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For students with a strong interest in chamber music, NEC Prep is excited for the third year of the Chamber Music Intensive Performance Seminar (CHIPS)! CHIPS offers select advanced students an in-depth chamber music immersion experience, with an emphasis on enhancing chamber music skills and performance practice at a high artistic level. Led by faculty member Merry Peckham, accepted students will be placed into a string quartet or piano trio, and assigned repertoire to study over the year.
Significant emphasis will be placed on performance; groups will have the opportunity to perform in recitals at NEC and in the community as well as potential international performance opportunities. Groups will meet for regular coachings on Saturdays. The program will also include several special guest artist masterclasses during the year; visiting guests for 2022-2023 will be announced prior to the start of the academic year.
Given the intensity of this program, attendance at all CHIPS events is required. Interested violinists, violists, cellists, and pianists between the ages of 13 and 18 years old are encouraged to apply. Auditions are held in the spring for the following school year.
Course Sub-Category
Chamber Music
Instructor
Merry Peckham
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