Summer Chamber Music Academy
Eugene Kaminsky, Director
July 21-Aug 1, 2008
Final Showcase Concert: Friday Aug 1 at 11 am
Experience the excitement and intimacy of chamber music, joint performances, and accompanying and collaborating with other instruments. Perform in ensembles formed out of string instruments, instrumentalists/vocalists, piano/harpsichord and strings, piano and woodwinds, piano four-hands, two pianos…
Summer Chamber Music Academy 2008 musicians will expand their musical experience and enjoy days filled with:
Chamber Music Sessions
- Work on assigned chamber music pieces with faculty coaches.
- Individual coaching sessions
- Participate in joint student/faculty recitals.
- Learn how to accompany and how to collaborate in playing with partners.
- Observe as other students perform chamber music and learn from their instruction.
- Absorb new ideas from instructors other than your regular private lesson teacher.
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Music and Related Arts Sessions |
New for Summer Chamber Music Academy:
- A trip to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts to visit the exhibition of musical instruments - famous Museum's holdings from 1917. This collection contains numerous fine European instruments, as well as many Chinese, Japanese, African, Middle Eastern, and Native American examples.
- Baroque music performed with harpsichord - new and exciting opportunity for pianists and instrumentalists to experience the authentic sound of seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by using the harpsichords in the Conservatory possession. Duos, Trio-Sonatas, etc.
- Lunchtime movies and discussions: e.g. Glenn Gould, The Great Pianists, The Great Violinists by Bruno Monsaintgeon.
- Jazz workshop: John Kramer, presenter. Learn the basics of jazz, syncopated rhythm, swing, etc., turn your favorite tune into jazzy improvisation, and learn to play it in an ensemble. Make a surprising discovery that there are strict guidelines to the realm that often seems to be free of rules.
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Good old things in a new perspective:
- Talent Show: Share your non-musical hobbies and talents through short presentation.
- Music and poetry: Debra Zildjian, Ph. D., presenter. Shakesongs! The age of Shakespeare was an age of song, and Shakespeare certainly appreciated the importance of music for his audience. Come speak the speech and perform in “consort” some of Shakespeare’s more “musical” scenes from Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, and The Tempest.
- Yoga for musicians: Lorna Jane Norris, presenter. Learn to defeat performance anxiety and stage fright with preparing the body for stress/relaxation. Making music, practicing or performing: a general body awareness class with a yoga bias. Concentrating on the relationships between breath and movement and posture issues specific to different instruments.
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Dedicated Faculty
A team of dedicated faculty members, who are committed to bringing out the best in each student musically, create an ideal student/teacher ratio.
The faculty includes:
Piano Department Instructors Eugene Kaminsky, Jane Viemeister, John Kramer
String Department Instructors Philip Rush, Connie Hagen
Bay Youth Symphony Conductors Candace Kniffen and Jim Vinci
Voice Instructor Lorna Jane Norris
Placement Auditions and Tuition
All new students and students who are changing instruments from last year are asked to audition for placement before the start of the program.
Auditions are: Duxbury: Sunday, June 8, 1 - 2 pm Hingham: Sunday, June 8, 3 - 4 pm.
Please call 781-749-7565, ext. 10 to reserve an audition time or to schedule an alternate audition date. Students are expected to prepare a piece which best demonstrates their level of ability.
Director Eugene Kaminsky can answer questions regarding the program on the day of the auditions.
Tuition: $595
