Instrumental Summer Program

In association with C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University, the The Bel Canto Institute Summer Program and Youth Division Summer Program will be held in Florence, Italy. Singers and coaches will be chosen by means of audition to participate in the program which will not only encompass the musical aspects of style and tradition, but other essential historical and cultural elements which influenced the entire era. The artists will receive coaching sessions, voice lessons and performance classes on style and tradition. In addition to performance classes, participants will perform in two concert performances in public venues in Florence. Italian language classes will be taught through La Scuola Leonardo da Vincii and college credit may be obtained through C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University. All participants will be housed with families, double-occupancy rooms, shared baths. Single rooms are available at additional cost. Breakfast and dinner will be provided by the host families. All music classes will be held at Il Trillo music school, a short walk from La Scuola Leonardo da Vinci. College credit may be obtained for all of the private lessons, private coachings/ensembles and vocal diction classes through C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University.

2010 Instrumental Summer Program Details
June 28 - July 24
The four-week summer program will be in residence in Florence, Italy.

Each participant will receive:

• 12 private instrumental lessons

• 2-4 sectional rehearsals of a complete Italian opera

• 2-4 private coachings

• 4-8 ensemble coachings (various composers)

• 2 classes on knife sharpening (woodwinds)

• 2 mock auditions

• 1-3 sessions on playing in opera stage bands

•

40 hours of
Italian language instruction
(Italian Class at La
Scuola Leonardo da Vinci
shown at right)

• Italian language books (dictionary not included)

• 2 classes on tradition and style in Italian opera

•
2 lectures:

"The Impresario in the Bel Canto Era"
"The World in a Poem:
Giacomo Leopardi's L'Infinito

• 1 discussion group with faculty: "The Road to College, the Road to a Career"

• 1-2 concert performances in public venues in Florence

• 1 one-day excursion to Siena and San Gimignano

• 1 one-day excursion to Poggio a Caiano, a Medici Villa

The Cathedral of Siena
(right)

The Piazza del Campo, right, site of Siena's twice yearly Palio horse race...

Which is filled to overflow capacity (left)
for those events

San Gimignano (below)

• Breakfast and dinner daily (provided by host families), and a special farewell dinner on the final evening

INSTRUMENTAL ARTIST FACULTY (subject to change)

Peter Bond
(trumpet)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Ronald Carbone
(viola)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Orchestra of St. Luke's
American Ballet Theater Orchestra
Vassar College

Timothy Cobb
(double bass)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Emerson Quartet
Juilliard School of Music
Manhattan School of Music
Lynn University

Steven M. Crawford
(conductor)
Cincinnati Opera
Dayton Opera
Metropolitan Opera

Pedro Díaz
(oboe/English Horn)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Juilliard School of Music

Giuseppe Ettorre
(double bass)
Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

Laura Hamilton
(violin)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
American Symphony Orchestra

Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson
(flute)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Italian language classes will be taught through La Scuola Leonardo da Vinci and college credit may be obtained through C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University. All participants will be housed with families, double-occupancy rooms, shared baths. Single rooms are available at additional cost. Breakfast and dinner will be provided by the host families. All music classes will be held at Il Trillo music school, a short walk from La Scuola Leonardo da Vinci. College credit may be obtained for all of the private lessons, private coachings/ensembles and vocal diction claases through C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University.

Susan Jolles
(harp)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Manhattan School of Music
Mannes College of Music

Jane Bakken Klaviter
(coach)
Metropolitan Opera

David Langlitz
(trombone/bass trombone/tuba)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Toni Lipton
(bassoon/contrabassoon)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (retired)

Roger Malouf
(coach)
Metropolitan Opera Mannes College of Music

Thomas Martin
(double bass)
Royal College of Music, London
Royal Scottish Academy of Music

Lanny Paykin
(cello)
Brooklyn Philharmonic
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
New York City Opera Orchestra
Aspen Festival

Jessica Phllips
(clarinet)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Scott Temple
(French horn)
New York City Opera Orchestra
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Orchestra of St. Luke's