Summer Program for student w/unusual background

<p>FiddleMom,
My Q about goals for summer study really grew out of your description of your D's situation: it sounds like she has a lot of performance experience, as well as experience in audition-like situations (festivals, all-state, etc) and specialty summer programs. If her college auditions are successful (and it sounds like she's made thoughtful and appropriate school selections), it may be that the the most useful thing she could do to get ready for fall might be more in-depth work on technique, etc to move her playing up a notch or two level-wise. That would make her more prepared and more competitive for ensemble auditions in the fall. My thoughts for intensive independent study were along the lines of the kind of lessons it seems she's already having, plus LOTS of practice time. Among my daughter's orchestra friends over the last year or so, those who decided a little late to go the college music route and weren't quite ready, and those whose first round of auditions weren't successful and decided to take a gap year and re-apply, really spent that extra time doing intensive independent work with their primary teacher and perhaps some additional master classes, coaching etc.</p>

<p>You may have seen the very excellent thread here about summer music programs, and of course you have some experience since your D has done fiddle camps, but here is a link to a wonderful resource produced by Strings magazine: and it's searchable, so you should be able to enter various criteria and come up with some "likely suspects" of programs that might meet her objectives. Good luck to your Daughter!</p>

<p><a href="http://www.stringsmagazine.com/search/summer/index.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stringsmagazine.com/search/summer/index.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>