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 (see other side ➤) Photo by Nathan Cox, courtesy of High Construction High of courtesy Cox, Nathan by Photo Grantham, Pa. Grantham, Sunday, July 31 to Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016 7, Aug. Sunday, to 31 July Sunday, Intensive Chamber Music Program and Composition Workshop Composition and Program Music Chamber Intensive Performance and Composition and Performance Grantham: in Music Chamber messiah.edu/music 717.766.2511 17055 PA Mechanicsburg venue Suite 3004 Suite venue A College One c musi of ment rt pa de For the past 15 years, Mendelssohn Pianist and composer Richard Activities: Each chamber group will Piano Trio has been thrilling audiences Roberson serves as dean of the have group rehearsals, coaching by all in the U.S. and abroad, performing School of the Arts at Messiah College, members of the faculty, performances with that rare combination of powerful where he oversees the Departments in the masterclasses and a public per- individual talent and tight-knit of Music, Theatre and Dance and the formance in the High Foundation Recital Faculty bios collaboration that is the hallmark of a truly exceptional chamber Visual Arts. He continues to perform, Hall at the closing of the festival. Various music ensemble. Currently ensemble-in-residence for Washington including a recent performance with Damian Savarino seminars of music/chamber music- D.C. Embassy Series and Messiah College, the group’s performances in Berlin. Also a composer, his recent works include the related topics will be held each day. have been described by the Washington Post as “unfathomably song cycle “Triptych,” “Suite for Clarinet,” “Fanfare In addition to attending performances beautiful,” “transcendent” and “electrifying.” The American Record for an Uncommon President,” and the choral “And and master classes, participants in the Guide, Fanfare Magazine and others have praised the trio’s many the Word.” He is a graduate of the schools of music of Composition Workshop will write music recordings, which are frequently heard on numerous classical music Indiana University and the University of North Texas, and participate in group critique, study stations in the U.S. Mendelssohn Piano Trio is currently recording the where his principal teachers were Hans Graf, Walter selected chamber works and supervise complete Haydn Piano Trios cycle for Centaur Records. Robert, Larry Walz and Bernhard Heiden. readings and rehearsals of their works. Contributions to support the educa- Artistic Advisory Board: Facilities: Messiah College’s scenic tional and cultural objectives of Chamber Ann Schein, pianist, distinguished teacher’s chair at the Aspen Music School main campus, located on 400 beautiful Music in Grantham: Performance and Earl Carlyss, violinist, former member of the Julliard String Quartet rolling acres in the suburban town of Composition are gratefully accepted. Ronald Leonard, cellist faculty at the Colburn School Grantham, in south central Pennsylvania, All contributions are tax-deductible if Victor Danchenko, violinist, faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music and features the new Calvin and Janet High they are made to Messiah College and Peabody Conservatory Center for Worship and Performing Arts, designated to Mendelssohn Piano Trio/ Jerome Barry, baritone and artistic director of the Washington, D.C. Embassy Series with two concert halls and ample practice Chamber Music in Grantham. Richard Roberson, pianist and composer, dean of the School of the Arts at Messiah College room space for musical studies and performances. Please give a brief description of your solo repertoire and chamber music experience. Composers, please list your compositions. 15_2057.