INTERLOCHEN — Interlochen Arts Academy dance students made Interlochen history this week as the first students to pirouette, plié, and soar through the air in the new Dance Center at
Interlochen Arts Camp to continue its 94th season in person at reduced capacity; virtual programs available from Interlochen Online
Interlochen Arts Camp to continue its 94th season in person at reduced capacity; virtual programs available from Interlochen Online
Northern Michigan’s world-renowned multidisciplinary arts camp will take place in person this summer with 50% fewer students and proven protocols to limit the transmission of COVID-19.
Building on its remarkable success last summer, Interlochen Online will offer two three-week virtual summer sessions for students in grades 2-12 in music, theatre, dance, creative writing, visual arts, film, and interdisciplinary arts.
With the health and safety of the Interlochen Arts Camp community as its first priority, Interlochen Center for the Arts announced today that Arts Camp 2021 will operate at reduced capacity this summer, with protocols to limit the transmission of COVID-19. For students seeking a virtual arts education ex
Performing arts students continue to overcome pandemic hurdles in a big, complicated way.
The Bloomington High School Chamber Orchestra has performed a chorus from “Judas Maccabeaus” by George Friedrich Handel remotely, under direction from orchestra teacher Caleb Mackinder.
Mackinder carefully selected the piece, saying he had to find a piece that could harmonize with the fear of trying something new.
“Because we’ve never done anything like this before. I’ve never taught like this and they’ve never played like this, so I wanted it to be something simple,” said Mackinder.
The video on Facebook features a collage of high school students playing stringed instruments like the violin and cello.
2021 Sam Pitcher Memorial Scholarship Recipients
Sunday PM (SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - The Sam Pitcher Memorial Scholarship Fund earlier this month announced the two Ketchikan students selected to receive 2021 Sam Pitcher Music Scholarships. The students are 7th grader Elaina Etten and 8th grader Myleigh Sambrano. They each will receive $700 to attend Sitka Fine Arts Camp.
Elaina Etten is a vocalist who also plays the ukulele. In addition to singing in the school choir, she has performed at The Monthly Grind and with First City Players in Jazz Cabaret. Elaina has always loved to sing and is also interested in writing music. She looks forward to getting additional professional advice, and more practice at SFAC. Elaina hopes to sing professionally some day. She is the daughter of Jennifer and Rusty Etten.
Credit Interlochen Center for the Arts
Founded in 1993, the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation seeks to help people in many ways.
The Foundation not only offers grants to support those who need medical and dental care, but it also regularly awards scholarships to music students.
The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Scholarship has supported dozens of Interlochen Arts Camp and Academy students over the past two decades.
On today s program, we talk with four of those scholarship recipients about their time at Interlochen and how their current careers embody values that Ella Fitzgerald held dear, such as education and equity.
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