composition

Summer Symposium 2022

This years' Summer Symposium was a huge success!  Our program met capacity with over 650 students, teachers, and audience members reached with 4 performances and over 80 classes led by 10 faculty members and 14 local and national guests. 

We are so proud of all of our students and their incredible work over the 2 week camp. It’s amazing what they were able to accomplish!

 

Tune in & watch the 2022 Summer Symposium Showcase on our YouTube Channel!
9 student compositions were premiered by students and faculty and the audio was student produced!

WATCH NOW

Video Game Music: Registration Open

Video Game Music

Analysis and Composition

Taught by Francisco Joubert and Andy Callaway

Sign Up HERE

Ever find yourself having to choose between practicing music and playing video games? Well now you can do both!

Video games will serve as the basis for studying classical composition in this 8 week course.  Students will study instrument colors, sound textures and audio/visual association - then use those skills to compose an original score set to a scene from their favorite game.


Time: Tuesdays 7-8pm 

Location: Louisville Academy of Music

Dates: October 5th - November 30th (off the November 23) Showcase December 7th

Ages: 8-12 Beginner Course/13+ Advanced Course

Price: $180

Personal computer and headphones required

*to be considered for a computer loan and/or financial assistance please contact info@laofm.org

Fall Group Classes Now Open!

Music Theory with Jacob Gotlib

ENROLL

Learn how music works from the inside out! From note-reading to harmony to rhythm, Music Theory will help you master the building blocks of music with demonstrations, activities, and performances.

Dates: September 1 - November 17

Times: Sundays 11-12 or Mondays 7:30-8:30

Price: $150 for 12 week session

Ages 13 and up (unless recommended by private teacher) Must be proficient at reading treble clef

Children’s Choir with Laura Atkinson

ENROLL

This is a choir opened to girls and boys ages 6-10. This is a great option for children who love to sing, but who might not yet be ready for individual voice lessons. Here, children are introduced to concepts like breath, singing technique, pitch, rhythm and begin to sight read notes. Solfege based on movable ‘Do’ will be the standard. Singing is all done in unison to build skills in intonation and group singing, with the option of learning to sing in harmony depending on enrollment size. The choir will meet once a week for 45 minute sessions, and will perform in the Winter Recital at the end of a 9-week block. There will also be a chance for the choir to perform in an outreach concert with other LAM students.

Dates: 9/20-11/22 (no Class October 4th) 

Time: Fridays 5:30-6:15

Price: $120 for the session

Ages 6-10, no experience needed



Electronic Composition with Andrew Callaway

Learn how to use synthesizers, microphones, computers and audio editing software to compose music. Create sounds for multiple genres - classical, film, pop or video game music. Topics will cover composition, structure, harmony, synthesizers, waveforms, filters, EQ, compression, and mixing/mastering.

Dates: October 10 - Dec 19 (out for Thanksgiving week)

Time: Thursdays 7-8pm

Price: $120 for 10 classes

Ages 12+ All experience/skill levels welcome.

Chamber Music with Jeffrey Jamner

APPLY by August 15th, 2019

WHY study chamber music? Unlike solo playing or playing with a conductor, students learn how to listen and respond to each other for timing and balance, and they have to learn to negotiate their interpretive choices as a group. This is one of the most important and powerful ways to grow as a musician. Students enrolled in this chamber music class will be placed in chamber music ensembles (duos, trios, quartets, etc.) with music students at a similar level. They will receive 10 coachings per semester with Jeff Jamner and with other LAM faculty, work on their parts as part of their weekly private lessons, and are encouraged to rehearse between coachings. Middle and high school students may wish to prepare for the Macauley Chamber Music Competition run by the Chamber Music Society of Louisville.

*Space is limited and assignments will be confirmed by September 1st on your acceptance into the program based on availability, level, and pairing with other applicants.

Dates: 10 coachings between September 15th-December 15th

Price: $200 for Semester

LAM hosts innovative composition workshop

We are excited to host Longleash trio and Dr. Allison Ogden in their new program the Pipeline Initiative: an introductory composition workshop for high school age instrumentalists from backgrounds that are underrepresented in the field of composition.

"As new music specialists, we are confronted with the many inequities and imbalances in the field of composition on a daily basis. With the Pipeline Initiative, we hope to address one very small part of the systemic inequities that exclude certain groups in our society from acts of cultural production. This program will provide students with the artistic tools to articulate and amplify their musical perspective, through a craft-based approach intended to get students composing in a cognizant way, regardless of what form their chosen mode of musical expression may ultimately take."

-Longleash

Read more HERE