Oak Ridge Summer Conservatory

FOURTH ANNUAL OAK RIDGE SUMMER CONSERVATORY (ORSC)

August 6-11, 2012, at the Historic Grove Theater, High Places Community Church, 123 Randolph Rd., Oak Ridge, TN

One-week program for string players and pianists

Rachel Grubb, Artistic Director, and Seaira Stephenson, Executive Director

INSTRUMENTAL PROGRAMS

Advanced Chamber Music for high intermediate to advanced string players.

Qualifications: Students must be high school or advanced middle school musicians. ¿New students to the Chamber Music Program must submit a 3-5 minute mp3 or youtube video of their playing along with their registration e-mail. (Current students in the ORYSO Advanced Symphony and past students in the ORSC advanced string program do not need to send a recording with their registration.)

Festival Orchestra / Master classes
Chamber Music Ensembles / Music Classes Honors Recital
Program times: 3-8 p.m. daily
Tuition: $160*


Junior Orchestra for intermediate string players.

Qualifications: Students must be able to shift and have at least two years of orchestra experience. Ages 7-14.

  String Orchestra / Individual Lesson
  Master classes / Music Classes / Honors Recital
  Program times: 10 a.m. - 2pm daily (7pm Events)
 Tuition: $120*


The Piano Institute offers talented pre-college pianists (ages 12-18) the opportunity to work intensively on their solo and chamber music repertoire.

Admission into the Piano Institute is determined by the ORSC faculty based on a prepared recording (mp3 or youtube video). Piano Institute students must submit an audition recording of their own, unedited playing of one Piano Sonata or Sonatina, and a contrasting piece. Students must have at least two pieces memorized and a performance ready for the Summer Conservatory week.

Chamber Music / Master classes / Visiting Artists
Piano Ensemble / Music Classes / Honors Recital / Final Performance
Piano Institute times: 3-8 p.m. daily
Tuition: $160*


HOW TO REGISTER

    1.    E-mail rachel2006@comcast.net and please include your name, age, instrument, number of years of study on that instrument, and the program for which you are registering. Pianists and Advanced Chamber Music musicians may submit their recordings as attachments or links on the e-mail.
    2.    You will be contacted within five days of our receiving your registration e-mail. If you are not contacted, please call to confirm that we received your email. Upon acceptance, you will receive an information packet via email.
    3.    Full tuition is due on the first day of the Conservatory.*

*Financial assistance is available to students with demonstrated financial need.

Questions? If you are not sure which program would be best for your music student (or for any other questions), please call Rachel Grubb at 865-406-8211 or e-mail her at rachel2006@comcast.net

The third annual Oak Ridge Summer Music Conservatory was held July 11-18 at the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church.

Rachel Grubb, conservatory artistic director, former ORYSO conductor, and music major at Northwestern University, provided one-week programs for teaching students how to perform on string, wind, brass, and percussion instruments, as well as piano.

The theme was Spanish Festival Music and a full festival orchestra performed.

Advanced symphony and chamber music was performed by high intermediate to advanced student musicians playing string, wind, brass, and percussion instruments.

The Piano Institute offered talented pre-college pianists (ages 11-18) the opportunity to work intensively on solo and chamber music repertoire.

The Oak Ridge Summer Conservatory features:

Festival Full Orchestra

Chamber Music

Master classes

Music classes

Honors Recital

To see a newspaper article on the Oak Ridge Summer Conservatory in 2010 and on Rachel Grubb, ORYSO's first conductor, click here.