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Large Ensemble for Adults

Finger Lakes Concert Band
Brian Story, Music Director
advanced level
Thursdays, 7:30–9:30 pm at Canandaigua Middle School
Comprised of adult instrumentalists from the Greater Finger Lakes community, the Finger Lakes Concert Band rehearses weekly and gives several concerts per year featuring a wide variety of music ranging from standard wind band literature and orchestral transcriptions to music of the jazz and pop idioms. Auditions are not required. Musical competence will be determined by the Music Director during a trial period of at least two weeks, but not to exceed more than one series of rehearsals culminating with a concert.  Please call (585) 454–4596, ext. 18 for more information or to request an application.

FEE: $70*, refundable if participant is not placed.

Small Ensembles for Adults

Chamber Music Connection
for students in grades 6-12 and adults who play at NYSSMA Level 3-6, or the equivalent
Weekly one-hour sessions will be scheduled at times mutually agreeable among ensemble members and coach.
Chamber Music Connection offers fun and challenging opportunities to play a unique and crucial role in a small group setting and helps develop musicianship as well as personal skills such as cooperation, leadership, poise, focus, and self-awareness. Trios, quartets, and quintets are formed of players with compatible ages and abilities, as permitted from the pool of applicants. Open to piano, strings, woodwinds, and brass. Opportunities and benefits of the program include: a minimum of 30 coachings during the 36-week school year with members of the Hochstein faculty, Antara Winds (guest artist woodwind quintet), master classes with guest artists, and performance opportunities at Hochstein and throughout the Greater Rochester and Finger Lakes regions.

Electric Ensemble
Craig Snyder, Instructor
Mondays, 7:30-8:30 pm
Designed to develop reading skills, as well as improvisation in the jazz, rock, and blues styles for electric guitar, electric bass, and percussion players seeking performance experience in a mixed group. Students should have three years experience on their instrument and good reading ability.

FEE for all Ensembles: $8 registration fee; $396* yearly tuition payable in quarterly installments of $99 each. For students enrolled in individual lessons at Hochstein, yearly tuition is $324 payable in quarterly installments of $81.