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Graduate and Continuing Education: Teaching and Learning Music Institute

Earn three graduate credits (or 67.5 PDPs) in one week! This intensive, one-week residential graduate institute centers on skill development through quality music literature study, discussion, and presentation. Singing, performing, composing, analyzing, and relating music to history and other arts will be explored, reflecting the national standards in music categories. Classes, workshops, projects and seminars focus on choral, chamber, instrumental, jazz, and band works. Technology, special workshops on singing and percussion, and concert attendance complete the week-long experience. Three graduate credits are awarded for successful completion of the institute requirements. Revisit familiar works and discover new ones, learn about music areas outside your area of specialization, develop tools and strategies for researching and preparing new repertoire, refine analytical and listening skills, and develop composing and conducting skills in a personalized and supportive small class setting.

COST
$1450, includes institute fee, graduate credit fee, room & board
$155 discount available for non-resident option (meals included for non-residents)

RESIDENTIAL AMENITIES
The program includes breakfast and lunch each day, meals on two evenings (additional evening meals would be on your own), and refreshments during break times.

On-campus housing is available to participants of the Summer Music Institute. Housing will include accommodation in an air-conditioned suite-style facility which includes shared access to a suite living area and bathrooms and single bedrooms for each participant. Typically four or five people will share a suite. Bedrooms (which have individual locks for privacy and security) include an extra-long twin bed, desk and chair, dresser, and wardrobe. Amenities in each room include bed and bath linens, clock/radio and a desk lamp, as well as internet access (via Ethernet cable). Suite living areas include a couch, chair and cable TV, plus a work table and chairs. Participants who decide to commute for this program and not stay on the campus are eligible for a $155 discount off the total price, or $1295 for the week.

Registration - SEATING IS LIMITED - REGISTRATION DATE EXTENDED TO JUNE 11
Use the 5-digit CRN located below to register.

CONTACT
For more information contact the Center for Professional Studies at 978-665-3636 or e-mail cps@fsc.edu

OVERVIEW OF CONTENT

Composition: Daily sessions on analysis of the compositional methods of significant composers ranging from Bach to Bartok.

Repertoire Highlight: Study and discussion of one work from each of the chamber, choral, jazz ensemble, orchestra, and band repertoires.

Seminar: Works or excerpts of works are used for score analysis, preparation, and conducting assignments.

Masterwork: One piece is chosen as the focus of daily study throughout the week. Methodologies of analysis, research, and relationship to cultural context and to other pieces in the genre are explored. (Examples might be a Beethoven symphony, Mozart Mass, ballet by Stravinsky, or a Puccini opera).

Special Topics: This daily session gives participants an opportunity to ask questions, address topics of special interest, and wrap up the day's experience.  

Technology Lab: Demonstration and hands-on working with Sibelius, Pro Tools, and Reason software. An overview of other music technology tools for creating, recording, and editing music, for theory and performance skill development and for teaching is provided.

Materials: Required scores and works to be covered (PDF)

Competence: Ability to read music, some knowledge of instruments and voices.

Course Requirements: In-class projects, presentations, concert review and final project (due a week after the workshop completion).

Tentative Schedule (PDF)
(Subject to change)

FACULTY & LECTURERS
(Schedule of lecturers subject to change)

Dr. Michele Caniato, Institute Director, Associate Professor of Music, Fitchburg State College Michele Caniato received the Bachelor of Music degree in saxophone performance and jazz composition from Berklee College and the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition from Boston University. Michele is the author of numerous compositions, arrangements, and journal articles, and most recently, The Jazz Ensemble Companion: A Guide to Outstanding Big Band Arrangements Selected by Some of the Foremost Jazz Educators, published by MENC.

Tom Foote Born in Naples, Italy, Tom has lived and spent extensive time on five continents. He has enjoyed a professional career in drumming with a wide variety of tour, recording and studio experience with the likes of Evelyn "Champagne" King, Ray Choo (Alicia Keys) and Grammy Winner "Speech." He studied at Shepherd College (WV), Berklee College of Music (MA) and Drummer's Collective (NYC). Versed in all styles of music and percussion, he teaches and plays in the New England area and is endorsed by Cappella Drumsticks. Tom currently studies African djembe with Moussa Traore and Sory Diabate, master drummers from Mali.

Zach Nazar Zach Nazar is a graduate of Berklee College of Music specializing in West African, Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, and Middle-Eastern percussion instruments and rhythms. Zach is a key member of the eclectic acoustic ensemble All of the Animals. He is the lead drummer in the Boston based Brazilian percussion ensemble BLOCO/Afro-Brazil. Zach is on faculty at Emerson College, Boston Conservatory and Boston Ballet as a dance class accompanist. He has recently accepted a personal endorsement from Vic Firth as well as an invitation to join their education team.

Michael LaCava Michael LaCava is currently the K-12 Fine and Performing Arts Coordinator for the Chelmsford Public Schools in Chelmsford, MA. Prior to his appointment in Chelmsford 5 years ago, he was the Director of Music and High School Band Director in Gardner, MA from 1992-2005. While as the Gardner Band Director, Michael’s marching, concert, and jazz bands all received top ratings at State Music Festivals and performed in various venues such as Disney World in Florida and Boston’s Symphony Hall. Michael is an active adjudicator and clinician and has conducted a variety of district bands in Central and Western Massachusetts. Currently, in addition to overseeing the Art and Music Department in Chelmsford, Michael is the conductor of the Fitchburg State College band.

Sue Ellen Kuzma Sue Ellen Kuzma resides in Natick, Massachusetts. She most recently taught voice at Trinity Rep Consortium for actors in Providence. Her professional life as a classical soprano has been in Boston, New York and Europe, where she appeared in critically acclaimed productions of  Cosi Fan Tutte and Le Nozze di Figaro directed by Peter Sellars.  She is equally at home as a recitalist and singer of contemporary work.  Her directing credits include the Young Artists Program for the Portland Opera Company in Maine and Opera to Go for Young Audiences, Inc. of Boston.