Program

The opportunity to perform a solo with an orchestra is often restricted to students who have won a competition, but our program is intended to provide this experience and training for students of all ages and ability levels. This is our signature program, one that has been in constant development for over a decade. It offers students a rare opportunity to prepare and perform a solo work together with our professional festival orchestra over an entire week in an environment that provides exceptional support and musical development individually customized to each young musician. We collaborate with each student's private instructor to ensure a comprehensive and age-appropriate experience. To round out each student's collaborative training, everyone participates in small ensemble chamber music.

Students in this day program enjoy private lessons, workshops, technique classes, performance classes, daily work with the festival orchestral principals, and chamber music, culminating in a formal concert at the end of the program. This program is designed for students in K-12 who are working on the standard solo repertoire for their instruments. Our instructors are experts in working with students of all ages and ability levels, and our program is customized to suit the needs of students who already have some solo, chamber music, and/or ensemble performance experience, as well as those who will have these experiences for the first time.