DATES: Thursday, July 21, 2016 (all students check in) - Sunday August 14, 2016 (all students check out)
LOCATION: Walnut Hill School, 12 Highland St., Natick, MA 01760. About 15 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts. www.WalnutHillArts.org

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION
April 10, 2016
Submit with a non-refundable application fee of US$70.
Late application will be considered depending upon space availability.

AGE AND ENROLLMENT:
Age 14 or above. Total enrollment 45 students. No upper age limit. Special arrangement is required for applicant younger than 13.

PROGRAM:

• Two to Three private lessons per week for piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, clarinet, oboe, saxophone, trombone,  composition, and others (upon request).
• Chamber Ensembles
• Orchestral Performances
• Master Classes and Workshops
• Stage presentation workshop
• Concerts with faculty members and students
• Attending concert at Tanglewood Music Center, visiting Norman Rockwell Museum, and shopping
• Visits to New England Conservatory, Harvard University, Museum of Fine Arts, and other historical sites in the metropolitan Boston area
• English is the official language. Chinese translator available for the first week only if needed

AUDITION
Live audition and/or DVD/YouTube audition is required for all applicants except students recommended by faculty members. Returning students should contact Director Dr. Catherine Tan Chan 譚嘉陵 for waving the audition. Application forms and fees are required for all applicants including returning students. Each applicant should prepare at least two contrasting pieces or two contrasting movements of the same piece of his/her own choice that will represent his/her musical level and achievement. Live audition is required for Taiwan and China. DVD/YouTube audition is required for US, Canada, and other countries.

Audition and Contact:
Taiwan:
Applicants from Taiwan will be auditioned in Taipei by Professors 黃維明, 林明慧, 鍾曉青.  The exact date and location will be arranged by Mrs. Meir Chen陳美娥Tel:+886 2 22302162,  Fax: +886 2 22306222, Mobile: 886-910-381-528, Email: meir.chen88@gmail.com.

China:
Ameri-China International Music Foundation 美华国际音乐基金会 
   C/o Ms. Chu-Fang Huang 黃楚芳
   湖北武汉巿硚口区崇仁路, 集贤书香苑1-1-1501  
Phone: +86 186-2780-3778 , Text: +86-137-2019-1407 , Email:  chufhuang@me.com
US, Canada and other countries:
Applicants should submit a recently prepared DVD or YouTube to the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts, 3 Partridge Lane, Lincoln, MA 01773.  Foundation@ChinesePerformingArts.net. It will be presented to faculty members for evaluation.

Piano Concerto Competition:
Every year we select one pianist to perform a concerto concert. This year 2016, it will be the piano concerto of  Edvard Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op.16  with Mercury Orchestra on Saturday, 8/12/2016, 8 pm, at Harvard Sanders Theatre. We encourage all piano students to try it out.  The competition will be held on Friday, July 29, 2016, 2 pm (To Be Comfirmed) before faculty members, invited jury, and Channing Yu, conductor of Mercury Orchestra. Here is a list of concerti performed since 1996. Lang Lang, Yeol-Eum Son, Max Tan, Eric Lu, among others have played. http://www.chineseperformingarts.net/contents/festival/index-LSO.htm

TUITION:
There is a non-refundable application fee of US $70 for each application. The tuition is US $3,000 per student that covers private and chamber lessons, room, meals, and fees to all activities during the festival period. Individual travel expenses to and from the music festival are not included.
Financial Aid ranging from US $500 to $1,000 will be awarded to qualified applicants on financially needed basis. Students interested in financial aid must include a letter of request with the application. Tax-return documents for annual household income and statement of financial situation are required for evaluation. Returning students (attended the camp at least twice and with English fluency) could apply to be the Assistant to the Director with tuition waiver and still receive all the benefit of a regular student. Full tuition payment is due in two weeks after audition.  No refund for cancellation after June 1, 2016.

Faculty Members 2016 
alphabetically, a partial list
Lynn Chang 張萬鈞, music director

Piano

Bruce Brubaker
New England Conservatory, Chairman piano department

Wha Kyung Byun, Piano Master Class
New England Conservatory

Pi-Hsien Chen 陳必先
Hochschule fur Musik Freiburg

Ya-Fei Chuang 莊雅斐
Boston Conservatory
New England Conservatory Preparatory

Alexander Korsantia
New England Conservatory

Meng-Chieh Liu 劉孟捷
New England Conservatory
Curtis Institute of Music

Victor Rosenbaum
New England Conservatory
Mannes School of Music

Russell Sherman, Piano Master Class
Distinguished Artist-in-residence of New England Conservatory

Minsoo Sohn
Korean National University of Arts

Violin

James Buswell

Lynn Chang 張萬鈞
Boston Conservatory
New England Conservatory Preparatory
Boston University
MIT

Nai-Yuan Hu 胡乃元

Nicholas Kitchen
New England Conservatory
Borromeo String Quartet

Magdalena Richter
New England Conservatory Preparatory Chair String Department
Director String and Chamber Orchestra of Rivers School Conservatory

Kristopher Tong
New England Conservatory
Borromeo String Quartet

Viola

Scott Lee
University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Conservatory

Mai Motobuchi
New England Conservatory, Borromeo String Quartet

Cello

Laurence Lesser, Cello Master Class
President Emeritus, New England Conservatory

Carol Ou 歐逸青
New England Conservatory Preparatory

Sam Ou
New England Conservatory Preparatory

Bion Tsang 章雨亭 (www.biontsang.com)
University of Texas at Austin

Composition

Yang Yong 楊勇
Beijing Central Conservatory of Music

Chamber Music and Composition Master Class

Yehudi Wyner
2006 Pulitzer Prize for Music

Clarinet

Thomas Hill
Longy School of Music, Boston Chamber Music Society

Flute

Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin
Tufts and MIT

Saxophone

Kenneth Radnofsky
New England Conservatory, Boston Conservatory, Boston University, Longy School of Music

Tai Chi

Tai-Chun Pan, 潘台春

Other faculty members who have taught in the previous years:

Piano: David Deveau, (the late) Anthony di Bonaventura, (the late) Luise Vosgerchian, (the late) T. Krafchenko, Cheng-Zong Yin 殷承宗, Robert Levin, Sylvia Chambless, Vivian Weilerstein, Hung-Kuan Chen 陳宏寬, Tema Blackstone
Violin: (the late) Masuko Ushioda, (the late) Marylou Speaker Churchill, Donald Weilerstein
Viola: Gillian Rogell
Cello: Michael Bonner, Mark Churchill
Double bass: Edwin Barker, DaXun Zhang 張達尋, Pascale Delache-Feldman
French horn: Neil DeLand
Oboe: Kathy Lord
Bassoon: Tracy McGinnis
Trombone: Brian L. Diehl
Flute: Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Jean DeMart
Voice: Maxwell Li, Guping Deng鄧桂萍, Patty Thom, Ree-Ven Wang王麗文
Composition: Samuel Headrick, Shih-Huei Chen陳士惠
Clarinet: David Samour
Percussion/Marimba: Pius Cheung, Robert Schulz
Dulcimer: Ping Li
Erhu: Zhan-Tao Lin

This program is made possible by the donation from the general public, and the support from The Tan Family Cultural Fund. Photos, updated concert activities and other information are online at: www.ChinesePerformingArts.net