Programs for Middle School Students
- Middle School Band Adventure
Priscilla Todd Brown, director; Mary Robey, assistant - Middle School Instrumental Jazz
Howard Potter, Paul Hofmann, Bill Tiberio, directors - Eastman Children’s Choir Camp
Karie Schroer Templeton, director
Middle School Band Adventure
Priscilla Todd Brown, director;
Mary Robey, assistant
June 30–July 10 / Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-noon
This eight-day camp is for students entering grades 7–9 who have a great desire to further their performing and musical learning. Activities will include full band rehearsals and a final concert, sectional rehearsals, master classes, and activities aimed at broadening performance techniques, ensemble skills, sight-reading and comprehensive musical skills, and musical horizons. Priscilla Todd Brown is director of the instrumental program at East High School (Rochester), and has appeared as a performer with the Rochester Philharmonic and with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Tanglewood. Other faculty members will include Community Music School faculty, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra members, and special guests.
Concert: Thursday, July 10 at 10 a.m. in Kilbourn Hall
Tuition:
$295 / $221.25 for students enrolled in ECMS private lessons both semesters of current school year. (no housing available) CRN 12037
Middle School Instrumental Jazz
Howard Potter, Paul Hofmann, Bill Tiberio, directors
July 28 — August 7/Monday–Thursday, 9 a.m.–noon
This half-day, two-week program is designed for middle school students entering grades 7–9 who have a serious interest in jazz improvisation and learning the fundamentals of the jazz language. The class is performance-oriented, with an emphasis on studying chords, scales, rhythms, as well as ear training and the development of coherent musical phrases and ideas. The class will also explore jazz history through discussions and listening. Jazz standards, blues, transcriptions, and Latin idioms will be the media for the class.
Concert: Thursday, August 7 at 11 a.m. in A902
Tuition:
$295 / 221.25 for students enrolled in ECMS private lessons both semesters of current school year. (no housing available) CRN 11964
Eastman Children’s Choir Camp
Karie Schroer Templeton, director
August 4-8/Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–noon
A full week of singing and fun for students entering grades 3–8! All young singers are invited to join us for a week of learning group vocal technique, proper performance etiquette, great children’s choral literature, and for the opportunity to perform together in a concert for friends and family.
Concert: Friday, August 8 at 11 a.m. in Main Hall
Tuition: $150 (no housing available) CRN 11970