Welcome to the On-line Summer
Study Guide
Notes on Using the Listings
Welcome
This on-line resource will help
you discover more than 200 camps and workshops where you can study
music or instrument building this summer. The locations range from
Illinois to Israel, and the workshops focus on everything from bluegrass
to classical to jazz. If you have yet to devote a summer vacation
to music, some of the special programs planned for 2001 might finally
get you out of the house and into the classroom.
Maybe you can play beautifully in the privacy of your
home but have trouble keeping it together in ensembles with other
instruments. If so, you’re an excellent candidate for the unique program
offered by Summertrios in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Amateur workshop
participants are grouped together with professional players, an amazing
opportunity that improves their skills by leaps and bounds. If you’ve
ever played tennis with a partner who was much better than you, you
probably have a sense of what it means to play up to a professional
musician’s level. "There’s something exciting about watching amateurs
achieve like that," says festival organizer Lily Friedman.
If you’re already part of a professional ensemble and
the whole group needs work, the new ensemble residency program at
the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival in Putnam, Vermont, is the
place for you in 2001. The faculty will choose two preformed ensembles
to participate in a five-week season during which the players are
coached as a group and as individuals. Yellow Barn offers frequent
performance opportunities for all its participants, which gives students
a chance to practice what’s being preached and get direct feedback
from the masters in a supportive, noncompetitive atmosphere. Full-tuition
scholarships are granted to all students accepted, which just leaves
room and board fees. Some of the new faculty for this summer include
violinists Curtis Macomber and Donald Weilerstein and cellists Joel
Krosnick and Natasha Brofsky.
Perhaps you’d like to get away from it all while you
study music in the mountains of Quebec’s Charlevoix region. The Domaine
Forget Music and Dance Academy will offer its usual mix of jazz, classical,
contemporary, and early music under the direction of some excellent
new instructors. Steven Dan, Roberto Diaz, François Paradis,
and Douglas McNabney will be teaching viola this summer. Jean-Jacques
Kantorow, Andres Cardenas, Regis Proquier, and Martin Chalifour will
be added to the violin faculty, and Desmond Hoebig and Philippe Muller
will round out the cello faculty.
For an even more exotic trip, you can pack up your instrument
and study in the Southern Hemisphere. This year the International
String Workshop, which moves to a different city each summer, will
be held in Brisbane, Australia, July 2–15. Classes will take place
in the newly built Conservatorium of Music on the south bank of the
Brisbane River. New faculty will include Brett Dean, concertmaster
of the Brisbane Philharmonic; Elizabeth Morgan; the Australian String
Quartet; the Griffith Trio; and renowned Dalcroze expert Karin Greenhead,
who will conduct special sessions for soloists and conductors.
Another change takes place at the Violin and Bow Maker’s
Summer Institute at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. Those
interested in studying bow making will be able to choose among four
one-week sessions this summer or combine two or more weeks to create
a program that suits their needs. The violin players’ workshops will
remain the same as in years past, with the addition of Thurmond Knight
to the faculty.
These are just a few of the new opportunities to combine
fun and learning this summer. For much more, just click on the navigation
buttons to search for programs by region or style, or browse through
the detailed alphabetical listings. Imagine a week or two away from
the monotony of "real life," giving you a unique opportunity to focus
on your music—and improve your technique and your attitude for the
rest of the year!
Using
the Listings
The summer-study programs are listed in three ways:
1. First, by location; within the United States, programs
are divided among major regions (Midwest, South, etc.). Names and
locations are listed here. For more detailed information, see the
alphabetical listings.
2. The next listing organizes the programs by musical
genre or study type. Only the program names are listed here under
each heading (Classical, Jazz, Folk, etc.). For detailed information,
go to the alphabetical listings.
3. The final list presents the programs alphabetically,
and includes locations and dates for 2001, fees, application requirements,
a description of the program and facilities, faculty names, plus contact
information with active hyperlinks to program Web sites, e-mail, and
so forth. The substantial listings are broken into five lists, A–B,
C–G, H–L, M–R, and S–Z. Handy navigation links
are provided on the top and bottom of each page.
Abbreviations include AF for application fee
(sometimes a deposit against tuition fees), R&B for room
and board, and TBA for to be announced. Enrollment size is
indicated in parentheses (100).
