Summer Creative Music Making

Creative Music Making (Monday-Friday, June 3-7)

2:30-5:30PM

$180 before May 1, $200 after May 1

Love making things up on your musical instrument? Join us for Bridges Creative Music Making Camp! You can sign up as a musical composer or jazz musician, all levels welcome. Composers will write for professional community musicians. Jazz musicians will jam out in jazz combos. Faculty is made up of composers, performers, and jazz artists. Each day will begin and end with an improv session.

Monday-Thursday meets at Fairview Elementary with the final performance on Friday, June 7 at 4:30PM. Monroe County Public Library Auditorium.

"Our daughter had such an incredible time! We are thrilled with the experience and we hope to participate in many more Bridges programs to come. Thank you so much for a beautiful week!" - 2022 Bridges MAYO Composition Program parent

Creative Music Making Faculty

Kian Ravaei

Musical Composer: classical, rock, and electronics

Zoe Willingham

Jazz Violinist and Pedagogue

Joe Tyksinski

Concert and Jazz Bassist and Music Educator

Maggie Polk Olivo

Dena El Saffar

Bridges MAYO has had a long standing history of connecting its musicians with music composition. Former MAYO music director, Lauren Bernofsky- an internationally acclaimed composer, composed many of her string pieces while conducting MAYO's youth orchestra.

She continues to make guest composer appearances to the Bridges youth orchestra, teach and offer masterclasses to our Bridges composers.

We are always grateful for the wealth of community support. Here, Alejandro Gómez Guillén, the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra's conductor, talks to young composers about score study and music composition.