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Advanced Piano Summer Program for Grades 3-6
Why Take Advanced Piano
Spend your summer at Interlochen with other highly skilled and motivated young pianists in a life-changing program. You'll develop your skills, tackle challenging literature, and grow as a musician with our encouraging, world-class faculty.
What You'll Learn
Immerse yourself in the world of music while learning and growing alongside other young artists from around the world. Students in our advanced piano summer camp may participate in:
- Weekly private lessons with our distinguished faculty
- Daily applied musicianship classes—small group classes focusing on technique, keyboard theory, aural exercises, and dictation
- Piano hour—a class covering the following topics: performance issues, practice strategies, master classes, listening activities, piano literature, music history lessons, an exploration of keyboard instruments, and more
- Master classes with featured pianists and composers
- Assisted practice sessions
- Dalcroze Eurhythmics
Representative selections performed at Camp have included contemporary American composers, classical concertos, Bach inventions and dances, Chopin shorter pieces, Schumann and Tchaikovsky’s Album for the Young, Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, and pieces by Bartok, Kabalevsky, Burgmüller, and others.
Junior Honors Recital
Interlochen offers an Honors Recital competition for musicians in the Junior Division. Juniors accepted into the finals will perform in a special Honors Recital scheduled mid-week during the 2nd week of your session.
Program Highlights
Concerto Competition & Honors Recital
Interlochen Arts Camp offers a Concerto Competition for the High School and Intermediate Divisions, as well as an Honors Recital Competition for the Junior Division.
Performance Opportunities
Advanced Piano students will collaborate with students from the Advanced Junior Strings program, and will have opportunities to perform with other advanced junior pianists in two piano, eight-hand ensembles.
Practice Pianos
Students will have reserved supervised practice time at one of our 240+ pianos, which are located across our scenic campus.
Additional Opportunities
Piano students in grades 3-6 who are interested in a shorter experience may choose to apply for the Junior Piano Track for Grades 3-6.
Sixth grade is a year of choice: students in sixth grade may choose to apply either for a Junior session or for the Piano Summer Program for Grades 6-8.
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- Each of our seven arts areas
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- A day in the life of a student
- How to apply and financial aid information
- And more