<p>Has anyone had experience attending a workshop at Domaine Forget? Our D has to decide between attending an oboe workshop there or the one at BU. She is leaning toward BU since she has already had a lesson with one of the teachers at Domaine Forget, but we aren't sure what the program really is like at either place.</p>
<p>Thanks for any help you can give.</p>
<p>Do you mean the BUTI workshop?</p>
<p>Yes, the two-week one before the orchestra program. Her teacher says Domaine Forget because he is from the same "school" of teaching as the teachers there.</p>
<p>I just enrolled my daughter at Domaine Forget summer flute program. I heard there are excellent international teachers. It is somewhat complicated to get to but I think I have figured it out. I heard good reviews from at least three people that have gone there.</p>
<p>You must live in Canada to go way up there. The Pahud Masterclass sounds interesting, he is an amazing performer, maybe the best in the world, hasn't done much teaching yet. Khaner of course in the other masterclass is top level.</p>
<p>The rest appear to be solid Canadian teachers. Your daughter should learn a great deal. </p>
<p>May I ask if this is her first camp and what level she plays? </p>
<p>Looks like the accept everyone beyond beginner level. They dont give much guidance from what I read about what type of audition piece they expect you to record and submit.</p>
<p>Wonder if you can audit the Pahud MC? Not sure how well he speaks English, he probably will teach in French.</p>
<p>I have heard positive things about Susan Hoeppner, great to see the Canadians have a quality camp for themselves.</p>
<p>To flutemomliz,</p>
<p>Very solid teachers there. As I understand it the Pahud masterlass is open audit to all students attending that week. Students audition the first day of program to perform in the mc however it draws students from all over the world to do just that, so very competitive. My daughter has been to other programs like this plays at a level six +, is an advanced player.</p>
<p>I heard that it is competitive to get into, but I really don't know since they invite intermediate levels as well, but I think it is made up mostly of college age students. I'll know more at the end of the program!</p>
<p>momager </p>
<p>Great program for your daughter to get into, she must play very well.</p>
<p>Are you Canadian and does she speak French? And when you say 6+ as her level are you talking about the Canadian Royal Conservatory system? Did you say she was a freshman in high school?</p>
<p>The main site for that program is in french and most of the teachers are French or French Canadian so I wonder if it will be taught in French or English.</p>
<p>Some of the same teachers teach at the Baker camp which I believe is in Connecticut. We have looked at that camp for our daughter. But it would be great to audit the Pahud MC even if you didn't understand French because he is just that good a flute player. If it wasn't way up there in Canada it would be worth the trip to just experience Pahud.</p>
<p>For oboe, the teachers are Linda Strommen of IU and Elaine Douvas of Juilliard. Someone told me that there were about 40-50 oboists there when she went. </p>
<p>Momager, when is the flute camp that your daughter is going to? Our daughter will be at the oboe camp June 25-July 2. You are ahead of us in figuring out how to get there, but I better get going on that.</p>
<p>FluteMomLiz, here is the url for the English version of the website:
<a href="http://www.domaineforget.com/en/index.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.domaineforget.com/en/index.asp</a></p>
<p>Domaine Forget has both english and french sessions...</p>
<p>I've been to the Domaine Forget string session three times and had absolutely wonderful experiences. I don't know anything about the wind program, but I liked the laid-back atmosphere (compared with some other music festivals) and the awesome teachers at the string session. I had a lot of face to face time with my private instructor and got to play in two masterclasses during the two weeks. The accompanists were great -- they came to many of my lessons and we had some pretty long sessions preparing masterclasses and just going through some standard repetoire. The French, American, Candian mix lent itself to a nice international flavor too.</p>