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SPCAA Summer Arts Camp – Stars and Stripes

What is Stars and Stripes?
The Summer Arts Camp Stars and Stripes will be an art and music day camp for children ages 6 to 14. Students will have classes in piano or violin, voice, music theory, and art. The week will culminate in a musical performance of Salute to America.

Ages 6 to 14 will love it.
All levels welcome.

Where is Camp?
St. Peter’s Community Arts Academy
149 Genesee Street
Geneva, NY 14456

When is Camp?
Monday – Friday: August 18th–August 22nd.

Registration Fee: $200.00
Includes: Students will receive a lunch each day and a morning snack. The camp cost also includes materials and a camp t-shirt.

Salute to America Musical
Student will end the week with a patriotic musical performance of Salute to America. The musical contains patriotic musical numbers such as You’re a Grand Old Flag, The Star Spangled Banner, I Pledge Allegiance, Battle Hymn of the Republic, My Country ‘tis of Thee, and America the Beautiful. There is also short dialogue before each number, which describes the origin of the song and its place in American History. This final project of the camp week will be held on Friday, August 22nd at 1:00 PM.

Who is teaching at camp?
Troy Slocum (Camp Director/Piano), Joyce Stanzel (Piano), Wendra Trowbridge (Community Choirs), Jennifer Sisbarro (Voice), Ellen Kogut (Suzuki Violin), Loraine Schoenfield (Suzuki Violin), Kirsten Burrall (Visual Arts), and Jeanette Nelson (Art Coordinator).

SUMMER LESSONS

Summer Piano Lessons
Summer Piano Lessons will be offered Monday through Wednesdays during the summer. We recommend a minimum of 4 piano lessons during the summer. All students learn by familiarity and repetition. For new students, summer lessons provide an excellent opportunity to try piano in a more relaxed environment. This also helps to build a foundation for a  successful fall program. For current students, summer is the time to enhance the skills which have already been formed in their minds and fingers.

How Does Piano Benefit my Child?
Research Shows – Teaching keyboard lessons, including music reading, pitch, rhythm, and creative exercises to children, helps to develop their spatial-temporal reasoning. This skill is needed to understand geometry, proportions, and how objects fit together in time and space.
–Francis Raucher, U of Wisconsin,
Gordon Shaw, U of California at Irvine.

Mental processing such as organization, production of melodies, and learning of pitch are all needed for making music. These factors enhance students ability in math as well. Once you learn how to organize and use a scale in your thinking, that… makes it easier for your brain to organize and use a number line.
–Martin Gardiner, Visiting Scholar, Brown.

About our Piano Teachers
Our teachers provide professional instruction and musical enrichment, yet challenge all students in a nurturing environment.

Troy Slocum (Piano Coordinator)
Troy is a cum laude graduate piano performance graduate from Nazareth College. He has taught privately over 12 years and is an active recitalist and accompanist. He is currently adjunct piano faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and at SPCAA. Troy has performed solo and chamber works in various venues through out the region.

Joyce Stanzel (Piano Instructor)
Joyce is an Eastman School of Music graduate and has been a music educator over twenty five years, both in the classroom and privately. She is currently on the piano faculty at SPCAA and is organist for Trinity Reformed church in Rochester, NY. Her company Visible Sound provides information about health, wellness and learning through music.

Both teachers are active members of the National Federation of Music Clubs, National Guild of Piano Teachers, Music Teacher’s National Association, and Rochester Piano Teachers’ Guild.

Contact Information
Please call the SPCAA office (789-0106) or the instructors directly for more information.
Troy Slocum (315) 521-4647
Joyce Stanzel (585) 671-5285

Summer Suzuki Violin Lessons
Violin Lessons will be offered this summer by SPCAA Strings instructors.
The summer session is particularly valuable for students who are at the developmental stage where ceasing lessons for the summer could be detrimental for their musical development, or for those that found difficulty in finding practice time during the school year. For most students, summer lessons provide the opportunity to continue with their musical progress or perhaps try violin for the first time during the relaxed months of summer.

Dr. Shinichi Suzuki always said that the best progress is one without rush and without rest. With summer lessons, students will increase their musical level and have a head start for the school year!

About the Suzuki Method
The Suzuki Method is based on the philosophy that every child can excel when given correct instruction and careful nurturing. The pattern of instruction offers an opportunity for parent and child to work together toward a common goal. The reward is the joy of shared success and the enjoyable experience of beautiful music making.

All around the world, the Suzuki Method is recognized to be one of the utmost contributions to music education of recent centuries. Hundreds of thousands of children have learned music by the Suzuki approach.

Violin Instructors
Violin lessons will be taught by SPCAA Strings Instructors
Ellen Kogut, Julianna Methven, and Loraine Schoenfield.

Contact Information
Please call the SPCAA office (789-0106) or the instructors directly for more information.
Ellen Kogut (315) 409-8331
Julianna Methven (315) 521-1401
Loraine Schoenfield (585) 554-3539

Summer Cello Lessons
Cello Lessons will be offered this summer. Please call the SPCAA office (789-0106) or Jackie Wogick (719-9963) for more information.

Summer Voice Lessons
Summer Voice Lessons will be offered on Tuesdays during the summer.
Please call the SPCAA office (789-0106) or Jennifer Sisbarro (607-592-5097) for more information.

NO Visual Arts Lessons thus summer — only the participation with the SPCAA Summer Arts Camp.

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Camp…
Do you know of anyone in the Geneva area interested in beginning their children in Suzuki violin lessons at St. Peter’s?

This August is a wonderful time to start! Miss Kogut will be running a “Jump Start Twinkle Program for children ages 3–6 and their parents. “Jump Start” will be running during the last week of August (exact days to be announced).

Camp time will be from 9:00 AM to noon and will introduce families to the Suzuki philosophy as well as teach children some basics of violin playing using box instruments.

Stay tuned for more information!
Call the SPCAA Office (789-0106) if interested in this opportunity.

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