EAMA offers summer music programs in composition, conducting and chamber music at the historic Schola Cantorum in Paris, France – taught in the tradition of the legendary Nadia Boulanger.
Program Dates: July 1 – 28, 2012
These programs offer intensive study of the crafts of counterpoint, harmony, analysis, and musicianship as well as composition and chamber music performance taught by professors from The Juilliard School, Indiana University Bloomington, Mannes College of Music, Westminster Choir College, the Paris Conservatory, the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and La Schola Cantorum.
Classes are held at La Schola Cantorum in Paris, founded in 1895 by the French composers Vincent d’Indy, Charles Bordes and Alexandre Guilmant to counteract the stifling atmosphere of the Paris Conservatory.
Important musical figures from all over the world have studied and taught at La Schola Cantorum, including: Eric Satie, Darius Milhaud, Edgar Varèse, David Diamond, Bohuslav Martinu, and Isaac Albeniz. Organists such as Louis Vierne, Olivier Messiaen, Maurice Duruflé, and Jean Langlais also passed through its hallowed halls.
La Schola Cantorum itself is an historic 17th Century ‘Hôtel Particulier’, originally constructed as a Benedictine Convent, conveniently situated in Paris’ Latin Quarter, the artistic heart of Paris. The Schola Cantorum boasts a fully operational original 1902 Cavaillé-Coll organ, Steinway concert grand, and its own private gardens.
EAMA sponsors the annual, year-round EAMA Music Lecture Series, focusing on the living link between the music of our time and the rich tradition that proceeds it. Building on the legacy of Nadia Boulanger’s Wednesday Analysis class, the EAMA Lectures are held in an intimate setting and are geared toward both the serious student of music who wishes to improve his/her craft and the music lover who seeks a greater understanding and appreciation of what they enjoy in the finest works of both yesterday and today.EAMA also sponsors The EAMA Prize, an annual composition prize awarded to a work of profound artistic message, possessing a unique musical voice, and demonstrating clear, direct power of communication. EAMA is a not for profit arts organization committed to fostering and promoting the classical arts. Its mission is to teach, to broaden interest in the arts, and to present composers and performers of the highest caliber.
