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Milwaukee
is home to the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Milwaukee
Ballet, the Florentine Opera Company, the Skylight Opera
Theatre, the Milwaukee Choral Artists, Present Music, and Hal Leonard
Corporation (the world's largest music publisher). Opportunities abound
for qualified students in area performance venues and organizations,
including a UWM apprenticeship program for singers with the Skylight
Opera Theatre. UWM also is proud of its outstanding partnership with
the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, with several of its members teaching
on campus as UWM performance studio faculty.
Several of the
Music Department’s collaborations serve younger
musicians: the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s ACE Program; Milwaukee
Children’s Choir and Milwaukee Youth Chorale; the Milwaukee
Youth Symphony Orchestra; and the String Academy of Wisconsin at
UWM.
The Milwaukee Children’s
Choir and The Milwaukee Youth Chorale
The mission of the Milwaukee Children's Choir is to give children
exceptional choral music instruction and performance opportunities
that foster
creativity, personal expression and social growth. The Milwaukee
Children's Choir makes a difference in the lives of children
and the greater Milwaukee
community by striving for continued excellence in choral music;
achieving artistic prominence locally and beyond; cultivating
diversity; reaching
out to children in communities underserved by the arts; collaborating
with other arts organizations; and by bringing recognition to
Milwaukee and its arts community.
The Milwaukee Children's
Choir, an organization of several choirs, provides a rich and rewarding
experience for
each child. The repertoire
is varied and is
drawn from the masters: Bach, Schubert, Britten, Vaughan-Williams, Kodály,
and Copland, but also music from all cultures, including popular, folk and
patriotic music. The Milwaukee Children's Choir is open to children of all
races, religions
and economic backgrounds. Financial assistance is available.
The success of
the Milwaukee Children's Choir is dependent, in large part, on the support
of music teachers and choral directors in the Milwaukee area.
MCC
singers should be leaders in their school music ensembles and are expected
to be active participants in their school choir if one is available. An
exception is made when the child must choose between the school's
instrumental and
vocal
music programs.
Concepts taught include: the elements of music (rhythm,
melody, harmony, dynamics, form, style); musical skills, including
singing, theory, sight-reading,
listening,
and analysis; vocal development to the fullest potential through posture,
breath, tone production and diction.
http://www.milwaukeechildrenschoir.org/
The Milwaukee Youth Chorale
Dr. Christopher W. Peterson, Director
Sharon Stosur, Accompanist
The Milwaukee Youth Chorale is for young
men and women entering grades 9 through 12. The ensemble rehearses
on the campus of UWM
on Tuesday
evenings in the Fine
Arts Music Building room 280 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Singers have previous
choral,
vocal or musical experience and are selected on the basis of audition.
The ensemble performs SATB literature of all types and emphasizes vocal
development,
music
literacy and college preparatory music theory skills. The MYC will
be a featured Demonstration Choir at the MENC National Convention
in April
2004
in Minneapolis,
MN. The group toured Italy in summer of 2004.
The Milwaukee Choral Artists
The Milwaukee Choral Artists was formed
in 1998 by a group of committed and talented women professional
singers from throughout the Milwaukee
metropolitan area, whose
goal is to present and promote choral and vocal music of the highest
quality unsurpassed both in Milwaukee and abroad. Hailed for its
imaginative programming,
the group is establishing itself quickly in the mainstream of professional
music making in Milwaukee, in the region, and nationally. A friend
to contemporary choral music, the ensemble has performed world premieres
of many of the
country’s
most esteemed living composers. Equally at home in early music, it
appeared with the Boston Camerata on Early Music Now’s 2001-2002
15th Anniversary Season opening concert. The ensemble was in invited
guest at the prestigious 2002 American
Choral Director’s Association convention in Des Moines. The
Milwaukee Choral Artists is featured on the recent Walton Music Company
promotional CD, joined
by other outstanding American professional choral ensembles. The
ensemble performs three regular season concerts each year at historic
venues throughout the Milwaukee
area. It is the featured guest at UWM’s annual “Celebration
of Women’s
Voices”.
www.milwaukeechoralartists.org
String Academy of Wisconsin
Founded in 1990, the String Academy of Wisconsin
(SAW) has already become one of this country's model schools, offering
students
between the ages
of 4 and
18 a comprehensive musical education with a focus on the violin,
viola or cello. SAW's summer workshops are attended by string
teachers from
across the United
States, Canada and Europe. The String Academy collaborates with
the UWM Department
of Music on their M.M. in String Pedagogy.
the
String Academy of Wisconsin
at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 11941
Milwaukee, WI 53211
highdee@uwm.edu
Call: 414-963-4729 Fax: 414-963-4760
www.stringacademyofwisconsin.org
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