Clarion Collegium Week

Launched in 2008, in partnership with the New York Collegium, Clarion Collegium Week (CCW) is the nation’s only program assembling music students of all ages as well as young professionals from all over the United States to lear about the art and techniques of Baroque music and historical performance. The program now offers two tiers of classes, the first for musicians of college age and older, and the second, parallel tier for gifted younger musicians from New York’s high schools and middle schools, with priority given to those from public schools.

In a week of immersion into 18th-century music, students participate in master classes—on string, wind, brass, and keyboard instruments, and voice—with some of the world’s foremost Early Music specialists. The Week focuses on one composer or movement and includes lectures and symposia with leading scholars on Baroque music. These programs are free and open to the public to familiarize and engage new audiences with the richness and brilliance of Baroque music.

CCW concludes with our students attending the full rehearsal of a featured work of the composer chosen for study that year: a masterwork that exemplifies the style and techniques that have been studied in the classes. The production features the Clarion Orchestra, the Clarion Choir, and world-class soloists and includes many of the teachers of our classes and is conducted by Clarion's artistic director Steven Fox.

Since 2008, Clarion Collegium Week has welcomed students representing:

Colleges, Universities, and Conservatories:

       Bard College and Conservatory
       Boston University
       Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music
       Queens College, The Aaron Copland School of Music
       Curtis Institute of Music
       Dartmouth College
       Eastman School of Music
       Harvard University
       Ithaca College
       The Juilliard School
       The Manhattan School of Music
       Mannes College at The New School
       North Carolina University School of the Arts
       Oberlin College Conservatory of Music
       Stony Brook University School of Music
       Yale School of Music
       Yale University Department of Music

New York City High Schools and Middle Schools:

       Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music
       Fort Hamilton High School
       Frank Sinatra School
       Packer Collegiate Institute (private)
       Special Music School
	

Clarion looks forward to expanding our reach to more schools in future years.

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212.580.5700 info@clarionsociety.org.