<p>Since I am a junior now in high school, and considerably undertrained when comparing my training to the typical musical prodigy stereotype, I feel a summer music program focusing on contemporary performance, music production/recording, and/or songwriting. If any programs, specifically ones through colleges that are respected in this field, come to mind please let me know. Thanks for the help again!</p>
<p>Can you explain what you mean by “contemporary”? The term is used in many ways here on the forum.</p>
<p>I think that most musicians are not “prodigies” but work very hard for many hours every day for years, to attain the kind of proficiency that helps make them artists.</p>
<p>Berklee in Boston comes to mind, others will suggest more…</p>
<p>Pop/Rock is what i meant by contemporary.</p>
<p>So I would repeat Berklee, which has a summer program but I am not certain what the focus is,and others have mentioned U. of S. CA. (USC) Thornton School, which might have some programs…more ideas will be suggested now that Thanksgiving is over :)</p>
<p>p.s. here is a list from another thread:
USC Contemporary music; NYU’s Tisch Schools Clive Davis Recording/Producing program (for artists who want to also produce and or promote, by portfolio); Indiana (Bloomington) Jacobs’ Recording Arts Program (by portfolio, many rock-oriented students compose and track); University of Michigan Performing Arts Technology Program (part composition, production, multimedia, sound engineering and acoustic engineering, many many rock/alternative/indie students in this program),Humber College Contemporary music (Toronto, Canada).</p>
<p>Those programs are the mix my son chose to investigate, and all included pretty rigorous scores at reasonably rigorous schools academically (except Humber) – but there are others with which I am less familiar, such as Oberlin’s TIAMARA program (music technology), Northeastern’s music business, Syracuse’s music business, plus obvious choices such as Berklee.</p>