Birch Creek Steel Band and World Percussion
Jul 11th, 2007 by SBAA
Steel Band and World Percussion from Birch Creek Music Center!
Wednesday, July 11
Birch Creek is a music school by day and a performance venue in the evenings, offering over 35 concerts throughout the summer months in the campus’ historic concert barn east of Egg Harbor. Birch Creek offers four two-week resident sessions in Symphony, Percussion and Steel Band, and Big Band Jazz (two sessions). Students range in age from 13-19, and are given the unique opportunity to perform alongside their instructors, whose credentials include performing with such impressive groups as the Minnesota and Chicago Symphonies, the Eastman School of Music, and the Count Basie and Frank Sinatra Jr. Orchestras. Birch Creek Music Performance Center is a unique summer music school and concert venue located on Wisconsin’s beautiful Door County peninsula. For more than a quarter of a century, Birch Creek has been summer home to outstanding young musicians and some of the country’s top performers and music educators, who teach by day and perform by night in the rural campus 500-seat concert hall.
The Steel Band and World Percussion program is considered to be one of the most comprehensive summer education experiences for the young percussionist/drummer. Through hands-on experience in performance, small-group instruction, and master classes, the program provides an excellent working knowledge of all the instruments and styles essential for today’s percussionist. The Birch Creek program provides an environment not found on large lecture-style campuses – our small size and busy concert schedule challenge each student, whatever his or her level, to learn and perform at a pace found on the professional music scene.
Steel Band and World Percussion
Wednesday, July 11, 2006 - 3:00 - Beach Park Pavilion
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