Summer Creative Music Making
Summer Creative Music Making
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Requirements: Ages 8-18, beginners-advanced levels. Musicians must know how to read music. Access to digital notation programs (Musescore, Dorico, Sibelius) is a plus, but not required.
Dates: June 16-20, 2:30PM-5:30PM at Fairview Elementary School
Performance: Friday, June 20th at 4:00PM at Monroe County Public Library downtown
Schedule:
2:30-3 Masterclass and musical ice breakers
3-3:30 Creative music making project and work time.
3:30-3:45 Snack
3:45-5:30 Composition/Jazz private lessons and work time
Tuition: $200 Early bird deadline is April 1st, $250 after April 1st
Scholarships available as well as discounts for siblings and bundle registrations.
"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
Creative Music Making Faculty
Zoe Imani Willingham is a classically trained performer, educator, and jazz violinist. She is a Jacobs School of Music alumna and will continue into her masters at IU, double majoring in Violin Performance/Jazz Studies. After over a decade of dedication, her love for music has not died. Her natural enthusiasm for music married with a diligent work ethic has allowed her to make remarkable achievements and discover her greatest passions: sharing her love of music through performing and teaching.
Corey Chang (MM, The Juilliard School), described as “a major composer…of his generation” by The Millbrook Independent, is an American composer, pianist and educator currently based in Bloomington, Indiana. As the recipient of an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and a nominee for a 2023 American Academy of Arts and Letters music award, Chang has had his music workshopped and performed by many top musicians and ensembles, both nationally and internationally.
Maggie Polk Olivo (BM, MAT) is a musical collaborator, creative, and educator. She holds degrees in music composition and music education from IU Jacobs School of Music and is a certified Kodaly educator and arts integration specialist. She works alongside Dr. Brenda Brenner at the Jacobs Fairview Violin Project, directs Jacobs Academy’s Musical Beginnings and Bloomington’s Bridges Musical Arts Youth Organization, and teaches music composition at Rocky Ridge Music Center in Estes Park, CO every summer.
Joe Tyksinski
Joe Tyksinski
Bassist and Jazz Musician
Hayden Bean
Hayden Bean
Guitarist
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.
More original Bridges MAYO Compositions:
More original Bridges MAYO Compositions:
"Quattro Cavalieri"
"Quattro Cavalieri"
Composed by Dario G.
"The Snail's Path"
"The Snail's Path"
Composed Fadzai G.
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