Calling all young adventurers in grades K-5! Get ready to embark on an epic musical journey at Video Game Music Camp. Discover the captivating melodies and rhythms that have enchanted gamers for over 30 years on a variety of platforms, from Atari and Nintendo to PlayStation and iPad. Unleash your creativity as you explore composers, identify common themes, and learn about the revolutionary games that pushed video game music and sound to new limits.

Our Video Game Music Camp is a fun-filled week of music-making inspired by popular video game themes, melodies and sound effects. Students will sing, drum, and play games that promote musical skills and concepts. While we won't spend the week playing video games, the musical themes and sound scapes from video games will be our focus repertoire for group projects and private lessons alike. Learn themes from the Legends of Zelda, use acoustic and digital sound banks to create sound effects for character action, write Simlish poetry, create original bumper music with peers and faculty. 

Join us for an immersive experience where you'll dive deep into the world of video game music. Interactive challenges and age-appropriate content and daily schedule ensure a perfect blend of learning and fun. Become a musical hero in the world of video games!  Camp includes private lesson on the instrument of choice.  Beginners and more experienced students welcome.

Contemporary Music Performance Workshop (CMP Workshop) and Studio 5 Production Workshop  

• Session 1, CMP Workshop all day, CMC L5P: June 03-07 
• Session 2,CMP Workshop all day, CMC L5P:  June 10-14
  
  SHOWCASE 1: June 14
  
  
• Session 3, CMP Workshop mornings, Studio 5 afternoons, CMC L5P: June 17-21
• Session 4, CMP Workshop mornings, Studio 5 afternoons, CMC L5P: June 24-28
  
  SHOWCASE 2: June 28 
  
  
• Session 5, CMP Workshop mornings, Studio 5 afternoons, CMC L5P: July 8-12
• Session 6, CMP Workshop mornings, Studio 5 afternoons, CMC L5P: July 15-19
• Session 7, CMP Workshop mornings, Studio 5 afternoons, CMC L5P: July 22-26
  
  SHOWCASE 3: July 26 - listening sessions and performances

All things piano. Classical, jazz, pop, rock, blues, the piano has occupied a central role in many styles of music since its invention by Bartolomeo Cristofori in Italy around the year 1700. It’s also been a focal point of musical education for American children since the mid 1800s.

CMC Atlanta Piano Camp provides beginners and more experienced players alike the opportunity to develop both playing skills and musical understanding and awareness. Through a mix of private lessons and group activities (singing, drumming, arts and crafts, theory games and projects), students will learn good technique, build their knowledge of the fundamentals of music, and tackle a couple of age and skill appropriate compositions. Piano Camp also includes introduction of historical repertoire (from virtuosic to famous pieces, like Fur Elise, that most piano students learn along the way), lessons in how the piano works, projects that introduce important composers for the instrument (from Muzio Clementi to Mozart, Chopin, to Thelonious Monk and Elton John), and live performances by CMC Atlanta Artist Resident Teachers.

For beginners, we gear the curriculum to laying a firm foundation to support playing and continued study after camp. For more experienced players, we introduce new solo and collaborative pieces, more advanced concepts, and teach improvisation, a skill overlooked in many piano studios. When it comes to improvisation, even experienced students mostly start from scratch when they come to our camp, and most students enjoy having this world of artistic expression opened for them in an encouraging setting. 

Students divided by age and skill level. Beginners and more experienced students welcome.

All things piano. Classical, jazz, pop, rock, blues, the piano has occupied a central role in many styles of music since its invention by Bartolomeo Cristofori in Italy around the year 1700. It’s also been a focal point of musical education for American children since the mid 1800s.

CMC Atlanta Piano Camp provides beginners and more experienced players alike the opportunity to develop both playing skills and musical understanding and awareness. Through a mix of private lessons and group activities (singing, drumming, arts and crafts, theory games and projects), students will learn good technique, build their knowledge of the fundamentals of music, and tackle a couple of age and skill appropriate compositions. Piano Camp also includes introduction of historical repertoire (from virtuosic to famous pieces, like Fur Elise, that most piano students learn along the way), lessons in how the piano works, projects that introduce important composers for the instrument (from Muzio Clementi to Mozart, Chopin, to Thelonious Monk and Elton John), and live performances by CMC Atlanta Artist Resident Teachers.

For beginners, we gear the curriculum to laying a firm foundation to support playing and continued study after camp. For more experienced players, we introduce new solo and collaborative pieces, more advanced concepts, and teach improvisation, a skill overlooked in many piano studios. When it comes to improvisation, even experienced students mostly start from scratch when they come to our camp, and most students enjoy having this world of artistic expression opened for them in an encouraging setting. 

Students divided by age and skill level. Beginners and more experienced students welcome.

Violinists, violists, and cellists, all are welcome. And since we group students by both age and skill level, the CMC Atlanta String Camp is open to beginners and more advanced players.

