<p>Thanks for trying! Our daughter will probably have to stay home and work in the grocery store or something, to pay for conservatory next year, anyway!</p>
<p>rcmama, that NC program looks like it might fit my son very well. Does anybody else know anything about it? This is a composition/music technology 3-week session at the North Carolina School for the Arts.</p>
<p>To bring this back up, we just learned that my son didn't get into the composition program at Bowdoin (probably a bad omen for BUTI as well). We're about to apply to the NC School of the Arts program. Anybody have any other ideas on a non-competitive (or at least less competitive) summer composition/arranging program, where it's not too late to apply?</p>
<p>I mentioned this one earlier, but it's really geared to college/prepro students, and as a full fellowship program is highly competitive. I post here more as something to keep in mind for the future, and as a possibility for others to consider. </p>
<p>There is no app deadline; acceptance is open till all slots are filled.
UNL</a> | Music | Chamber Music Institute</p>
<p>I would recommend that you also look at the composition program at NYSMF. I don't think it will be as competitive to get into as the other programs you considered, and they accept applications until May 1 and probably later if they still have room. For two summers, my D attended Hartwick (as an instrumentalist, not for composition) and she was very happy. The same people who ran the program then at Hartwick, moved over to SUNY Oneonta and created NYSMF.</p>
<p>We've looked at the NYSMF one, too...Winston-Salem would be a little more convenient than Oneonta for us, but he'll probably apply. Thanks.</p>
<p>Chiming in for Walden again. Site is Walden</a> Woods Project & Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods. Our daughter made the final cut at Juilliard (still waiting to hear) and got early notice of merit aid at Oberlin Conservatory, with the work she did at Walden. We really credit the program for this work. All the students' works were equally amazing. Very prominent board members like George Crumb, Samuel Adler, with faculty from many colleges and conservatories. Their deadline for application is early April.</p>
<p>compmom, did you mean Walden School: Walden</a> School - Summer Program
Thanks.</p>
<p>How did that happen? Thought I wrote Walden and then the site, [url=<a href="http://www.waldenschool.org%5DSummer">http://www.waldenschool.org]Summer</a> Music Camp and Summer Music Festival: The Walden School<a href="maybe%20I%20left%20out%20%22school%22?">/url</a>. Glad you caught it. It's a great program.</p>
<p>The CC software has recently started to link in the title of the referenced page rather than displaying the address (URL) that you enter. If you enter the wrong URL, the wrong title gets displayed. You did indeed leave out the "school" part of the URL and got a link and title from a different Walden.</p>
<p>We just learned that my son was accepted to the BUTI Young Artists Composition Program for this summer. Thanks to everyone for their advice. He's very excited (although we're kind of sad he'll be gone for six weeks.)</p>
<p>Dear Hunt,</p>
<p>My son is very interested i the BUTI Young Artist Composition Program. He did California Summer Music last year, and loved, but wants something longer so he can get more writing done. How did your son like the program last year? Did he get a lot of personal input from the teacher? How were the musicians who played his pieces - very competent? Thanks for your input</p>
<p>For people interested in Paris, this is probably the program in question:
European</a> American Musical Alliance</p>
<p>We had one of our students study there last summer. It's a great experience. </p>
<p>I'll second the comments re: Bowdoin. Extremely selective. </p>
<p>Also, I've heard our composition faculty here at Bard speak highly of the Walden School's summer program in New Hampshire.</p>
<p>Hello Hunt. How did your son like his experience with Composition at BUTI? Does he get to put his work on a CD at the end of the course to showcase his efforts? Do they also teach how put the music onto a software like Finale etc? My son has been playing around with Sibelius and is keen to learn the basics of composition (piano).</p>
<p>My son had an excellent experience at BUTI. Admission is competitive, so kids need to have some compositions for the application (my son only had a few, but many of the kids had extensive experience composing, pre-college programs, etc.). They do get a CD at the end with their compositions, and the performances are excellent. There is a concert at the end with a piece performed for each composer as well. The teaching was hands-on and excellent. I don’t know whether they taught them about software or not; my son was already using Sibelius at the time he went.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard of any major composition summer program which teaches the use of composition software. That is usually something a student learns on their own, often with assistance from their private teacher.
Ank, have your son check out the Walden program. It sounds to me like a good program for jumping in head first.</p>
<p>Just for reference as the discussion is headed towards software <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/369618-finale-v-sibelius.html?highlight=finale+sibelius[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/369618-finale-v-sibelius.html?highlight=finale+sibelius</a></p>
<p>Just to add (and I am obviously a fan, so indulge the boosting) that the Walden School program includes many students every year, who have never composed before, but have musical and creative talents. (There are also students there with a lot of experience, the range is wide and very comfortable).</p>
<p>Walden School has different levels of classes in theory and musicianship, and each student has a teacher with whom they work individually. Visiting musicians and teachers live, work and eat with students, and there are many informal opportunities to learn as well (our daughter learned about extended flute techniques from a very well-know flutist at dinner).</p>
<p>There are also elective classes, which may be writing music for film, jazz, music history, alternative notation systems and so on. Our daughter was exposed to a lot of “new music” and interesting composers.</p>
<p>At the end of the program, there are three “forum” concerts in which each and every student has a piece played, and recorded. The results are wonderful.</p>
<p>During the forums, visiting musicians play, but there are also opportunities for students to play as well. For instance, a student pianist might play a fellow student’s piece along with a visiting violinist.</p>
<p>Our daughter had not had a lot of theory before Walden, though she had composed quite a bit, and she was able to sort of accelerate through the conservatory prep program in our city, the next fall. </p>
<p>Walden has unique teaching methods. You can read about it on their site.</p>
<p>Greetings, all. I am entering a little late in the game for the BUTI program, I see, with the Feb 9 deadline… on a Friday afternoon on the West Coast when everything’s closed out there. Can anyone clue me in? We have 2 recordings and scores we could send Monday but I’m not sure what form an audition would take, and that is required. Walden looks wonderful too, and I like its holistic immersion, and emphasis on the foundations, but it’s $$$$!!!
Also, I can only find descriptions of the summer BUTI/Tanglewood program in Lenox, but I thought I heard that the Composition program is actually in Boston? I can’t seem to find anything about an alternate location, on the site. I’d love some pointers, thanks!</p>
<p>That link isn’t working…</p>