WELCOME TO NYSMF'S BLOG!

Hello there everyone! Welcome to the brand-new NYSMF Blog, where you'll find regularly irregular posts about the finest new music camp in the land, the New York Summer Music Festival NYSMF.

My name is Keisuke Hoashi, the NYSMF Director of Communications, as well as the person in charge of our wildly unique Musical Theatre program. (More on that later. It'll be worth the wait.)

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NYSMF is a brand new summer music festival / band camp / music festival, being held this summer of 2006 between JUNE 25 and AUGUST 5, 2006. All young musicians ages 10 though 25 are welcome to come.

We offer all the expected great stuff you've come to expect in your band camp: three orchestras; three bands/wind ensembles; a half-dozen jazz ensembles; and a bunch of choirs, ranging in levels from fun-loving beginners to equally fun-loving professionals. Playing in these groups every day will advance your own playing by unbelievable leaps and bounds -- there's nothing like playing alongside other talented musicians to make you even better!

We also offer many programs totally unique to NYSMF. For example:

• COMPOSITION
  Any student can apply to be part of this program, directed by Resident Composer David Ludwig. You'll learn things about writing music that even graduate programs don't offer, working side by side with David as you work on your own composition to be performed by members of the outstanding NYSMF faculty. At the end of the workshop session, you'll get an excellent recording of the performance!
• ORIGINAL MUSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOP
  
  "Big Deal," you may scoff, "I've suffered through tons of lame musical theatre in my high school, what's so great about THIS program at NYSMF?"
  
  Well, my friend, at NYSMF:
  
  1. you work with a real live professional Hollywood actor, Keisuke Hoashi.
     
  2. He'll teach you the basics of writing your own original songs, lyrics, skits, sketch comedy, and even full plays.
     
  3. The NYSMF Musical Theatre staff will help you create your own original music
     
  4. You'll have opportunities not only to write and act, but to direct, choreograph, stage manage, every backstage and front-stage aspect of producing Musical Theatre
     
  5. Your original work will be part of a world-premiere ORIGINAL MUSICAL THEATRE PRODUCTION -- a brand-new show every two weeks, entirely written and created by you and your student peers.
     
  
  
• VISITING ARTISTS PROGRAM
  
  You not only get to see legends like John Patitucci and Aaron Rosand play live (and for FREE), you get to attend Master Classes with these luminaries (for FREE), talk and question them about life as a professional musician (for FREE), and you may even take a private lesson with them (not for free, but you can't have everything). This is really a chance of a lifetime for a young musician!
  
• FILMMAKING PROGRAM
  
  You're not dreaming. We really DO offer a filmmaking program, where you will work with a small team of fellow students to write, film, edit, and produce a 5-minute film to be screened every two weeks! Under the direction of Keisuke Hoashi, you'll learn all the basics that are normally reserved for incredibly rich film school students, and really put them to use.
  

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Sound good? Click here to visit our website at http://www.nysmf.org, and fill out an application today! We look forward to seeing you at camp this summer -- and keep visiting here to read all the latest NYSMF news all semester long!

-- Keisuke