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Popular Music Performance Summer Program for Grades 6-8
Why Study Popular Music Performance
Get immersed in the energetic and exciting world of popular music styles. During your time at Interlochen, you will be placed into small collaborative groups learning how to rehearse, create chord charts, find the right key for your voice, and utilize various methods of arranging. You'll then play that music during a live concert in front of your fellow peers.
What You'll Learn
You will spend your days working and performing together in various groups. In addition to participating in daily jam sessions, you will also learn about:
- Ear-training
- Style identification and history
- Form
- Songwriting with your group
- Practice efficiency
- Communicating musical ideas
- Music business
Program Highlights
Performance Opportunities
During your time at Arts Camp, you will write and develop original work alongside your bandmates. At the end of the session, faculty will choose one of your original songs to perform at the end-of-session concert. Students also have the opportunity to perform for each other in closed studio sessions.
The Music Center
Our state-of-the-art 60,000 square-foot music facility has two 3,500 square-foot rehearsal halls, two recording studios which allow for rehearsal and performance recordings in multiple venues on campus with multiple ensemble and practice rooms, and individual faculty teaching studios. Learn more about The Music Center.
Behind the Popular Music Performance
Dedicated young musicians come together from around the world to play an amazing concert at the end of their Interlochen Arts Camp session. Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the program.
Dive deeper into Interlochen Arts Camp with a free digital viewbook
In our free informational booklet, you'll learn more about:
- Each of our seven arts areas
- Various programs
- Renowned faculty
- A day in the life of a student
- How to apply and financial aid information
- And more