- Summer Connection: Design your own summer camp!
- Six Advanced Jazz Improvisation Workshops
- Introduction to Jazz History
- ECMS Harp Workshop
- African Drumming
- High School Electronic Music
- Young Performers Chamber Music Program
- Mbira Institute
- South Indian Percussion
Summer Connection for High School students
DESIGN A FULL-DAY SUMMER CAMP WITH SUMMER CONNECTION!
(Options for all musical abilities)
July 23-27, 2012
This collaborative program allows students to design their own personalized schedules based on their unique academic interests and musical talents. Students attend a Rochester Scholars course on the University’s River Campus and eat lunch in a campus dining hall, then ride a shuttle to the Eastman School for their afternoon class (or vice versa).
Sample classes at the University of Rochester Campus:
- What’s up Doc? Exploring the Pre-Med Experience
- Rochester CSI
- Picture This: Tell a Story in Photographs
- Argument and Debate: How to Argue and Win!
- Popular Astronomy: Black Holes, Aliens, and Exoplanets
- Understanding Animal Behavior
Sample classes at the Eastman School of Music:
- High School Wind Ensemble Workshop
- High School Electronic Music
- African Drumming
Six Advanced Jazz Improvisation Workshops (Advanced Middle, High School and Adult students)
June 25 – 30/Monday – Saturday, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
Room: ESM 120
Clay Jenkins, Dariusz Terefenko, instructors
Each afternoon during the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, members of the Eastman Jazz faculty will present an advanced topic in jazz improvisation applicable to all instruments. Each session will include hand-outs, demonstrations and an opportunity for students to perform. Students are encouraged to bring their instruments. The six workshops are:
- “Always Play the Blues” – Clay Jenkins
- “Modern Harmonic Substitutions” – Dariusz Terefenko
- “Expanding Your Musicality in Improvisation” – Clay Jenkins
- “Playing In & Out of the Changes” – Dariusz Terefenko
- “Working Toward Depth of Groove” – Clay Jenkins
- “Exploring Meter in Jazz Standards” – Dariusz Terefenko
Tuition:
$150
Housing in the Student Living Center (Eastman Dorm, no air conditioning) and meals are available for those over age 14 at $68/day.
Introduction to Jazz History
INS 420
Introduction to Jazz History
June 25-30/Monday – Saturday, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Room: Hatch Recital Hall
Paul Hofmann
Offered during the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival
Each of the six days will highlight (in chronological/historical order) a particular style/era of jazz, including some of the major personalities and works:
- Day One: Early New Orleans Jazz, including the Jazz Age (1920s); Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, et al.
- Day Two: The Swing Era (1930s), including Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Art Tatum, et al.
- Day Three: Modern Jazz. part one (1940s and early 1950s), including Bebop (Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell) and other schools which were offshoots from that (Lennie Tristano, Dave Brubeck, Bill Evans, et al.)
- Day Four: Modern Jazz, part two (mid-1950s through late 1960s), including Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Jackie McLean, Charles Mingus
- Day Five: Jazz since 1970, including Chamber Jazz (especially the West German record label ECM), Jazz-Rock( Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Pat Methany Group) and the resurgence of Hard Bop (Winton Marsalis)
- Day Six: Week’s wrap up & jazz piano performance
No prior knowledge of jazz needed, just a general love of music. No materials required.
Tuition:
$200/noncredit CRN 15928
Eastman Community Music School Harp Workshop
July 16-20/Monday-Friday, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Room: MSH One
Nan Gullo Richmond, director
This workshop for beginning and intermediate level harpists (high school to adult) provides individual and ensemble instruction, music theory, and orchestral repertory classes for pedal and lever harpists. Students must bring their own harps. Highlights include concerts and other performance opportunities with Eastman School faculty and guest artists.
Concert: Friday, July 20 at Noon in Kilbourn Hall
Tuition:
$220 (no housing available) CRN 12207
10% discount for ECMS students enrolled both semesters
African Drumming for High School Students
July 23-27/Monday-Friday,
Morning Section: 9:00 am – Noon, OR
Afternoon Section: 1:15 – 4:15 p.m.
Room: ET 12 (Gamelan Room)
Fana Bangoura, director
A long-time member of Les Ballets Africains and Percussion of Guinea, instructor Fana Bangoura, of the National Ensemble of Guinea, will introduce students to the dynamic drumming traditions of Guinea, including the rhythms of the Susu, Malinke, and Baga language groups. Fana will introduce students to rhythms and techniques for a variety of instruments in the workshop, including Dunun, Sangban, and Kenkeni as well as solo and accompaniment parts for the Djembe. We will also discuss the origins and cultural significance of each rhythm.
Concerts: Morning Section – Friday, July 27 at 11 a.m. in ESM 120
Afternoon Section – Friday, July 27 at 3:30 p.m. in ESM 120
Tuition:
$250 per section
- Morning Section: CRN 19441
- Afternoon Section: CRN 19768
10% discount for ECMS students enrolled both semesters
High School Electronic Music
July 23–27/Monday–Friday,
Morning Section: 9 a.m. – Noon OR
Afternoon Section: 1:15 – 4:15 p.m.
