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22 YEARS CELEBRATING PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC CAMP & FESTIVAL GUIDEBOOK JUNE 15 - JUNE 28, 2019 & JULY 13 - JULY 26, 2019
Study with Members of THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA Under the Direction of Kimberly Fisher | Principal Second Violin | The Philadelphia Orchestra 856.875.6816 | PhiladelphiaMusicFestival.org Photo Courtesy of suebphotography.com
A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY The Philadelphia International Music Festival offers student PROGRAM musicians from around the world the unique opportunity of OPTIONS spending up to four weeks immersed in performance training with AT PIMF members of the world-renowned Philadelphia Orchestra and other 6 internationally-acclaimed musicians. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (AGES 11 – 19) Our outstanding programs are designed for musicians of various ages and skill levels and include: private lessons, master classes and SOLO PERFORMANCE PREPARATION faculty recitals with members of The Philadelphia Orchestra; daily (AGES 13 – 19) orchestra, ensemble, and chamber music rehearsals; daily course PIANO STUDIES (AGES 13– 19) electives including: conducting, choir, composition, sight reading, music theory, ear training, fiddle music, and jazz ensemble; solo MUSICAL THEATRE & OPERA CAMP performance opportunities; and more. (AGES 8 – 19) PIMF also includes two exciting concerto competitions through CHAMBER MUSIC INTENSIVE which winners perform on-stage duo concertos with members (AGES 14 – 19) of The Philadelphia Orchestra and as soloists with New Jersey’s Ocean City Pops, and other professional and community orchestras. COLLEGE AUDITION PREPARATION (HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS & SENIORS)
STUDENTS MAY ATTEND ANY PIMF PROGRAM AS A RESIDENT, DAY, OR PIMF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EXTENDED-DAY PARTICIPANT. See website for details, or call KIMBERLY FISHER 856.875.6816. One-week options are PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN also available for most programs. THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA Photo Courtesy of suebphotography.com
2019 CONDUCTING FACULTY: SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PROGRAM AGES 8 - 19 Mark Gigliotti Co-Principal Bassoon | Highlights include: The Philadelphia Orchestra • Private lessons, master classes, and faculty recitals with Conductor | Lower Merion Symphony members of The Philadelphia Orchestra • Daily orchestra rehearsals (up to five ensemble levels) Thomas Hong • Optional daily Chamber Music Program Music Director at Penn Symphony • Optional Music Electives including: conducting, choir, Orchestra, University of Pennsylvania composition, sight reading, music theory, ear training, fiddle music, or jazz ensemble Louis Scaglione • Numerous solo performance and competition opportunities President & Music Director of the • Off-campus outing to Philadelphia Orchestra concert Philadelphia Youth Orchestra • Movie Night and other free-time activities And others • Select high school players invited to perform with college-level orchestra Auditions are required for placement • Gala Grand Finale Concert featuring all Philadelphia purposes only. As there are multiple International Music Festival orchestras ensemble levels, all instrumentalists are accepted into this program. The PIMF Symphony Orchestra program includes up to five PIMF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ensemble levels. All orchestral students will be accepted. KIMBERLY FISHER Auditions are required for ensemble placement and seating purposes only. PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN CHOOSE: THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA JUNE 15 - JUNE 28, 2019 & JULY 13 - JULY 26, 2019 Visit PIMF.org for details! SOLO PERFORMANCE AND SOLO PERFORMANCE COMPETITION OPPORTUNITIES PREPARATION PROGRAM The Solo Performance Preparation AGES 13-19 / BY AUDITION ONLY Program includes two exciting concerto competitions through which winners Students participating in the Solo Performance Preparation perform onstage duo concertos with Program spend 14 days in intense study, including: six private members of The Philadelphia Orchestra lessons with members of our world-class faculty, including and as soloists with the Ocean City Pops principal players and other members of The Philadelphia Orchestra or other professional and Orchestra; daily thirty-minute workouts with a faculty community orchestras. accompanist; daily chamber music rehearsals; three to four SAMPLE DAILY SCHEDULE hours of required daily private practice; daily faculty-led solo performance class; optional daily music classes including: 9:30am–12:00pm: Private Practice, Private conducting, choir, composition, sight reading, music theory, Lessons, Accompanist Workouts ear training, fiddle music, or jazz ensemble; master classes and 12:00pm–12:50pm: LUNCH faculty recitals featuring members of The Philadelphia Orchestra; 12:50pm–1:50pm: Private Practice or ample solo performance and competition opportunities, and Optional Daily Music Course more. 2:00pm–3:00pm: Solo Performance Class 3:15pm–5:15pm: Chamber Music Program 5:30pm–6:30pm: DINNER 7:00pm–Evening Concert or Special Event The PIMF Solo Performance Preparation Program – the most competitive of our many programs – is limited to only JUNE 15 - JUNE 28, 2019 22 students. Early application is highly recommended. JULY 13 - JULY 26, 2019 856.875.6816 | EMAIL: [email protected] CONNECT WITH US Photo Credit: Rubén Mariblanca Nieves
