Have you ever wanted to write your own music?
Come join us as we learn how to create a musical work and hear it performed by our performance faculty!
The Fredonia Summer Music Festival will feature a new Composition Camp for all grades 8-12 (including recently graduated 12th graders). This camp will explore the art of creating music through instruction, demonstrations, group lessons, and individual review sessions. Students will learn how to build a new piece of music over the week, working with our faculty composers and performers, culminating in a public reading of each student’s music at the end of the Festival.
In addition to learning how to work with basic musical building blocks (melody, harmony, rhythm, form), students will have the opportunity to hear musical examples from both living and historical composers from many different styles and genres. Students will have daily “quiet time” segments specifically for them to write music. They will also attend daily masterclasses in subjects such as film scoring, entrepreneurship, notation, and songwriting as well as participate with the rest of the Festival students in our Festival Chorus, attending faculty recitals, and evening activities.