Welcome to Music In Summer!

Canadian Music Festival for Strings, Piano and Voice

Would you like to ...

• be technically and musically superior on your instrument?
• make music and jam with your friends?
• feel good about your music-making?
• be able to freely express yourselves?
• make people "feel good" when listening to you?
• study with some of the greatest musicians in the world?
• practice for 12 hours a day and feel like it is not enough and you need and want more?
• have so much food and then painfully realize that you are full, but still eat because it is soooo good?
• have that kind of feeling that you don't want this to end and will plan on having 8 reunions with all your new best friends when you get back?
• make jokes and a lifetime of memories with your friends?
• live with your friends for 11 days without your parents?
• singing, dancing and acting?
• playing soccer, basketball and bowling. How about lake cruising? Movies?
• perform for your parents on the final day and hear how great you are?
• meet students and teachers from around the world and become friends?

If you've answered "yes" to at least one of these questions then you definitely must go to the unforgettable JVL Summer Music Festival on July 5.

Welcome from the Music Director

It gives me immense pleasure to welcome you to the eleventh season of the JVL Summer School for Performing Arts. As you browse through these pages, you will discover the breadth of our musical offerings. Our Preparatory, Intermediate and Advanced Studies program is carefully designed to provide an enjoyable musical experience and a thorough musical training for those students who are at the onset of their musical journey through to students who will become the next generation of young performers. The course offers its participants a wonderful opportunity to combine their intensive music studies and concert performances with recreational activities. The aim of the SSPA is to develop an appreciation of music that will last through their lifetime and ability for them to receive greater enjoyment of a musical performance through that knowledge and understanding.

The program of the School will include instrumental and voice private lessons, master classes and workshops, an opera program, chamber music classes, orchestral and ensemble classes, concert performances, a Music Theatre program, solo performances with the SSPA orchestras and seminars, as well as the Piano Teacher Professional Development Program. Individual instruction is only one part of the JVL curriculum. By placing special emphasis on chamber music, JVL SSPA gives students the opportunity to work in small groups where their individual contributions can be appreciated and critiqued. Opportunities for performance are given to many chamber groups throughout the season. All that will help to create a rich tapestry of learning and exploration for children. JVL SSPA's remarkable faculty — gifted and creative master teachers and musicians dedicated to the fine art of teaching, support all of this musical activity.

This season we have prepared for you a very special program and activities that, without a doubt, will be the most memorable experience for all students and faculty.

And we certainly will continue using the facilities of Canadore College on Lake Nipissing in North Bay, Ontario, with large air-conditioned rehearsals spaces, our own Auditorium, very comfortable accommodation and excellent recreational facilities, and the food, as usual, promises to be something special.

These are the things that you must come to JVL SSPA to experience for yourself. I extend to you a warm welcome, and hope to see you at our Camp. Thank you for your interest in the JVL Summer School for Performing Arts.

Jacob Lakirovich, Director

Our Faculty in 2012