Songs of Summer

Students Ages 8-11

• Monday, June 19 - Friday, June 23

• 1:30 - 4:30 pm

• Friday Concert @ 7:00 pm

• $170

Students Ages 12-18

• Monday, June 19 - Thursday, June 22

• 9:00 am - 12:30 pm

• Thursday Concert @ 7:00 pm

• $170

Location

The Master’s University Department of Music

Staff

Coordinator/Director: Sarah Dixon, M.M. {TMU Voice Faculty}\ Beginning Camp & Choir Director: Megan Dixon, M.M. {Multnomah University Music Faculty, TMU Graduate}\ Accompanist & Choir Director: Susi Johnson {Santa Clarita Christian School Choral Director, TMU Graduate} \ Theory Teacher: Kellie Cunningham, M.M. {TMU Piano Faculty}\ Choir Accompanist: Tiffany Gibb {Music Teacher, TMU Graduate}\ Improv Teachers: Tricia Hulet, M.A. {TMU Theatre Arts Director} & James Phillipps {TMU Theatre Arts Asst. Director}\ Camp Assistant: Emily Mack {Songs of Summer Alum}

Cost

• $170

• Payments are non-refundable.

Register

REGISTER HERE

Each student is required to submit the sheet music for one song that he/she should have memorized to perform during the final concert. Please see “Song Choice Standards” below.

Join us for this fun and beneficial week for all aspiring young singers!

Scholarships {Brenda Dixon Memorial}

Due to the generosity of several individuals’ gifts in honor of our camp accompanist from past years, Brenda Dixon, four scholarships (of $85) are available to this year’s attendees. If you are interested in being considered for a camp scholarship, please have students write a one-page essay describing the way in which they forsee Songs of Summer enriching their involvement in music this coming year. Essays must be emailed to songsofsummer@masters.edu no later than June 5th, and recipients will be notified by June 12th. The amount of the scholarship will be refunded from the initial cost.

Daily Schedule Includes:

• Voice Class & Diction

• Improvisation & Acting

• Individual Voice Instruction

• Performance Techniques

• Music History & Theory

• Ensemble Rehearsal

Song Choice Standards

Suggested song books are listed below with age-appropriate songs for each camp. Song books may be purchased through the links below or individual titles below may be purchased from musicnotes.com.

Students Ages 8-11

• Broadway Songs for Kids

  • I Just Can’t Wait to Be King

  • Tomorrow

  • Wendy

  • Maybe

  • Electricity

  • Castle on a Cloud

  • Dites-moi (Tell Me Why)

  • Do-re-mi

  • Gary, Indiana

  • I Whistle a Happy Tune

  • I Won’t Grow Up

  • It’s the Hard-Knock Life

  • Little Lamb

  • The Lonely Goatherd

  • The Perfect Nanny

  • So Long, Farewell

  • Where is Love?

  • You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile

• Broadway Presents! Kids’ Musical Theatre Anthology

  • All I Do is Dream of You

  • Be Kind to Your Parents

  • Consider Yourself

  • Truly Scrumptious

  • The Girl I Mean to Be

  • Good Morning

  • Heart

  • I Gotta Crow

  • I Just Can’t Wait to Be King

  • I Want it Now

  • It’s Possible

  • Part of Your World

  • Pure Imagination

  • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

  • Wouldn’t It Be Loverly

• Disney Collected Kids’ Solos

  • Once Upon a Dream

  • Can You Feel the Love

  • Beauty and the Beast

  • You’ve Got a Friend in Me

  • God Help the Outcasts

  • Reflection

  • The Bare Necessities

  • Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo

  • Candle On the Water

  • Chim Chim Cher-ee

  • A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes

  • Feed the Birds

  • I’ve Got No Strings

  • It’s a Small World

  • Les Poissons

  • Let’s Go Fly a Kite

  • The Lord is Good to Me

  • Love is a Song

  • Never Smile at a Crocodile

  • The Perfect Nanny

  • The Second Star to the Right

  • So This is Love

  • Some Day My Prince Will Come

  • When You Wish Upon a Star

  • A Whole New World

  • Zip-a-dee-doo-dah

• Church Solos for Kids

  • I’m in the Lord’s Army

  • Zacchaeus

  • Amazing Grace

  • Jesus Loves the Little Children

  • Just As I Am

  • Oh, How I Love Jesus

  • This Little Light of Mine

  • Jesus Loves Me

  • Trust and Obey

  • Down in My Heart

  • What a Friend We Have in Jesus

  • This is My Father’s World

  • I Would be True

  • Tell Me the Stories of Jesus

  • Jacob’s Ladder

Students Ages 12-18

May choose from any of the above or from the following list:

• Musical Theatre Anthology for Teens, Young Women’s or Young Men’s Editions

• Music for the Master Vocal Solo Collection, Sacred/Hymn Arrangements

• Easy Songs for the Beginning Soprano, Part I or II (also available for Alto, Tenor & Bass)

• First Book of Soprano Solos, Part I or II (also available for Alto, Tenor & Bass)

• 26 Italian Songs & Arias, High or Low Voice

Questions?

E-mail songsofsummer@masters.edu

TMU Piano Kids

About TMU Piano Kids

TMU Piano Kids is a laboratory teaching experience for college level pianists who are completing coursework in piano pedagogy. Beginning in January of odd-numbered years, children from our community who are approximately age seven participate weekly in both individual piano lessons and group piano classes at The Master’s University, under the instruction of college faculty and an assigned student teacher. Each qualifying child who applies for this program will be accepted pending numbers of student teachers.

• Children attend a 45-minute, weekly individual lesson (with a TMU student teacher) scheduled between the TMC student and the Piano Kid’s parents. Lessons focus on studying piano pieces, building proper technique, and reinforcing musical concepts.

• Children also attend a 45-minute, weekly group class (led by TMU faculty and students) scheduled from 5:45-6:30 on Thursdays throughout each semester. Classes focus on music theory games & activities, music history, performance, improvisation and other creative music making. This unique class facilitates learning music in an interactive context and is one of the primary distinctives of the piano pedagogy program at TMU. It supplements piano instruction in a way that is often not found in the private piano studio.

Schedule:

TMU Piano Kids consists of three consecutive 12-week sessions, beginning in January of odd-numbered years:

• Jan – May

• Sep – Dec

• Jan – May

Applying for TMU Piano Kids is a commitment to participating in all three semesters of piano study, including both weekly lessons and classes as well as daily practice at home. A more detailed schedule will be distributed at the beginning of each semester.

Tuition:

$200 per child, per semester, to be paid at the beginning of each session.

Materials:

• It is crucial that each student have an instrument at home on which to practice piano daily. This must be provided by the parent.

• Each child will be required to purchase a standard beginning piano method, more details to be given at registration.

For further information or to apply for the program, email Prof. Kellie Cunningham at kcunningham@masters.edu