COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING
INFORMATION FOR REGISTRATION:
Registration Deadline – June 1, 2016
Enclose the following payment of workshop fees:
Registration Fee (in addition to Piano Camp fee) . . . . .$25.00
Piano Camp fee . . . . . . . . . . . …………………. . . . .. . . .$250.00
A 10% discount will be given for students who achieved “OO” in District
and for groups of siblings.
Fees for Camp 2016
Total Enclosed: $____________
(Make checks payable to USA Department of Music)
For Office Use Only: Payment Received:__________________
Amount:______________Deposited:_______________
LATE REGISTRATION AFTER JUNE 1, 2016 WILL BE $300.00
REGISTRATION FORM
Detach and return with $25.00 registration fee
(non-refundable) to:
Robert Holm, Director • 2016 Piano Camp, University of South Alabama •
307 University Blvd. N. • Mobile, AL 36688 •
Phone: 251-460-6237
Email: rholm@southalabama.edu
Student Name:
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Age:______ (if not an adult student)
Grade for Fall 2015:_________________________________________________________
Street Address:____________________________________________________________
Email: ___________________________________________________________________
Department
of Music
Piano Camp:
Music of
American
Composers
City/State/Zip:_____________________________________________________________
Phone:____________________________Cell:___________________________________
Parent’s Name:____________________________________________________________
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Year(s) of Study: __________________________________________________________
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June 13-17, 2016
Daily - 9:00 am until 4:15 pm
WhatthisPianoCampfeaturingmusic
byAmericancomposersisallabout...
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e are excited to offer this workshop to pianists age 12
Talent
through
adult. The camp will focus on the music of American
composers, including Gottschalk, Joplin, Ives, Copland,
Bernstein and more. Daily classes will focus on technique,
theory, form and literature. Students will take mini-lessons
and master classes with nationally renowned experts and USA
piano faculty.
Students should bring 1 or 2 piano pieces to study during the
workshop. Pieces by American composers are recommended
but not required.
Registered students perform at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, June 17,
at the Student Recital in the Laidlaw Recital Hall. Admission is
free to the public.
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Classes on music theory and reading music
Classes on American Music
Special topics presentations by piano camp faculty
Daily private mini-lesson with faculty
Daily master class with faculty
Practice time
Students will need to bring a sack lunch with drink!!
No on-campus lodging is available.
Recitals by Piano Camp Faculty featuring a variety of American
composers will be given Monday through Thursday from 3:00
p.m. to 4:15 p.m. and are included in the workshop fee.
Dates
June 13
June14
July 15
July 16
July 17
Time
3:00 pm
3:00pm
3:00 pm
3:00 pm
3:00 pm
Performer
Dr. Robert Holm
Dr. Sharon Hudson
Dr. Laura Moore
Dr. James Helton
Student Recital
General admission tickets for faculty recitals will be sold
daily at the door of the Recital Hall in the Laidlaw
Performing Arts Center for $5.00.
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Piano Camp Faculty
Dr. James Helton, pianist, is a Professor of Music at Ball
State University, Indiana, where he teaches studio piano and
coordinates the accompanying program. An active
performer, Helton has been heard in many states throughout the
U.S. as recitalist, collaborator, and orchestra soloist working with
Pulitzer Prize winning composers George Crumb, William
Bolcom, Lucas Foss and Joseph Schwantner. At the University
of Illinois, Helton completed a D.M.A. in Piano Performance and
Literature with a cognate in Musicology and the Master of Music
degree in Piano Performance/Pedagogy. He is a member of
MTNA and currently serves on the Indiana state board. Dr. Robert Holm, a Steinway Artist since 2010, is
Professor of Music and head of the piano division at the
University of South Alabama, principal pianist for the Mobile
Symphony Orchestra and pianist at Dauphin Way Baptist
Church. Holm has appeared as soloist with the Johnson City
Symphony Orchestra, Alabaster (AL) Symphony, Mobile
Symphony Orchestra, Mobile Youth Symphony, and Mobile
Symphonic Pops. He has performed as soloist and
collaborative artist at Steinway Hall in London, at Carnegie
(Weill) Hall, at Lakehead University (Canada) and has given
solo programs extensively throughout the United States. At
USA, Holm has given 44 solo recitals including sonata cycles
by Mozart and Beethoven and over 200 collaborative recitals.
Dr. Sharon Hudson joined the University of Mobile music
faculty in 2010, where she teaches piano and theory and taught
previously at the University of South Alabama and at Brescia
University (KY). She received her MM and DMA degrees from
the University of Illinois, where she was awarded teaching,
research, and accompanying assistantships. There, she won
the 21st Century Piano Commission contest in 2002 and played
frequently with the New Music Ensemble. An avid performer of
new music, recent performances have included Schoenberg’s
Pierrot Lunaire with Mihaela Buhaiciuc, songs of Poulenc and
Larsen with Kathryn Hedlund. and Antheil’s Ballet mécanique
with the U of I Percussion Ensemble.
Dr. Laura Moore received her MM in Piano Performance
from the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore, Maryland, where she studied with Robert Weirich. She
pursued additional training in collaborative piano with Andrew
Harley, Benton Hess, and James Douglass at the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro, where she earned her DMA in
Choral Conducting. Moore is active as a collaborative pianist,
having served as staff accompanist at regional Metropolitan
Opera and NATS auditions, and performing in faculty and student
recitals at the University of South Alabama. Since 2008, she has
served as Director of Choral Activities at USA.