CMC Atlanta String Camp provides beginners and more experienced players alike the opportunity to develop both playing skills and their understanding of musical concepts. Through a mix of private lessons and group activities, students will learn good technique, build their knowledge of the fundamentals of music, and tackle a couple of age and skill appropriate compositions. Camp includes a variety of group activities like singing, drumming, theory drills and projects, and indoor and outdoor games. The curriculum incorporates a survey of historical repertoire (from simple compositions most children learn to virtuosic masterpieces), projects that introduce important composers and famous performers, and live performances by CMC Atlanta Artist Resident Teachers.  Our young musicians are also engaged by both traditional and more contemporary uses of string instruments in classical, jazz, rock, and folk music.

Campers take private lessons with CMC Atlanta faculty.  For beginners, we gear the curriculum to laying a firm foundation to support the potential for ongoing study after camp. For more experienced players, we introduce new solo and collaborative pieces, more advanced musical concepts, and teach improvisation, a skill overlooked in many studios. When it comes to improvisation, even experienced students mostly start from scratch when they come to our camp, and most students enjoy having this world of artistic expression opened for them in an encouraging setting.

All CMC Atlanta Day Camps for Kids are sensitive to developmental needs of children. While the students are immersed in the world of strings at the camp, there are breaks throughout the day, play time at nearby parks, and fun activities to provide an appropriate balance, especially for summer.

Contemporary Music Performance Workshop (CMP Workshop) and Studio 5 Production Workshop  

• Session 1, CMP Workshop all day, CMC L5P: June 03-07 
• Session 2,CMP Workshop all day, CMC L5P:  June 10-14
  
  SHOWCASE 1: June 14
  
  
• Session 3, CMP Workshop mornings, Studio 5 afternoons, CMC L5P: June 17-21
• Session 4, CMP Workshop mornings, Studio 5 afternoons, CMC L5P: June 24-28
  
  SHOWCASE 2: June 28 
  
  
• Session 5, CMP Workshop mornings, Studio 5 afternoons, CMC L5P: July 8-12
• Session 6, CMP Workshop mornings, Studio 5 afternoons, CMC L5P: July 15-19
• Session 7, CMP Workshop mornings, Studio 5 afternoons, CMC L5P: July 22-26
  
  SHOWCASE 3: July 26 - listening sessions and performances

The CMC Atlanta Strings Now Summer Workshop with Jenn Cornell will be held at our CMC Decatur location from Friday, July 26 through Sunday July 28, 2024.  Violinists, violists, cellists, and upright bassists, grades 7 and up, intermediate to advanced levels, are welcome to attend.  

The Strings Now Summer Workshop immerses student players in both solo and ensemble music making with peers and a faculty comprised of professional performers and educators.  What makes the Strings Now Workshop unique locally is our emphasis of current styles of string performance.  

We honor and draw from great historical traditions of string playing, but Strings Now introduces and emphasizes new aspects of string performance, aspects such as improvisation, amplification, use of effects pedals, looping and layering, and progressive techniques like power bowing.  Many students are interested in playing strings in the context of current styles of music or using modern technology to expand the expressive palate of their instrument, but many of those students do not have the opportunity to get started, let alone an opportunity to explore playfully.  The workshop provides a gateway for doing so.  For those students who have a background in new music performance practice, the camp provides the opportunity to work intensely with professional performers on our workshop faculty in what we'd consider the student's ongoing effort to cultivate their own authentic musical voice.     

Tuition Includes

• Private Instruction with professional performers and educators
• Ensemble/group (small, medium, and large) performance and coaching
• Solo repertoire coaching and accompaniment 
• The music, equipment and performance materials needed for a fun learning environment

Workshop Performance

• Sunday, July 28 2:00 pm @ CMC Decatur

Sample Schedule

• 8-9AM Drop Off/Arrival
• 9-9:45AM - Intro/Performance (Lead Instructor -Jenn Cornell will present a looping performance including an overview of her sound equipment, 6-String Electric Cello and multiple effects pedals and discuss her perspectives on how to find a unique voice of musical freedom within the structure of music and the use of technology.)
• 10-11- Extended Techniques Workshop (harmonics, color change/distortion, hammer on and pull offs, unconventional plucking, slides, power chords, and percussive techniques)
• 11:15AM Music Theory Basics/Ear Training (Overview of Scales, Key Signatures, Circle of Fifths, Chords and Intervals. Goal: to bring more awareness to how we listen to and perform music. Class will include listening exercises, descriptive writing exercises and creative drawing.)
• 12-1PM Lunch
• 1PM- Improv Basics (Pentatonic scale, 12-Bar Blues/Chord Progressions, Finding your voice)
• 2PM- Personal practice time of Extended Techniques and Improv with 12 part blues backing track (Student will need their own personal device for playing track from Youtube)
• 3PM- Pickup

Registration 

Please complete the online form here.  We will set up your account, invoice you and add the student to our roster.

After registering, to help with ensemble formation, placement, and planning, students will be prompted to send in an audio OR video recording of themselves performing 2 short contrasting (1 slow/lyrical, 1 technical) excerpts each about 1 minute in length. Ideally, the student will submit these excerpts via Youtube link; alternatively, we will create a portal for direct video submission. 

For more information about the Strings Now Workshop , please email Jenn@CMCAtlanta.com.

More information coming soon!

More information coming soon!