Any of you folks found anything?
Laurie, this would be a useful collection for your blog!
I think the organized structure of daily virtual "camp" activities will force me to practice daily, in a way that I'm not sure Violympics would.
For the Suzuki camps, I don't mind the "babysitting" since ordinarily I would be fully sitting in on those sessions anyway. My son is getting far more out of his group classes than individual lessons, and some of those Suzuki teachers at the virtual camps are really talented group teachers.
Austin Suzuki Institute is going online.
Philadelphia Music Festival (student age) is going online, too.
Inside Music Academy looks to be virtual-native, and has a range of programs, including opening programs at all levels to adult amateurs, and a Suzuki program.
I've asked my studio families to consider "local" weekend workshops (NJ & PA) as a way to support the programs that they are most likely to want to attend in the future even though they could technically attend any program anywhere. Most of them are scheduled for 2-3x/week with me now (mix of group and short lessons) to take advantage of the frequent contact that is currently possible, something like 1-3 hours/week screen time depending on age/level/motivation. I'm sure that directors of week-long programs are doing everything possible to make them amazing and address concerns related to screen time, but it's a lot more palatable to me to promote the 2-day events.
i would go local (and I had intended to send my son to the local Suzuki institute this year, as it's quite a large one) but my son's local large program has nothing over the summer. Group lessons are roughly biweekly in the school year, skips school holiday weeks, and normally stop entirely in the summer (and a lot of the students don't take summer lessons at all under normal circumstances).
I really want my son to do group lessons at least every other week during the summer.
I think Suzuki teachers -- like so many of us -- are counting ourselves lucky to still have our jobs but we're rather burned out on screen time. For most Suzuki teachers, the summer Suzuki programs are really not all that lucrative. They're not nothing though, in terms of extra income.
And if Blue Ridge Suzuki Camp goes online, I recommend that one. The people who run it are wonderful. That's a fun camp because a lot of the parents are musicians too and there are often play-ins. It's not really set up for intensive instruction for someone like you (Lydia) though.
To get people used to the format, my wife Chika is presenting a weekly free Violin Book 1 and Book 2 play-in every Thursday at 5:00pm Pacific Time and Friday at 9:00am Pacific Time. Each week we have over a hundreds kids joining us from all over the globe, from Asia, the South Pacific, North and South America, and Europe. The experience focuses on getting participants to play as much as possible accompanied by custom backing tracks by the California Solisti Chamber Orchestra, and we're running them all summer long except for the week of the festival above.
If you'd like information, please send me a message. :)
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Suzuki - Chicago Suzuki Institute
Non-Suzuki Advanced Level:
Heifetz Institute
Center Stage Strings
Virtuosi Academy https://www.virtuosiacademy.com
Sounding Point Academy https://www.soundingpointacademy.com/
(I linked the last two because they are still accepting applications. Heifetz and Center Stage also opened back applications briefly but I think they are both settled now.)
Other Programs with other models:
Violympics
String Insiders Solo String Intensive https://stringinsiders.com/homepage3234
There are some other smaller or more local programs as well, like Merit School here in Chicago.