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Quality Music Education for Teachers and Students
SUMMER MUSIC CAMPS
Local Camps for Younger Students in the DC area - (list includes both day and overnight camps)
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 Shenandoah 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
http://music.gmu.edu/potomac/WhatWeDo/SummerProgs/Summer.html
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Overnight 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!)
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
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 Mississippi
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