Is anyone else starting to think about and make plans for summer yet? One of our favorite studio events of the year is summer piano camp. I started holding piano camps many years ago as a way of changing up piano lessons during the summer. We’ve done a wide variety of camp themes over the years – from a Kick-it-up-a Notch! intensive for middle and high school piano students to a fun Carnival of the Animals piano camp for elementary students to most recently a series of Piano Expeditions for young students who may not be taking private lessons. We’ve traveled To France with Saint-Saëns and His Carnival and To Russia with Mussorgsky and His Exhibition.
This year we’ll be going To London with Handel and His Messiah, and I’m super excited to introduce students to this magnificent oratorio that is based on biblical passages that foretell, announce, and celebrate the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. After several weeks of brainstorming, it’s rewarding to see plans come together for a week full of interactive lessons, energetic games, and musical exploration for an action-packed piano camp that I think the students will love! I’ll be sharing a few specific resources in the coming weeks that I’ve been working on in preparation for this year’s camp. In the meantime, here’s a highlight reel from last year’s piano camp:
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