Book your summer tour...de FLUTE!
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*For High School and advanced 8th grade students
Why attend this online camp? This is a rare opportunity to study with three highly experienced flute teachers and orchestral performers. Together, we draw on our 35+ years of knowledge to help you hone your flute playing skills. We do this through daily interactive warm ups, scales and technique classes, masterclasses, audition preparation sessions and performances. We love music, and we love to teach. We want to help YOU become a better, stronger flutist and musician. Plus . . . we always have a great time being together, and we want to share how we relate to music and learn new things. We've designed a fun 5-day tour to help you become a better, well rounded flutist. The online experience allows you to meet and hear flutists from all over, not just your school flute section.
A class? A camp? A masterclass? This tour is all that!
A class? A camp? A masterclass? This tour is all that!
World Tour of Repertoire
We'll get you started on several pieces together as a class! The pieces will be from the standard flute and piano and solo flute repertoire. We'll dive into learning about the composers, their musical style, and simple ways to approach your practice of these beautiful works. The pieces we'll explore as a class include the Faure Fantaisie, Taktakishvili Sonata and Piazzola Tango Etude #1. Plus, as a performer, you can elect to play a solo of your choice in class to get our feedback.
Tour Itinerary (our typical day)
A typical day includes . . .
- Daily Apple: our favorite tone and technique exercises to help you reach your destination - in any etude, piece, or mountain you may scale (those, too)
- Repertoire Classes: we'll take a tour around the world through excellent flute repertoire we learn together as a class.
- Masterclasses: performers play a short piece for us, and we learn together through feedback and exploration
- Two days dedicated to All-State and College Audition preparation where we present efficient and effective audition strategies to present you at your best. Not from Florida? Share your All-State etudes with us and we'll share our strategies with you!
- Special Topics Classes include the physics of the flute, breathing techniques, vibrato and intonation, phrasing, sight reading, practice and audition strategies, tips on playing the piccolo, and other skills to take your playing to the next level
Special Tour Excursions include . . .
- A recital by your Tour Guides - Francesca Arnone, Beth Larsen, and Bill Larsen
- Mock All-State audition and a final online concert to celebrate the journey's end - everyone plays!
- Performer ($225)- play once in one of the repertoire masterclasses (we suggest a short 3-minute excerpt, piece, or etude), have one 15-minute lesson with one of our trio teachers, play and participate in all other group classes. We will invite several masterclass performers to play in our closing concert. There are only 12 Performer spots available, so apply early!
- Participant ($175) - play and participate in all classes, including the Daily Apple classes, All-State masterclasses, special topic classes, and our closing concert.
- EVERYONE will have access to a password-protected area on our website with class resources and all kinds of inspiring helpful tips to keep you moving forward in your playing.
- EVERYONE has the added bonus of sending a short video two weeks after the camp to follow up on a topic or piece, which we will review and send feedback to you - all included in your camp tuition!