Conducting:
Guided by master conductor and teacher, Mark Shapiro, you will learn to hear and experience music in a way immediately applicable to your conducting practice.
3-week Intensive: Score Study – Analysis & Keyboard Harmony
Composition:
Guided by composer Philip Lasser of The Juilliard School, students take Counterpoint and Keyboard Harmony each in week-long intensive immersions. With classes and workshops daily, you focus your attention entirely on one craft at a time. It’s boot-camp for Counterpoint and Harmony
3-week Intensive Counterpoint, Keyboard Harmony, Musicianship for composers, Composition Studios : Art Song/Chamber/ Piano
New for July 2021:
Variant 6 will workshop student choral pieces. The reading and critiques of each work will be recorded for the use by the composer.
Piano:
In July 2021, master pianist, teacher and composer, Emile Naoumoff, will direct and coach the Piano Program with an emphasis on French piano repertoire. We train you towards truly multi-layered horizontal hearing allowing you to engage totally in the piano performance experience.
Knowing your relationship to the piano, its sonority, and voicing you develop a deep understanding of the harmonic importance of inner voices .We study how to listen to and sing all the contrapuntal lines in a piece.
3-week Intensive Counterpoint or Keyboard Harmony
Private Piano Lessons (3 , 45 min lessons) with Emile Naoumoff
Piano Studio Workshops (3) with Emile Naoumoff
Theory:
Guided by composer Philip Lasser of The Juilliard School, students take Counterpoint and Keyboard Harmony each in week-long intensive immersions. With classes and workshops daily, you focus your attention entirely on one craft at a time. It’s boot-camp for Counterpoint and Harmony.
3-week Intensive Counterpoint, Keyboard Harmony & Musicianship
All students take:
Analysis Seminars and are invited to Masterclasses & Concerts given by our faculty, guest artists and world famous pedagogues and performers.