2014 Summer Academies in the Arts: Music

Prepare for an education or a career in Music through Vocal, Chamber, Guitar and Computer Music intensives. Enhance sight reading, understand solfege, develop ensemble performance skills, explore advances in music technology and improve musicality. Training may include Instrument Care, Audition Preparation, Conducting, Eurhythmics and Composition.

Guitar Intensive
Provides students one-on-one coaching in chord shapes, sight reading of chord progressions, music notation and tablature, and classical guitar repertory. Special emphasis will be placed on group learning through ensemble sight reading and performance. The intensive is ideal for serious classical, rock and jazz guitar students.

Chamber Music Festival
Offers aspiring young instrumentalists one of the most unique and rewarding musical experiences available in Southern California. Under the direction of the award-winning Trio Céleste – Ensemble-in-Residence at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UC Irvine – week-long intensive features daily coaching sessions, specialized professional seminars focusing on topics such as instrument care, rehearsal technique, performance enhancement, using music for positive change, eurhythmics and ear training, and much more.

Vocal Scholars Intensive
The Vocal Scholars Program provides vocal development for the emerging singer. Individual attention and group instruction includes work on fundamentals of alignment, breath control, voice production and performance skills, sight-reading, solfeggio and rhythm study. Movement sessions will develop a connection to musical expression and technique, and workshops will include ensemble performance, conducting and stage deportment, as well as techniques for solo and group singing, with master classes and open rehearsals.