Chamber Music in Grantham: Performance and Composition Intensive Chamber Music Program and Composition Workshop

July 31–Aug. 7, 2016

This one-week intensive program is designed to enhance participants’ ability to effectively communicate musical ideas in performance. Featuring artist faculty: the Mendelssohn Piano Trio: Peter Sirotin, Fiona Thompson and Ya-Ting Chang; and Richard Roberson, composer and dean of Messiah College School of the Arts This year, the festival will begin on Sunday afternoon, July 31, and run through the final concert on Sunday, Aug. 7. Qualified participants in the festival may receive graduate credit. For more information, please visit messiah.edu/gradprograms or call the dean’s office at 717-796-5045. Scholarships are available for highly qualified applicants.

Description of the program: Application process: For instrumentalists, please submit the ap- This one-week intensive program develops participants’ Application fee: $50 plication form, a letter of recommendation musicianship as they are both challenged and nurtured by a Application deadline: April 30, 2016 from your current major teacher with his world-class faculty. All application materials should be mailed to: or her contact information, a compact disc or dvd of two contrasting styles of music of Each participant will rehearse and perform in at least two Chamber Music in Grantham your choice and a $50 application fee by the chamber ensembles. The repertoire is carefully selected based Attn: Peter Sirotin application deadline. on the participants’ audition, and music is mailed in advance. 9400 Sunnyfield Court Participants are expected to come with their individual parts Potomac, MD 20854 For composers, please submit the application well prepared. [email protected] form, a letter of recommendation from your The workshop also provides a unique opportunity for 301-806-2250 young composers to work closely with young performers; work current major teacher with his or her contact on their compositions with the dean of the School of the Arts Notification of acceptance: May 28, 2016 information, a score of a substantial (longer at Messiah Full tuition and room and board due: than five minutes) composition for piano trio College and composer Richard Roberson; and get a reading June 6, 2016 and a $50 application fee by the application session of their piano trio by the Mendelssohn Piano Trio. One All checks should be payable to “Messiah deadline. Submitted works should not have or more of the piano trios will be performed by the College, Chamber Music in Grantham.” received a public performance. Mendelssohn Piano Trio in the final concert.

Performance Calendar: Sunday, July 31 3 p.m. Faculty Recital “This camp was a great experience, and I loved every minute of Sunday, Aug. 7 it. The atmosphere was fantastic, and the coaches were really 3 p.m. helpful. I only wish it could have been longer.” Student Concert –Hannah Thomas-Hollands, cellist, alumna

Chamber Music in Grantham Application Form

Check one of the following plans: NAME Tuition + double-occupancy dorm with full meal plan — $820 GENDER DATE OF BIRTH Tuition + single-occupancy dorm with full meal plan — $915 HOME ADDRESS Tuition + full meal plan — $630

EMAIL ADDRESS PHONE NUMBER Tuition only — $425

PARENT(S) OR GUARDIAN’S NAME(S) Send registration and check to: Chamber Music in Grantham PARENT(S) OR GUARDIAN’S PHONE NUMBER PARENT(S) OR GUARDIAN’S EMAIL ADDRESS Attn: Peter Sirotin 9400 Sunnyfield Court

MAJOR INSTRUMENT Potomac, MD 20854 [email protected]

NUMBER OF YEARS STUDIED 301-806-2250

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One College Avenue Suite 3004 Mechanicsburg PA 17055 717.766.2511 messiah.edu/music

Chamber Music in Grantham: Performance and Composition Intensive Chamber Music Program and Composition Workshop

Sunday, July 31 to Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016 Grantham, Pa.

Photo by Nathan Cox, courtesy of High Construction