PIANO STUDIES PROGRAM FACULTY MEMBERS PIANO STUDIES PROGRAM SPONSORED BY: CUNNINGHAM PIANO COMPANY AGES 13-19 / BY AUDITION ONLY Designed for intermediate to advanced level pianists, the PIMF Piano Studies Program includes: three private lessons weekly with world-class faculty pianists; weekly piano SVETLANA SMOLINA master classes; daily music education courses & seminars INTERNATIONAL SOLOIST including: music theory, four-hand literature, piano duets, and sight reading classes; a piano technology class; two- four hours of required, daily private practice; daily chamber music coachings; a concerto competition through which winners perform as soloists with the popular Ocean City Pops Orchestra, or other professional or community orchestra; festival-wide solo performance opportunities; and more! HUGH SUNG /A MUSICAL LIFE PODCAST HOST & FACULTY MEMBER, CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC The Piano Studies Program at PIMF fills to capacity most years. Early application is highly recommended. See website for details.
YU XI WANG/ PIANIST. MUSICAL STUDIES FACULTY, CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ALL PIANOS ARE PROVIDED BY PHILADELPHIA’S PRESTIGIOUS CHOOSE: CUNNINGHAM PIANO COMPANY AND JUNE 15 - JUNE 28, 2019 ARE MADE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE JULY 13 - JULY 26, 2019 AT THE CONCLUSION OF EACH PIMF OR BOTH! SUMMER SESSION. Photos Courtesy of Active Image Media
GIVE YOUR SINGER MUSICAL THEATRE & OPERA CAMP THE GIFT OF OPERA LEARN TO SING IN ITALIAN, FRENCH, AND GERMAN! MUSIC THEATRE! FOR STUDENTS OF ALL LEVELS, FROM THE BEGINNER TO THE SEASONED SINGER. AGES 8-19. SCENE SELECTIONS WILL INCLUDE: THE PIMF MUSICAL THEATRE & OPERA CAMP may include: West Side Story daily opera scene rehearsals; small group and break-out sessions (Leonard Bernstein) focused on vocal health, singing technique, music theory and aural development; costuming and make-up workshops; musical theatre Into the Woods and opera history lessons; staging/blocking sessions; group vocal Company Sweeney Todd and acting lessons; physical and concentration-based exercises (to (Stephen Sondheim) teach the singer both technique and self-awareness); set design and creation; optional private voice lessons; and more. Advanced Pirates of Penzance singers may also be awarded opportunities to perform in full- The Gondoliers (Gilbert and Sullivan) festival student recitals. THE MUSICAL THEATRE & OPERA CAMP concludes with a Grand Don Giovanni Cosi fan tutte Finale Concert, allowing all participants to showcase their prepared The Magic Flute scenes! (W.A. Mozart) La Boheme (Giacomo Puccini) Those interested in lead roles must submit La Traviata (Giuseppe Verdi) audition materials online on or before April 30, 2019. JUNE 15 - JUNE 28, 2019 856.875.6816 | EMAIL: [email protected] CONNECT WITH US Photos Courtesy of Active Image Media
CHAMBER MUSIC INTENSIVE AGES 13-19 | BY AUDITION ONLY Chamber Music Intensive is designed to train young musicians to serve their respective communities through interactive chamber music performance. This exciting program also offers training in leadership and entrepreneurship skills - essential tools for young musicians planning a career in classical music. ABOUT CHAMBER MUSIC INTENSIVE Chamber Music Intensive engages, Chamber Music Intensive is designed to train select high school educates and inspires young musicians, students the hands-on, industry-specific mentoring and skills necessary to enable young musicians to become successful, engaging, and providing them with the career and life compassionate chamber musicians - prepared to contribute to the skills they need to develop into tomorrow’s vibrancy of their own home communities through interactive chamber civic-minded, entrepreneurial leaders. The music performance and engagement. Chamber Music Intensive team at PIMF SAMPLE DAILY SCHEDULE: will instill in each musician the importance 9:30am–12:00pm: Orchestra Rehearsal of sharing their musical gifts while using 12:00pm–12:50pm: LUNCH music as a tool to give back to their own 12:50pm–1:50pm: Conducting, Choir, Composition, Sight Reading, respective communities. Music Theory, Ear Training, Fiddle Music, or Jazz Ensemble 2:00pm–3:00pm: Private Practice 3:15pm–5:15pm: Chamber Music Rehearsals and Off-Site Community Performances 5:30pm–6:30pm: Dinner Those interested in lead roles must submit 7:00pm: Evening Concert or Special Event audition materials online on or before April 30, 2019. As part of the community engagement training in the PIMF Chamber Music Intensive, musicians perform in hospitals, JULY 