19 Days to NYSMF 2007!

Hello again everybody, Keisuke Hoashi here, your NYSMF Director of Communications and very busy working Hollywood actor. And it is now only 19 days until the start of what we've been waiting for all year long ... NYSMF 2007.

The numbers are even more exciting than last year. As of today, we have around 300 talented young musicians signed up, as well as over fifty faculty and Visiting Artists on our impressive roster. We have people coming from over 20 different states acros America, and a dozen different countries across the globe! Some nations represented include Norway, Korea, France, Russia, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, England, and Belize -- enough that we need a world map to locate them all.

The NYSMF program continues to expand from within, as well. In past years, our instructors have brainstormed, masterminded, and brought to life our most innovative and exciting programs, including:

• David Ludwig's Composition Program (in which students compose their own original works in just two weeks, and have them performed in concert);
  
• Keisuke Hoashi's Original Musical Theatre Workshop (students learn to create their own original show in only 12 days)
• Dr. Paul Cohen's Classical Saxophone Workshop
• The NYSMF/Yamaha Silent Electric Strings program, greatly facilitated by our violin faculty member Sean Neukom and cello faculty member Lauren Riley

This year, we are proud to announce the NYSMF International Flute Institute, headed by our own Bonnie Bokyung Kim. This exclusive program is open by audition to only 15 or so top flute players, and they will be enjoying six daily hours of private lessons and masterclasses, designed to push their skills well into the realm of wildly talented professionals.

I wasn't kidding when I said this was an exciting year! NYSMF ain't just plain ol' music camp -- as you have read for yourself, we're a heckuva lot more!

19 days. Excellent.