Sunday, December 14, 2008

Prepare for Summer Festivals


Summer Festivals
 
1. Aspen Music Festival /Aspen, Colorado
www.aspenmusicfestival.com
The Aspen Experience begins with the opportunity to study classical music for nine weeks in a charming mountain town. Students apply to study privately with a particular artist-faculty member, but there are numerous educational opportunities beyond the one-on-one studio experience. Master classes, organized by instrument, are open to students in all disciplines and to the general public. Chamber groups are formed by audition and coached by our world-class artist-faculty and guest artists. Student competitions offer winners the opportunity to perform a featured solo with an orchestra.
 
3. Bowdoin Festival/ Brunswick, Maine
www.summermusic.org
Founded in 1964 by Robert K. Beckwith and Lewis Kaplan, the Bowdoin International Music Festival brings renowned classical musicians from around the world to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine each summer for six weeks of instruction and performance. More than 250 highly talented young performers of graduate, college, and high school levels further their artistic development through a concentrated program of instrumental study and composition with the Festival's outstanding artist faculty.
 
4. NYU Intensive String Quartet/New York, New York
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/strings/summer
Intensive String Quartet June 29 - July 18, 2009. Application deadline: March 15. Applications accepted after the deadline on a space available basis. This unique program in the art of String Quartet playing is offered to advanced high school and college students 15 years or older and young professionals. Through intensive preparation students will engage in an in-depth study of selected string quartet repertoire. Each group will learn an entire quartet and perform it during the NYU String Quartet Festival which is held at the end of the program. Students can take the chamber music workshop for undergraduate college credit.
 
5.Tanglewood Festival /Boston
www.bso.org (Click “Tanglewood” on the top of the home page)
The Tanglewood Music Center Fellowship Program offers an intensive schedule of study and performance for advanced instrumentalists, singers, conductors, and composers who have complete most of their formal training in music. The TMC provides tuition, room, and two meals a day at no charge to participants for their eight weeks of residency at the Tanglewood Music Center. The costs are underwritten by private donation, and most attendees receive named Fellowships that reflect the source of these donations; the TMC therefore refers to its participants as “Fellows.”
 
6. Yellowbarn /Putney, Vermont
www.yellowbarn.org
Yellow Barn is a chamber music professional training program and concert presenter founded in Putney, Vermont in 1969 by cellist, David Wells. Since 1998 the festival has flourished under the artistic leadership of Peabody Trio founding pianist Seth Knopp.
 
7. Marlboro/ Marlboro,Vermont
www.marlboromusic.org
Marlboro Music is acclaimed world-wide as an institution devoted to artistic excellence and to developing new musical leaders who illuminate all areas of music today. It is where the concept of having master artists play together with exceptional young professional musicians was born—initiating a dynamic new approach to learning. Under the Artistic Direction of celebrated pianists Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida, it is, perhaps, the only place where leading musicians can spend up to seven weeks exchanging ideas, and rehearsing in depth nearly 240 works each summer
 
8. Pacific Music Festival /Sapporo, Japam 
www.pmf.or.jp
The Pacific Music Festival (PMF), founded in 1990 by the premier, conductor, composer and educator of the 20th century, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), is an international educational music festival.
The PMF Academy, consisting of the Orchestral, Composition and String Quartet courses, offers a comprehensive curriculum to all participants for nearly four weeks in July.
The members of PMF Academy are selected through a very competitive audition process. These promising young musicians from around the world bring fresh interpretations to traditional repertoire, transcending national boundaries and languages.

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