Summer Intensive 2025 - STRINGS - Intermediate & Senior
Downtown - Victoria Conservatory of Music • 900 Johnson Street Victoria, BC, Canada V8V 3N4 Organized by Victoria Conservatory of MusicAbout this event
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Description
July 2-4 & 7-11, 2025 (no program July 5 and 6)
The Intermediate & Senior Strings Summer Intensive offers a dynamic and immersive 8-day program for dedicated young violinists, violists, cellists, and double bassists. With a strong emphasis on technique, musicianship, and artistic development, this program provides a fun and inspiring environment for students to refine their skills and elevate their playing. Led by experienced faculty and special guests, participants will engage in focused training designed to foster significant musical growth.
Intermediate: RCM Level 5+ | Senior: RCM Level 9+
Participants will take part daily in technique classes, masterclasses, a string orchestra, and chamber music. They will also receive a minimum of three individual lessons, and two coaching sessions with a professional pianist. Registrants must submit a repertoire list of recently studied and/or performed solo and chamber works. Intermediate & Senior Strings students should arrive with one solo work that is prepared for performance, and one that is a "work-in-progress". PDFs of chamber music will be sent a few weeks before the beginning of the Intensive.
Please note that a video of a current piece will be required* as part of the registration. This video is not an audition, it will be used to place students in chamber ensembles suitable to age and ability. Your registration is not complete until we have received this video. If you have difficulty uploading your video here, you may email it to gilker[at]vcm.bc.ca.
*Returning/current students of listed Conservatory SSI faculty are not required to provide a video.
Refund Policy
Program viability is based upon minimum enrollment. As such, there are no refunds available after the registration deadline (in most cases, four weeks prior to the program start date), except in cases of injury or illness (for which a doctor’s note is required), or other exceptional circumstance, such as family re-location.
Prior to the registration deadline, tuition may be refunded, pending the approval of the Artistic Director. Application and transaction fees are non-refundable. Withdrawal requests must be made in writing to the Victoria Conservatory of Music’s Registrar’s Office. Requests made after the completion of a given program will not be considered.
Location
VCM Downtown - various rooms
Instructor
Brian Yoon
Müge Büyükçelen
Nancy DiNovo
Clayton Leung
Gwen Thompson
Alexandra Lee
Travis Short
Robert Holliston
Jennifer Mitchell