13 - JULY 26, 2019 libraries, and/or other community sites in and around historic 856.875.6816 | EMAIL: [email protected] Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. ABOUT OUR MUSIC CAMPS The Philadelphia International Music Festival is a summer music camp offering students of all ages and skill levels the unique opportunity of spending up to four weeks immersed in classical music education and performance training with members of The Philadelphia Orchestra and other internationally-acclaimed musicians. For 21 years, young musicians have attended PIMF from throughout the U.S. and from nations around the world, including: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Ecuador, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Haiti, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Latvia, Macedonia, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vietnam, and elsewhere. These musicians have gone on to study at such outstanding institutions as: Curtis Institute of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music, James Madison Univ.,The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College, Miami Univ., National Conservatory of Music - Mexico, Peabody Conservatory, Princeton Univ., Rice University - Shepherd School of Music, Rome Conservatory of Music, Royal Academy of Music, Temple Univ. - Boyer College of Music, U.C.L.A., Univ. of Pennsylvania, and many others. The festival includes Six Program Options: Symphony Orchestra, Solo Performance Preparation, Piano Studies, Vocal Performance, Chamber Music Intensive, College Audition Preparation. All programs take place on the estate-like grounds of Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, named one of the 30 most beautiful college campuses in the US by Travel & Leisure Magazine.
ABOUT OUR PRESIDENT Sandy Marcucci is the co-founder of both Atlantic Cape Camps – the feature of an ESPN special aired throughout the United States and abroad – and the Philadelphia International Music Festival. Through her innovative marketing and media campaigns, Sandy has facilitated sports and music programs and clinics in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; Miami, Florida; Paris, France; London, England; Brussels, Belgium; Reykjavik, Iceland; and Groznjan, Croatia. Ms. Marcucci, former Assistant Director of Communications for the New Jersey General Assembly and former staff member at the National Defense Council Foundation in Washington, D.C., first acquired an interest in international marketing while studying at the American University of Paris and Sorbonne University. She is a past-member of the Friends Board at the Curtis Institute of Music. ABOUT OUR FACULTY ABOUT OUR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kimberly Fisher, Principal Second Violin of The Philadelphia Orchestra, has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras including The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony, and the Victoria Symphony. As recitalist and chamber musician she has performed across the United States and Canada, and in England, Spain, France, Germany, Japan, China, Vietnam, and Argentina. Ms. Fisher has appeared in chamber music settings in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Mogador Theater in Paris, the Kimmel Center, and the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, and in collaborations with internationally renowned artists such as Wolfgang Sawallisch, Cristoph Eschenbach, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and many others.
Ms. Fisher is an active pedagogue whose students have performed as soloists with major orchestras, attended distinguished music conservatories, performed as members of professional orchestras, and won many awards and competitions. Her energetic, communicative teaching style has led to invitations to present master classes, lessons, and seminars around the world. Her teachers have included her father, Lawrence Fisher; Yumi Ninomiya-Scott; Aaron Rosand; David Cerone; and Jascha Brodsky. OUR MASTER CLASS & TEACHING FACULTY FEATURES MEMBERS OF THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, INCLUDING: Ying Fu Marc Rovetti Dara Morales Associate Assistant Assistant Concertmaster Concertmaster Principal Second Violin
Kerri Ryan Hai-Ye Ni Joseph Conyers Assistant Principal Assistant Principal Cello Principal Bass Viola
Mark Gigliotti Jeffrey Lang Angela Zator Co-Principal Associate Nelson Bassoon Principal Horn Associate Principal Timpani
Visit PIMF.org for full faculty listing OUR FACILITIES AT Travel & Leisure Magazine has named Bryn Mawr College one of the 30 most beautiful college campuses in the United BRYN States. It is known for its Collegiate Gothic architecture and was modeled MAWR after Cambridge University. COLLEGE
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Principal Second Violin | The Philadelphia Orchestra Violin Second Principal
Study with Members of THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA Under the Direction of Kimberly Fisher | Fisher of Kimberly Under the Direction 856.875.6816 | PhiladelphiaMusicFestival.org