Location: ESM 070
Instructor: TBA
This one-week course will provide insight into the diverse world of electronic music with an emphasis on basic audio technology and software. Students will learn to record, edit, and produce CDs of their own performances which can be used for auditions, scholarship application, and general promotion. Students will become familiar with various types of audio hardware including microphones, mixing boards and MIDI controllers; as well as software including Audacity, Cubase, and a basic introduction to computer music notation (Sibelius). No prior knowledge of recording or programming is needed to be successful in this course, though basic computer skills are encouraged.
The scope of this class will be beyond any one software application, musical trend, or audio technology. Rather, the course will be an introduction to a wide variety of applications in computer music, which will hopefully equip students with resources for successful implementation of music technology in their own careers. Limited enrollment.
Tuition:
$250 per section (no housing available)
- Morning section: CRN 12183
- Afternoon section: CRN 19742
10% discount for ECMS students enrolled both semesters
Introduction to the Shona Mbira
July 9 – 13/Monday – Friday, 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Room: ET 412
Glenn West, director
This workshop will introduce students to the basic playing techniques of the mbira dzavadzimu. The complex and sophisticated melodic and rhythmic nature of this music will be explored through performance of two traditional songs, Kariga Mombe and Nhemamusasa. Essential aspects of the music that will be learned and applied include the interlocking of different parts, traditional singing practices, rhythmic accompaniment, and the social and cultural context of the music. Students will also be guided to understand the music from the traditional Shona point of view as well as integrating it with their own musical understanding. No previous experience with the mbira or any other musical instrument is necessary. Instruments will be provided. Any questions regarding the instrument or the content of the workshop should be directed to Glenn West at: gwest@esm.rochester.edu
Final Presentation/Demonstration: Friday, July 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Ciminellli Formal Lounge
Tuition:
$390/noncredit CRN 16235
Individual lessons are available for advanced students through the Eastman Community Music School. For more information, click here or call (585)274-1400.
MORE ABOUT SHONA MBIRA
Native to the Shona culture of Zimbabwe, the mbira dzavadzimu (literally, “the mbira of the ancestral spirits”) is a diatonic instrument with 22 to 28 metal keys (lamellae) fixed to a wooden soundboard, which is then wedged to a gourd resonator, used to amplify its resonance. Rattling pieces of metal, bottle caps or shells are attached to the instrument, which in turn produce buzzing sounds when the keys are plucked. The interaction of two or more players, singers, hosho (gourd rattles), and sometimes drummers and rhythmic hand clapping creates a complex and sophisticated musical fabric that requires a shift in musical perspective of the listener and performer. Inextricably tied to traditional Shona spiritual beliefs and cultural practices, the mbira and its repertory predate the arrival of European explorers in the 16th-century. Some of the traditional songs are said to date back over 1,000 years. The sophistication of the instrument and the music, however, has also led to their adoption and adaptation by contemporary musicians in Africa, Asia and the West.
South Indian Percussion
Beginner Level/Introduction Course
July 9 – 13/Monday – Friday, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Room: Gamelan Room, ET 12
Rohan Krishnamurthy, director
An exciting, weeklong course in South Indian percussion for teachers, collegiate and high school students, and community members. The institute will provide an overview of Carnatic music, an ancient form of classical music from South India, and will explore techniques and approaches of the Carnatic percussive tradition, considered one of the world’s most complex. Participants will get hands-on experience playing several traditional instruments, including the pitched mridangam, the primary drum of South India, as well as other secondary hand drums including the khanjira frame drum, ghatam clay pot, and konakkol, a unique system of vocal percussion. The program will culminate in a group performance. This institute is not only an opportunity to learn about the music of India, but also an avenue to engage music as a means of understanding and appreciating various aspects of Indian culture at large. It will employ a variety of learning tools and approaches, and will not require any prior musical background.
Final Presentation/Demonstration: Friday, July 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Ciminelli Formal Lounge
Tuition:
$390/noncredit CRN 16073
Individual lessons are available for advanced students through the Eastman Community Music School. See www.esm.rochester.edu/community for information and registration form.
South Indian Percussion
Intermediate Level
July 9 – 13/Monday – Friday, 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Room: Gamelan Room , ET 12
Rohan Krishnamurthy, director
The second course in the South Indian Percussion institute sequence, students will delve deeper into the practical and theoretical nuances of Carnatic music, an ancient form of classical music from South India. Intricate techniques and approaches of the Carnatic percussive traditions will be considered by way of hands-on training on several traditional instruments, including the pitched mridangam, the primary drum of South India, as well as other secondary hand drums including the khanjira frame drum, ghatam clay pot, and konakkol, a unique system of vocal percussion. Students will also explore the complex relationship between raga (melody) and tala (rhythm) in a performance context. This institute is not only an opportunity to learn about music of India, but also an avenue to engage music as a means of understanding and appreciating various aspects of Indian culture at large. It will employ a variety of learning tools and approaches. Prerequisites for this institute are the South Indian Percussion Introduction course or demonstration of moderate proficiency in South Indian percussion as evaluated by the instructor.
Final Presentation/Demonstration: Friday, July 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Ciminelli Formal Lounge
Tuition:
$390/noncredit CRN 16096
Individual lessons are available for advanced students through the Eastman Community Music School. See www.esm.rochester.edu/community for information and registration form.
