In addition to daily ensemble and full orchestra rehearsals, each camp participant may select an elective course for the week.

Please select your choice by checking the appropriate box on the form at left:

Beginning Piano Class
Instructor: Sharon Koster of Wittenberg's Center for Musical Development. Open to grades 5 and up. Limit 10 students. It is important for instrumentalists to have some keyboard skills. Learn to apply your music reading skills to the piano. If you read only one clef, say the bass clef, start to read the treble clef. Using Wittenberg's Keyboard Lab, students will learn keyboard landmarks and begin to play simple pieces.

Bodies in Motion
Instructor: Marck Cummings of the Gary Geis Dance Company. Open to all grades. Limit 15 students. Musicians can learn to hear music better if they start to think more like a dancer. Experience where modern dance movement meets classical music, as you explore improvisation to the Hall of the Mountain King from Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite.

Fiddlin'
Instructor: Sara Kasten of The Springfield Symphony Orchestra. Open to all ages, limited to violinists. Many violinists enjoy playing "the fiddle" because it helps them to achieve more musical freedom and to explore an American cultural icon. In this class, students will explore some fiddle tunes while learning fiddle bowing and fingering techniques. Most of the music will be learned by ear.

The Science of Music
Instructors: Richard York and Colvin Bear of The Springfield Symphony Orchestra and Wittenberg. Open to all grades. To the musician, the instrument is a "tone generator." To the scientist, it is a "harmonic oscillator." What can we learn from these two views of the instrument? We will discuss the basic design of instruments, how this affects our playing technique, why some instruments "transpose," and how the instrument affects intonation. Planning to do a science fair project? Here's a good place to start!