SMALL ENSEMBLES

CHAMBER MUSIC & SCHOLARSHIP ENSEMBLES

Chamber Music/Scholarship Ensembles

Chamber Music Connection offers fun and challenging opportunities to play a unique and crucial role in a small group setting and helps develop musicianship as well as personal skills such as cooperation, leadership, poise, focus, and self-awareness. Trios, quartets, quintets, and instrument choirs are formed of players with compatible ages and abilities, as permitted from the pool of applicants. The program includes: a minimum of 30 coachings during the 36-week school year, master classes with guest artists, and performance opportunities at Hochstein and throughout the Greater Rochester area. For more information about Chamber Music Connection and the audition process, check out our website at www.hochstein.org/ensembles or call 585.454.4596.

Chamber Music Connection (CMC) for students in grades 6-12 and adults who play at NYSSMA Level 3-6, or the equivalent Weekly one-hour sessions will be scheduled at times mutually agreeable among ensemble members and coach. Open to piano, strings, woodwinds, and brass.

Fee: $10 registration fee; $540* yearly tuition payable in quarterly installments of

$135 each. For students enrolled in individual lessons at Hochstein, yearly tuition is $432 payable in quarterly installments of $108.

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Based on individual placement auditions, a limited number of merit scholarships may be awarded to students who are in grades 9-12, who play at NYSSMA Level 6 or the equivalent, and who are studying with a private teacher. Chamber Music Connection Scholarship Ensembles are expected to give several performances at Hochstein and in the community throughout the year. Upon confirmation, each group will receive specific registration information and curriculum requirements.

Participants pay only a $90 Scholarship Ensemble fee.

Scholarship Flute Choir Julie Smith, Director Mondays, 7:00-8:00 pm audition required grades 9-12, NYSSMA Level 6

Open by audition only to students who perform at NYSSMA Level 6. For more information and to request an application, call 585.454.4596.

Scholarship Trombone Choir Ben David Aronson, Director Mondays, 8:00-9:00 pm grades 9-12, NYSSMA Level 6

Open by audition only to students who perform at NYSSMA Level 6. For more information and to request an application, call 585.454.4596.