Hello. I have learned a lot from previous posts and really appreciate your readiness to share your experiences and advice!
My question is regarding summer programs for HS students focusing on music composition, mainly classical. My son is a HS junior with ~ 1 year composition experience (and has played piano for ~7 years). He participated in the Illinois Wesleyan Univ summer music composition institute last year and greatly enjoyed it. It was a perfect introduction well-suited for a range of students, and we would recommend it to others. He is already eagerly looking ahead to next summer and is hoping to do something a bit more intensive and a bit longer (ideal would be 2 weeks). Right now the programs that seem to fit those constraints are:
High School Composition Intensive at Berkelee/Boston Conservatory
Lamont Summer Academy (composition major)
Clevelend Institute of Music, young composers program (though one week only)
Any feedback on those programs? The others that looked possible focused primarily on performance with an option to be involved with composition, OR were either too long (for him) or too expensive (for us) or appeared to be for the truly advanced composition student. But perhaps I’ve missed other good ones we should also consider?
Though we are on the west coast, traveling east is certainly do-able.
Thanks so much for any comments or suggestions.