<p>hey guys, i am currently looking for summer music programs to go to for 2013. I am looking for<br>
ones with professors that are on the faculty of prestigious schools like NEC, Oberlin, Eastman,
UMich, etc. My target school is NEC. Is there a program that would be the best for me?</p>
<p>Thanks! looking forward to hearing from all of you.</p>
<p>Interlochen, Tanglewood and the works are good places to start. Luckily piano is an instrument where most major music programs have at least one good teacher, as there are so many of us pianists.</p>
<p>It’s hard to find a single summer program with a critical mass of prestigious piano professors. Try Bowdoin. But if you are especially interested in NEC, then go through their faculty list and google each name in connection with the word “summer” and you’ll at least be able to see where they went last year.</p>
<p>There are a total of 11 NEC piano faculty members, according to NEC website. This past summer this camp had W.K. Byun, H.K. Chen, A. Korsantia, R. Sherman, V. Weilerstein, and B. Brubaker from NEC. That is, 6 out of 11 taught it there. This camp also had T. Blackstone and Y.F. Chuang from NEC Prep.</p>
<p>This camp is located in metropolitan Boston area. It is almost unknown to piano students in the U.S. because it did virtually zero marketing. About 1/3 of students are from China, and most of them are major conservatory prep or conservatory students in China. About 1/3 of students are from Taiwan, and many of them are competition winners in Taiwan. The remaining 1/3 are mostly Asian American students. The camp occasionally has white American students. The formal language used in the camp is English. Chinese is more often the language used among Chinese speakers in a private setting though.</p>
<p>The quality of teaching is excellent. My S attended the camp for the past 2 years.</p>
<p>NEC piano professor Victor Rosenbaum has been teaching at the International Keyboard Institute at Mannes for the last few summers. NEC’s Alexander Korsantia has been at PianoSummer at SUNY New Paltz, along with Vladimir Feltsman (Mannes and SUNY New Paltz) and other teachers from top schools.</p>
<p>Arthur Greene (University of Michigan) and Marc Silverman (Manhattan School of Music) have been teaching at the International Music Academie of Pilsen in the Czech Republic, which may have moved to Cambridge, England last summer.</p>
<p>James Giles (Northwestern) has been at the Eastern Music Festival in NC, along with Yoshi Nagai (San Francisco Conservatory).</p>