MYA Chamber Music Program Placement Questionnaire

MYA prides itself in offering the most comprehensive, yet fully individual and personalized, Chamber Music Program possible for our students. Very few programs in the nation are as large as MYA and no other youth program has experienced the competitive success that MYA has at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition over the past fourteen years - both indicators of the quality that MYA offers our students.

All of MYA’s Symphony and Concert Orchestra members must be available for placement in MYA’s Chamber Music Program. When requested, every attempt is made to place interested Prep and Cadet Orchestra students as well. In addition, some students audition to be considered just for the Chamber Music Program.

Students can be placed in any one of four possible Chamber Music Program options:

  1. Placement in Chamber Music Ensemble - trios, quartets, quintets, sextets, septets or octets. Often this is what we traditionally think of as chamber music but it is not the only form of chamber music. There are two expectation levels of Ensemble Chamber Music, Regular and Advanced:
    Regular:
    • prepare music outside of rehearsals
    • perform on a minimum of one Sunday Soirees per semester
    • in the event that a student must be absent from their chamber music coaching, they are expected to find someone to substitute for them
    Advanced: All of the above plus:
    • commit to rehearsing with their ensemble at least one hour each week
    • possibly participation in chamber music competitions
    • perform on a minimum of two Sunday Soirees per semester
  2. Placement in Sonata Class. Sonata Class is a wonderful opportunity for 3-5 students to meet with a coach/pianist and discuss sonata form while working on a sonata piece of their choosing, usually selected in consultation with the student’s private teacher, and performed on a special Sonata Class recital each semester. Sonatas are considered chamber music because there is much more “interplay” between the piano and solo part than between the solo and orchestral part as in a concerto. Also please note that the sonata can be for any instrument so the Sonata Class can be for mixed instruments (e.g. violin, oboe, trumpet, tuba).
  3. Placement in Technique/Performance Classes (such as Double Bass Class). We are planning on offering additional classes this coming fall.
  4. OPERA SCENES: Please note that this will be a new offering for MYA’s Chamber Music Program! It will meet outside of Chorale time and will have a separate tuition charged similar to Chamber Music tuition. Students will be combined into small groupings (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) to sing opera scenes and coached with emphasis on singing, not acting.

Expectations for all of the above placements are similar as students should attend all coachings and rehearsals as well as prepare their music ahead of time.

Grouping students is one of the most important responsibilities we have at MYA. We consider ability, age, interest and, of course, instrument as well as personality match but are all too often “derailed” by schedule conflicts. So please consider that, by you being flexible, we might have more opportunity to place you in a more appropriate group for you.

Please CHECK any day and time below you might be available to be coached at MYA:

Saturday (strings, winds, brass)
8:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
12:00 noon
1:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.

Strings/Voice Sunday:
1:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.

Monday/Strings:
4:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.

Tuesday/Strings/Winds:
4:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.

Wednesday/Strings:
4:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.

Thursday/Strings/Winds:
4:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.

In addition to my weekly coaching I would like to be in a group that:


I am interested in performing early music chamber music one semester

I am interested doing Sonata Class

I would like to be in a chamber music ensemble that doesn't have performance expectations or very few expectations.

If you have been part of MYA’s Chamber Music Program 2007-08, please answer the following questions:

Chamber music at MYA is:




This year, I feel:



Next year, ideally I would like to:



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Preferred E-mail:
Grade:
Instrument:

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