Festival participants work closely with the faculty, who spend many hours coaching small ensembles, private lessons, and master classes. In addition, the faculty teach sessions that are particularly valuable for pre-professional students, including courses that discuss strategies for practice, improvisation, and how to perform and relate to colleagues in chamber ensembles and orchestra. Mock auditions[…]
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To present an annual festival of diverse music, opera and dance performed by outstanding artists, to inspire a greater appreciation of these art forms, and to help develop the performers of tomorrow. crestedbuttemusicfestival.com
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Applicants to the composition program are strongly encouraged to attend the full six-week program. Preference may be given to six-week applicants. The Bowdoin International Music Festival’s composition program gives participants access to distinguished composers while affording each participant time to compose in a relaxed environment. The resident composers for 2012 are Derek Bermel (session 1)[…]
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In 1999, the National Arts Centre’s Music Director Pinchas Zukerman founded the Young Artists Programme (YAP) with just 10 students. Over the years, the programme has grown to include the Conductors Programme (CP) directed by Maestro Kenneth Kiesler and the Composers Programme (CMP) directed by NAC Award Composer, Gary Kulesha. Together, they make up what[…]
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The CASMI International Summer Program was conceived as an intensive study in composition in Prague, a city of unique musical history and architectural beauty. During their stay in Prague, the participants are encouraged to compose a piece, review their compositions, and discuss various aspects of the creative compositional process. Admission is open to persons currently[…]
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Founded in 1964 by Artistic Director Lewis Kaplan and the late Robert K. Beckwith, the Bowdoin International Music Festival comprises seven concert series, intensive summer study, and service to the Midcoast Maine community. The Festival takes place for six weeks each summer on the Bowdoin College campus and throughout the Brunswick, Maine area. It is[…]
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Looking to improve on your music or performance skills? Wondering what it would be like to be in the recording studio, act, dance or compose music ? Want to meet new friends and get a feel for what it would be like to be on a college campus? Experience all this and more as part[…]
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The workshops are six-day intensive laboratories for violinists, clarinetists, oboists, bassoonists, and horn players who are students, serious amateurs or professionals. Activities include private coaching, private practicing, complimentary communal lunches, informal performance in master classes, lecture demonstrations, open rehearsals of the instructors’ concerts, and participants’ concerts at each week’s ends. The three instructors are principal[…]
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Brevard Music Center is, at once, a place, a summer institute, and a festival. The Music Center is situated on a wooded 180-acre campus in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. Founded in 1936, the Music Center has matured into one of this country’s premier summer training programs and festivals. More than[…]
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The Performance Program is designed to create a rich musical experience in solo and chamber music for sixty-five string players and pianists from the US and the rest of the world, ranging in age from teenagers to young adults. There is ample time for individual practice, lessons and ensemble coachings, encouraging growth both technically and[…]
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