexandra Nguyen and Jean Barr
June-early July TBA

Choral Conducting Institutes:

Eastman Choral Institute
INS 404 Focus: Mendelssohn's Elijah
July 12-16
Full day
With Robert Page and William Weinert

Eastman Choral Institute
INS 427 Artistry, Vocal Pedagogy, Musicianship
July 19-23
With William Weinert, Susan Conkling, Robert McIver and Gregory Ristow

Introduction to the Dalcroze Method
July 19-23
Monday-Friday, 8:30-11:30 AM
With Gregory Ristow

World Music Institutes:

Mbira with Glenn West
July 12-16
Beginning Level - 9:00-12:00
Intermediate - 1:30-4:30

South Indian Percussion with Rohan Krishnamurthy
July 12-16
Intermediate - 9:00-12:00
Beginning Level - 1:30-4:30

Summer Mountain Dulcimer Workshop
with Mitzie Collins
July 12-16, 6:00-10:00 PM

Orff-Schulwerk Institute
Levels I and III, M-F, 8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
July 19-30           

Trombone Institute
with Mark Kellogg
August 1-5 tentative dates

Music Preservation Workshop
with Alice Carli
August 2-6

Courses for pre-collegiate students and adults

Eastman Community Music School courses are noncredit. Programs are designed to challenge students, to build skills in career-track high school students, and to nurture the musical abilities of devoted adult amateurs.
Housing and meals for both programs are available in the Student Living Center.

HIGH SCHOOL – Students currently in grades 9-12

High School Jazz Studies
Jeff Campbell/Harold Danko, directors
Dates: June 27-July 9
Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., plus evening concerts, jam sessions and activities
Serious jazz high school students-Full schedule posted later
Big band/combo/theory/history/improv/masterclasses
Audition tape required
Participant Concerts in Kilbourn Hall:
July 8 combos at 3:00 p.m.
July 9 big bands at 3:00 p.m.

Music Horizons Program           
Ruth Cahn, director
Dates:  July 10-July 30
Hours: 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m., plus evening concerts, Saturdays 9 a.m.-Noon
Students seriously considering a career in music-Full schedule later
Solo performance/2 lessons per week/theory/history/career seminar
Audition tape required
Participants Concerts in Kilbourn Hall:
July 29 chamber ensembles (afternoon and evening)
July 30 vocal ensemble at 10 a.m.
July 30 solo recital at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Eastman Young Artists Piano Competition July 31-August 7
Director, Doug Humpherys- please see their website for details

Middle School

World Music Experience
with Julie Beauregard
August 2-6
Monday-Friday 1-5 PM

Eastman Children's Choir
August 2-6
Monday-Friday 9-12

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