The WCM Artist Coaching Project’s performing artists collaborate each year with school music teachers, providing intensive student coaching for their bands, orchestras, chamber music ensembles and in private lessons. WCM artists work in conjunction with teachers to establish sessions according the the needs of their students, and flexible residencies are set up according to the needs of each music department. WCM artists can travel to the schools for one–day sessions over the course of a school year, for example, or they can come as needed for shorter terms. The Project has included intense coaching with school chamber music groups; individual lessons to supplement private school lessons on their instruments, and assisting directors by playing side–by–side with students in various ensembles.
Since the 2006–07 school year, WCM’s work with public school students has grown to encompass cross–curriculum Arts in Education projects. Funding for this important work has come from Arts Partners Challenge Grants, a New York State Council on the Arts Local Capacity Building Initiative of its Arts in Education Program, administered through ArtsWestchester.
If you would like to explore how to bring our professional musicians and coaching programs to your school, E-mail WCM’s Artistic Director, Judith Pearce.
COLLABORATION & LEARNING: DEMOCRACY IN ACTION
For three days in early November 2010, the minds and imaginations of roughly 200 Sullivan County junior high and high school students were fueled by art, literature, music and history in a ground-breaking collaboration between Weekend of Chamber Music, Inc., Livingston Manor Central School and the Catskill Art Society. Read more about the project here or visit us on Facebook at WCMconcerts. These field trips comprised Part 3 of WCM’s “Music in America” series, and were filmed by Dana Duke: click here to watch the video. The winners of the concurrent 'Utopia Essay Contest' were announced in February 2011: click here to read the results.
WCM SCHOLARSHIPS
The Stephen Rovitz Chamber Music Scholarship
The Stephen Rovitz Chamber Music Scholarship was established by the Weekend of Chamber Music in 2003 to honor former Monticello Central School Music Director Rovitz for his 33-year contribution to the district on his retirement. The scholarship is given each year to assist an MHS senior who participates in the chamber music Artist Coaching Project, who plans to pursue music after high school, and who writes an essay.
Past recipients of the $500 scholarship are:
Casey Berson, oboist – 2003
Tyler Laufersweiler, piano – 2004
Taryn Lounsbury, violinist – 2005
Matthew Rodriguez, trumpet/composer – 2006
Tanisha Gray, violinist - 2007
Rebecca Perlman, violinist - 2008 Mary Setren, flute & Daria Coney, violin – 2009
Marina Lombardi, soprano/violinist - 2010 Ruby Hong, piano - 2011
The WCM Artist Coaching Project’s performing artists collaborate each year with school music teachers, providing intensive student coaching for their bands, orchestras, chamber music ensembles and in private lessons. WCM artists work in conjunction with teachers to establish sessions according the the needs of their students, and flexible residencies are set up according to the needs of each music department. WCM artists can travel to the schools for one–day sessions over the course of a school year, for example, or they can come as needed for shorter terms. The Project has included intense coaching with school chamber music groups; individual lessons to supplement private school lessons on their instruments, and assisting directors by playing side–by–side with students in various ensembles.
Since the 2006–07 school year, WCM’s work with public school students has grown to encompass cross–curriculum Arts in Education projects. Funding for this important work has come from Arts Partners Challenge Grants, a New York State Council on the Arts Local Capacity Building Initiative of its Arts in Education Program, administered through ArtsWestchester.
If you would like to explore how to bring our professional musicians and coaching programs to your school, 