Esther Lamneck, 35 West Fourth Street, Suite 777 • (212) 998-5441, E-mail: esther.lamneck@nyu.edu

Program Overview

Summer Institute for High School Students, College Students and Young Professionals who play flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon or French horn.

An intensive week of master classes, concerts, workshops and open rehearsals at NYU in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village in collaboration with The Quintet of the Americas: "musical dialogue at the highest level" - Washington Post.

The Quintet of the Americas is one of the Western Hemisphere's finest chamber ensembles. The Quintet is in residence in the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions at NYU Steinhardt. The group's mission is to broaden the knowledge and appreciation of woodwind chamber music by performing contemporary, classical and folk-derived music from the diverse cultural traditions of the Americas, and through performing, commissioning and recording of woodwind quintets and related chamber music. For further information about the Quintet of the Americas and its numerous recordings and awards go to www.quintet.org

Typical Daily Schedule:

9 am morning meeting with all students
9:30- 12 noon coaching with woodwind quintet faculty
12- 1 lunch
1-3:30 Master classes
4:30-5:30 rehearsal student quintets
5:30-6:30 rehearsals with Quintet of the Americas

Housing/Meals

All participants will be housed in unadorned dormitory bedrooms in multi-bedroom suites.  Each suite typically has two or three bedrooms.  Each bedroom has two or three beds and is furnished with a bed, desk, dresser and closet/wardrobe for each guest. If a resident is assigned to a single bedroom, he or she will not be assigned a roommate in their bedroom.   Each individual suite has a bathroom shared by all occupants of the suite.  There are no kitchens in our facilities used for short-term housing.   NYU Summer Housing does not provide in-room telephone, television, or internet connectivity to short-term guests.  Click here for more specific housing information.

You will receive meal tickets for two meals daily in campus dining halls.  Dining halls are closed on Saturdays and Sundays.  You will be responsible for your own meals then, as well as any other meals or snacks outside of the two meal tickets per weekday.

Cost

The cost for the program is $875. Meal plan and housing are not included in the program fee.

Application Fee & Audition Materials

Participants must be 16 years or older to be considered.

If you would like to be considered for the workshop you must submit the following:

• a general online summer application
• application fee of $50 (non-refundable, checks payable to New York University or use credit card form)
• CD with two contrasting pieces from the standard literature of your instrument, (or submit a video online, instructions here)

Please be sure to include your contact information: phone number, mailing address, and your e-mail address as well as the name of your school and your year of study (i.e., high school senior, college junior).

Send your application fee and audition materials to:

Esther Lamneck, Director
Program in Woodwind Studies
Music and Performing Arts Professions
35 West Fourth Street, Suite 777
New York, NY 10012

If you submit your audition video online, you should put all your contact information requested above in the same email to Professor Lamneck at esther.lamneck@nyu.edu. You will still need to mail in your application fee to the address above.

Audition materials become the property of NYU Steinhardt and cannot be returned.

***PLEASE NOTE: Participants under the age of 18 will be required to attend activities on practically every evening during the program. Activities will include trips to the theatre, concerts and visits to important sites throughout New York City.***