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.

Download Summer 2009 FAQs here. 

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 the 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

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.

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 mealsor 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.

Audition Materials

Participants must be 16 years or older to be considered. You must send a CD or tape with two contrasting pieces from the standard literature of your instrument. Please send supporting materials to:

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

***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.***

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