FLMF: Summer Camp Directory

Piano Summer Camp Links - if you would like to be added to this list, please contact webmaster at jeripno4te@verizon.net

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Local Away Camps or Day Camps for the Younger Set, in the DC area

Piano Express: Summer Camps in the Ashburn area for beginning piano students. Get a taste of piano in these camps in the Spring designed to be an introductory course. Call 703-726-9484 for info. See website below.
www.thePianoExpress.com

Shenandoah Performs - Summer Performance Camp at Shenadoah University

http://www.su.edu/shenandoahperforms/gi.asp

Contemporary Keyboard Studios, Falls Church, VA

http://www.ckstudios.com/camps.htm

Levine School of Music (DC) Day Camps

http://www.levineschool.org/site/PageServer?pagename=summer_at_levine

George Mason's Potomac Arts Academy

www.potomacacademy.org

http://music.gmu.edu/potomac/WhatWeDo/SummerProgs/Summer.html

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"Away" Camps and Summer Programs for the Serious Piano Student (most are high-school age):

University of North Carolina-Greensboro (UNCG) Summer Music Camp

Grades 6-12 1-800-999-2869 http://www.smcamp.org

Interlochen Music Camp (Michigan). Longstanding as the best around, this would be a good investment for anyone serious about piano!

http://camp.interlochen.org/high-school-music-summer-programs

International Keyboard Institute and Festival in NYC (high school students welcome!)

http://www.ikif.org/

Berklee School of Music's (Boston) 5 week Summer Performance Program (for those of you non-classical artists, Berklee focuses on contemporary styles and has produced many music legends...see below.)

http://www.berklee.edu/summer/5week.html

Many Berklee alumni are prominent music industry professionals, including producer/arranger Quincy Jones; rock singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge; Steely Dan leader Donald Fagen; producer and Atlantic Recording Studios VP Arif Mardin; jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton; singer/ songwriter Patty Larkin; guitarist John Scofield; Living Colour drummer Will Calhoun; singer/ songwriter Bruce Cockburn; film composer Alan Silvestri; guitarist and Tonight Show bandleader Kevin Eubanks; singer/songwriter Paula Cole; and jazz saxophonist/composer Branford Marsalis.

Music for Video Games!!! Berklee School of Music also has this intriguing offering from the Film Scoring Department.

http://www.berklee.edu/summer/videogames.html#apply

Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester, NY). An acclaimed music school, Eastman offers several exciting programs for high school piano students.

http://esm.rochester.edu/summer/highschool.php

Oberlin International Piano Institute and Festival (Ohio). Another prestigious music college, Oberlin Conservatory offers this program for high school students.depar

http://www.oberlin.edu/con/summer/piano/

Indiana University's Summer Piano Academy (for high school students). Indiana is known for producing top musicians.

http://summer.indiana.edu/index.php?nodeID=precollege&programsID=44

Honors Piano Camp, Florida State University

http://music.fsu.edu/pr/summer-camps_descriptionspiano.htm

Piano Camp, University of Indianapolis

http://music.uindy.edu/cmc/spcii.php

Piano Discoveries at University of Mississipi

http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/youth/piano/

Summer Keyboard Institute - Furman University

http://www.furman.edu/depts/music/degreesandprograms/SKI.htm

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Other Good Databases of Music Camps:

Good List Compiled by Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University

http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/2748

Another Good List:

http://www.mcyo.org/summer.htm