Mary AllyeB Purtle is an accomplished performer as well as a private instructor of all the woodwind instruments. She has had students win the Music Teachers National Association Competition at the South Carolina Junior & Senior level (flute and oboe), the Southern Division Junior level (flute) and had a Junior National Woodwind Finalist (flute). She[…]
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The Steans Music Institute is Ravinia’s summer conservatory, bringing together each summer talented young musicians from around the world to make music together under the supervision of an internationally renowned faculty. Through its three programs—jazz, piano and strings, and singers—young artists at the Steans Music Institute attend master classes given by musical luminaries, have daily[…]
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The Pine Mountain Music Festival (PMMF) was founded in Iron Mountain in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in 1991 by Laura Deming, a cellist and member of the orchestra of Lyric Opera of Chicago. She invited several colleagues from Chicago to present a week-long chamber music series, and the programming expanded to include opera by the second[…]
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Rocky Ridge Music Center, located in the heart of the Colorado Rockies, offers summer residential music camps for youths and adults. The mission of Rocky Ridge Music Center is to nurture the creative, musical, and personal development of youth and adults in an inspirational setting. Under the guidance of world-class faculty and guest artists, students[…]
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For over forty years the Rome Festival has offered artists from around the world the opportunity to study, perform, and live in the heart of the inspirational historic center of Rome. The artists perform in palace courtyards with the Rome Festival Orchestra, Opera, Ballet, Concert Chorus, and Chamber Music Ensembles. From their small hotels they[…]
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The Round Top Festival Institute offers six weeks (no absence is permitted) of intensive training for young talented musicians seeking a transition from conservatories and universities to a future professional career. Symphony orchestra, chamber orchestra, chamber music and solo repertoire are included in this concentrated 6-week program. The Round Top Festival Institute owns its campus[…]
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The Orford Academy Orchestra (OAO!) workshop was designed to meet an ever-growing need in the musical community: offering in-depth orchestral training to young musicians to prepare them for dealing with the competition inherent in the music community. This three-week orchestra workshop provides young musicians a comprehensive musical experience through a broad range of workshops, master[…]
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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 held in Sapporo, Japan. The PMF Academy, which focused on orchestral training program in recent years, offers a comprehensive curriculum to all participants for nearly four weeks[…]
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The PMF Conducting Academy aims to provide young conductors an opportunity for practical training and conducting PMF Orchestra under the guidance of the festival’s Artistic Director, Fabio Luisi. The program includes coaching sessions conducting with pianos, and rehearsals with the PMF Orchestra. Members will also have an opportunity to perform with the PMF Orchestra in[…]
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The Pierre Monteux School provides training and practical experience to enable conductors to competently handle any conducting situation, to help instrumentalists meet the many demands of orchestral playing, and offers an unrivaled opportunity to learn a large and varied repertoire over the course of its six-week program. The school’s reputation attracts musicians from across the[…]
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