Interlochen-financial aid for summer camp

noviceatoller
Sat, 12 Mar 2016 22:47:09 +0000

First off, congrats. Flute is so competitive, getting merit aid to orchestra at Interlochen is a nice compliment about your playing.

What does your private teacher think of the value of the program for you? My daughter’s private teacher (oboe) recommends other programs over Interlochen. Are you in a full orchestra year-round? If not, the value of this opportunity is high. If you are, I might suggest looking into a more specialized flute program. Jeffrey Khaner does a short program at Curtis that would be excellent. Marina Piccinini may have a summer program as well, which would be another amazing opportunity. Aaron Goldman of the NSO is a phenomenal musician and a great teacher. Not sure if he does anything outside of summer music institute at the Kennedy Center (which is a fellowship program you might look at for future years, but I’m sure they’re all full on flute for this summer.)

One major downside of Interlochen is that you typically won’t know who your private teacher will be ahead of time. I’ve heard from several musicians who have taught there during the summers that they were assigned too many lessons and felt they didn’t have enough time to develop relationships with their students.