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Summer Piano Camp and Piano Lessons

What is Piano Camp?
Piano camp is a summer program for one week, taught by professional music teachers. Your child will experience keyboard fun, music reading skills, theory games, crafts, singing, and, of course, snack time.

Ages 5-12 will love it.
All levels welcome.

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

Monday – Friday: July 13th-July 17th
Your Choice of:
Morning session 9:00 a.m. to Noon for Beginner
Afternoon session 1:00 to 4 p.m. for Advanced

Registration Fee: $150.00
Includes: daily snacks and beverage, piano music, craft materials, pizza party, t-shirt and piano camp book.

Special Opportunity: On July 17th, camp students will present a program for parents to see how much their children have learned!

Summer Piano Lessons
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. Summer lessons will begin the week of June 22nd. The cost for summer lessons will be reduced to $20.00 per lesson. Students must sign up for a minimum of 4 lessons through out the summer. Students must register for summer lessons with their teacher and will be billed for the number of lessons scheduled. All summer lessons must be paid in full before lessons begin.

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
SPCAA Office
149 Genesee Street
Geneva, NY 14456
Phone (315) 789-0106
Joyce Stanzel (585) 671-5285
Troy Slocum (315) 521-4647
Coordinator Email: TroySlocum3@aol.com

Summer Suzuki Violin Lessons

Suzuki Violin Lessons
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.

Contact Information
SPCAA Office
149 Genesee Street
Geneva, NY 14456
Phone (315) 789-0106
Strings Instuctors:
Ellen Kogut (315) 409-8331
Loraine Schoenfield (585) 554-3539
Julianna Gray (315) 521-1401
Coordinator Email: j_gricius@yahoo.com

Summer Voice Lessons for Children and Adults

Voice Lessons will be offered on Tuesdays during summer. Please give the SPCAA Office (315) 789-0106 or Suzanne Murphy (315) 789-7210 a call for more information.

Summer Cello Lessons for Children and Adults

Cello Lessons will be offered this summer. Please give the SPCAA Office (315) 789-0106 or Jackie Wogick (315) 719-9963 a call for more information.

NEW! Summer Adult Opportunity Class for 5 Weeks in June:

Beginning/Intermediate Drawing and Painting Class will be offered Tuesday evenings 7:00-8:30 P.M. in the month of June. Hoping to paint and draw outside when possible. Please contact the office for all Hands On the Arts registration at (315) 789-0106 or Jeanette directly at (315) 781-0183.

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