summer 2009 vocal studies program
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If you want to study music with a distinguished artist while intensively improving your English skills, this program is for you. In this five-week program, you will receive the same English instruction in grammar, composition, oral communication, reading, vocabulary, and study skills that students in our academic program do.
You will also study vocabulary for music and read music textbooks with your English teachers. In addition, you will participate in a vocal workshop once a week. The instructor of the workshop is a baritone and countertenor soloist, who has earned two Grammy Awards as a member of the world-renowned classical a cappella ensemble, Chanticleer. He is a faculty member at Sonoma State University and has acquired a reputation for his exceptional coaching expertise through numerous vocal and choral workshops.
Class enrollment for this program is limited to 10 students, ensuring maximum individual attention. Singers of all levels (including “not-yet singers”) are welcome. Optional private voice lessons could be arranged as requested. Classical concert fieldtrips in the San Francisco Bay area further enhance the program.
About the vocal instructor
Internationally recognized for his effortless countertenor voice, Christopher Fritzsche can be heard on well over a dozen recordings on Warner Classics’ Teldec label. From 1992 until 2003, Mr. Fritzsche performed with the world-renowned a cappella vocal ensemble, Chanticleer. In those 11 years he sang over 1000 concerts world-wide appearing with The New York Philharmonic, the Atlanta Symphony, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and he participated in and helped lead numerous choral and vocal workshops for singers of all levels. He has also appeared with the Grant Park Music Festival Orchestra in Chicago as soloist in Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and has earned two Grammy awards for the CD’s Colors of Love, and Lamentations and Praises by the celebrated British composer, Sir John Tavener. Mr. Fritzsche holds a bachelor of music degree from Sonoma State University.
Who should apply?
Vocal Studies Program is for you if you:- Want to study English as well as music
- Want to learn advanced vocal techniques from a first-rate artist
- Want to explore personal interests in music and vocal studies
- Want to test your interest in studying music in the US
- Want to improve your TOEFL score in order to study music in the US
Dates:
July 9 – August 13, 2009
Tuition:
$2, 375
Application:
If you have completed your secondary education, you are eligible to apply to this program. To process your application and send your I-20, we must have these five items on or before May 22, 2009:
- A completed application form
- Proof of high school graduation and official transcripts in English
- A copy of page 1 of your passport
- Official income statement or bank statement verifying availability of funds, minimum $3,700
- Two separate checks or money orders payable to SSU for U.S. $75 (a non-refundable application fee) and $1,187 (a non refundable deposit) or provide credit card information on application form
Send applications to:
SSALI
1801 East Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA 94928-3609
U.S.A.
Balance Due: July 9, 2009
Please Note: In case the enrollment of the program is 1, private lessons will be substituted for the group vocal workshop.
Contact our office for further information:
Sonoma State American Language Institute
1801 East Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928-3609 U.S.A.
Phone (707) 664-2742 / FAX (707) 664-2749
E-MAIL ssali@sonoma.edu
http://www.sonoma.edu/exed/ssali/