5th Annual
Kanack School Fiddle Camp 2008
Megan Beller, Director
July 14-18, 2008
Kanack School of Music
Rochester, NY
Morning Camp 9-12:30 $150
Afternoon Camp 1:30-5 $150
All day 9-5 $300
For all day students, lunch may be brought from home or purchased from DiBella's Sub Shop the during check in each morning. Snacks provided.
Both the morning and afternoon camps are open to all ages on any instrument. Instructors will be playing fiddle, cello, guitar, and piano. The full day of fiddle camp offers plenty of musical variety and fun programming for beginners and advanced musicians. For those considering half a day, see the detailed information below to decide which camp is appropriate.
The morning camp will focus on learning fiddle tunes and developing fiddle style and technique. There will be sessions each morning to learn new tunes and practice old ones. Students can choose which tunes they'd like to learn. Adults and advanced students will also have workshops on ornamentation, bowing, note reading, accompanying, history of folk music, and tune writing. Younger fiddlers will have folk inspired art and dance classes. Each morning will include jam sessions for beginnings and advanced players. The morning camp will conclude with a presentation at noon on Friday of music and dance from the week. Family and friends are welcome to this final concert. The tunes taught over the course of the week will be collected in a music packet and CD for students to study at home and keep.
The afternoon will focus on playing fiddle music in a band setting. There will be classes in improvisation, arranging, and master classes with faculty. Students will be broken into small groups to work with a coach to practice fiddling, accompanying, and improvising together to prepare for a performance at the end of the week. The afternoon camp will conclude with a Friday pizza party and concert featuring all of the student bands.
Campers will have the opportunity to perform in the Rochester Irish Festival in September. There will be rehearsals in August for the Irish Festival fiddlers. There will be auditions during the week of camp for fiddlers interested in performing a solo at the Irish festival.
For more information, please email Megan Beller at meganbeller@yahoo.com
or call The Kanack School at (585) 244-6910
Faculty:
Megan Beller, American and Klezmer Fiddle
 Megan graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a BA in Violin Performance and Music Education in 2003. Megan plays American, Irish, and French Canadian fiddle tunes with her contra dance band Contranella. She also plays traditional Jewish fiddle with the Twelve Corners Klezmer Band. Past performances include the dance stages at NEFFA and at the Turtle Hill Folk Festival, the Rochester Thanksgiving Dance Weekend and the Phylla Mae Festival.
Alice Kanack, Improvisation
 Alice Kanack is a Rochester native with degrees in Performance and Composition from the Eastman School of Music. She is an accredited Suzuki Association of Americas teacher, with training both in the US and in Japan with Dr. Shinichi Suzuki. Alice's "Creative Ability Development" series of books and recordings are currently published by Warner Bros. and are sold internationally
Elizabeth Hirshorn, Irish Fiddle
 Liz Hishorn started the violin at age six and played classical violin for many years before getting into fiddle in college. She has studied Irish fiddle with Laura Risk and plays a variety of Northern styles. Liz is currently getting a PhD in Cognitive Science at the University of Rochester. She has been teaching fiddle at the Kanack School for the past year.
Katie Fittipaldi, Cello
 Katie Fittipaldi received a Masters degree in Classical String performance from the Irish World Music Center at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Bachelor of Music in Cello from Ithaca College. She is a member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas and has training from the International Music Festival in Berea, Ohio and from the Institute of Suzuki in Montreal. She has also been certified teacher of Alexander Technique by the Alexander Alliance School in Philadelphia.
c in Cello from Ithaca College. Member of Suzuki Association of the Americas; Suzuki cello teacher training at the International Music Festival in Berea, Ohio and at the Institute Suzuki in Montreal.
Ellen Anderson, Irish Fiddle and Dance
 Ellen Anderson began the violin in third grade and started studying the fiddle in high school with Brendan Callaghan in Philladelphia. Since then she has played fiddle and danced at Irish feises all over the United States. She can be found at Irish sessions in Rochester while she is in school at the University of Rochester.
Nick Tiberio, Irish Fiddle
 Nick is an award winning Irish Fiddler, he has performed for numerous competitions, festivals, and dances including the Rochester Irish festival. He has studied traditional music in Ireland and Cape Breton and can be found at the Rochester Irish Session when he's not busy training falcons.
Conal O'Kane, Irish Fiddle, Guitar, and Banjo
 Conal O'Kane is a fiddler, guitar and banjo player who just returned from a year studying and performing in Ireland. He plays regularly in sessions in Philadelphia, where he has studied fiddle with Brendan Callaghan and guitar with John Brennan. Other major influences are Cathal Hayden and John Carty.
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