Release date: June 8, 2007
Kennesaw State offers high school music clinic
Contact: Cheryl Anderson Brown, Assistant Director of Public Relations
770-499-3417 or cbrown@kennesaw.edu
KENNESAW, Ga.—The Kennesaw State University Department of Music will offer its second annual music clinic for high school students in conjunction with the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra June 11-16 at Marietta First United Methodist Church in Marietta. The clinic offers a comprehensive music experience for student instrumentalist, pianists and singers.
Enrollment in the 2007 Clinic has grown by 20 percent since the inaugural year in 2006. Students will interact with 22 members of Kennesaw State’s , and six KSU music majors will serve as mentors to attendees. include Michael Alexander, music director of the Cobb Symphony Orchestra and director of orchestras at KSU, and musicians from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Cobb Symphony and Atlanta Opera Orchestra.
Students will perform in large and small ensembles, attend master classes, and study music theory, music history and conducting. Students also will receive daily individual lessons. The week culminates with student chamber music performances on Friday, June 15 and large ensemble performances on Saturday, June 16. Rising seniors who participate in the clinic will be considered for music scholarships at Kennesaw State.
“Michael Alexander and our applied music are building the relationships necessary to make our music clinic thrive for area students,” said Peter Witte, chair of the KSU Department of Music. “As a result of the KSU Summer Music Clinic, our make music with talented students from our local schools. It’s another way the KSU College of the Arts connects with our community.”
For more information about the clinic, visit the music department’s website at www.kennesaw.edu/music.
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A member of the 35-unit University System of Georgia, Kennesaw State University is a comprehensive‚ residential institution with a growing student population approaching 20‚000 from 132 countries. The third largest state university in Georgia‚ Kennesaw State offers more than 60 graduate and undergraduate degrees‚ including a new Doctorate of Education in Leadership.
The KSU College of the Arts is one of only four Georgia institutions to have achieved full national accreditation for all of its arts programs.