Teen Programs 13-18 years
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Rock Guitar Styles
Mark Campbell
Every influential guitarist has an approach that makes them sound unique. Learn to identify the elements of style that make players like Hendrix, Page and VanHalen stand out. This class is for intermediate to advanced level students who have a working knowledge of open position and barre chord forms as well as pentatonic and blues scales. 12 weeks
| Hingham: Thursday, 4 - 5 pm $235 |
Duxbury: Tuesday, 3:30 - 4:30 pm $235 |
Rock & Roll Repertory Ensemble
Chris Rathbun
Students familiarize themselves with the top 100 "must know" rock tunes from the original recordings. Class members learn songs through ear training, dictation, transcription, notation, memorizing parts, and learn how to rehearse. Students use the recording studio to record their own projects. 12 weeks
| Hingham: Wednesday, 7 - 8 pm $235 |
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Ballet Level IV
A technically more accelerated class, Level IV
carefully guides students toward beginning to
formulate their plans for intensifying their ballet studies. Duxbury campus
| Tuesday, 3:30 - 5:30 pm $1350/half year |
Wednesday, 5:45 - 7:45 pm $1350/half year |
Friday, 4:30 - 6:30 pm $1350/half year |
Saturday, 9:45 - 11:45 am $1350/half year |
Ballet Level V
For students who have demonstrated an intermediate level of
technical mastery, Level V encourages students to excel, whether they have chosen to continue to regularly take ballet for recreation and self development, or have begun to direct their sight on a
professional career. It is recommended that students at this level study five days a week: three in Duxbury and two at the Cambridge studio.
| Duxbury campus Monday, 5:45 - 7:45 pm $1125/half year |
Duxbury campus Wednesday, 5:45 - 7:45 pm $1125/half year |
Duxbury campus Friday, 2:30 - 4:30 pm $1125/half year |
Ballet Level VI
Designed for the serious ballet student, emphasis is put on
mastering advanced technique, musicality, and performance skills. Classes take place six days a week with two days required at the Cambridge studio. It is recommended that students at this level study five days a week: three in Duxbury and two at the Cambridge studio.
| Duxbury campus Monday, 5:45 - 7:45 pm $1125/half year |
Duxbury campus Wednesday, 5:45 - 7:45 pm $1125/half year |
Duxbury campus Friday, 2:30 - 4:30 pm $1125/half year |
Act III (Starring "The Shoestring Players")
| Hingham: Saturday, 11:30 am - 1 pm 15 weeks $250 |
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Music Theatre Revue
Ellen Kelly, Tom Boyer, Lorna Jane Norris
Middle and high schoolers are invited to participate in this performance-based class, dedicated to the training of the young performer in all facets of the musical theatre form...singing, working with an accompanist, and acting. During the eight-week workshop, young performers will be coached by a vocal expert, musical director and acting teacher. The finale of each workshop will be a cabaret style revue. Session starts March 1, 2008
| Hingham: Saturday, 12 - 2 pm 8 weeks $235 |
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Improv Class For Teens
Improv Asylum
Teens 14 and up. Whether your background is in theater, sports, making jokes with your friends or making funny observations to yourself, this 8-week improv class allows anyone to immediately tap into the creative side that every individual has within him or herself. Improv Asylum is Boston and New England’s leading professional improvisational theater company, and its alums have gone on to careers in comedy, on stage and in television. First eight-week session begins January 12, 2008
| Duxbury: Saturday, 11 am - 1 pm $275 |
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Family Drum Circle
Drum Circe is a hands-on, rhythm-based musical activity for all age groups. This fun, effective means of communicating through drums and percussion instruments provides health-promoting strategies such as self-expression, stress reduction and exercise. A trained facilitator leads the group.
Starts March 9, 2008
| Hingham: Sunday, 4 - 5 pm 4 weeks $85 |
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Beginner/ Intermediate Percussion Ensemble
Ed Sorrentino
| Hingham: Saturday, 8 - 9 am 12 weeks $235 |
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Advanced Percussion Ensemble
Ed Sorrentino
| Hingham: Tuesday, 6:30 - 7:30 pm 12 weeks $235 |
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Mallet Ensemble
Ed Sorrentino
This ensemble is designed to help students with reading melodies on mallet instruments. Most percussion students start with rhythms and this takes it to the next level.
| Hingham: Saturdays, 1 - 2 pm 12 weeks $235 |
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Style Sessions for High School and Adult Singers
Members of the voice department take turns introducing music styles to vocalists. Participants are asked to come to class with a piece to work on that is prepared and memorized.
Hingham: Sundays, 6 - 8 pm
Each session: $90 or per class: $35
Audit: $5/class
February 2008 Session: Art Song Language and Style
Lorna Jane Norris
2/3: English Diction featuring the Songs of Quilter
2/10: German Diction featuring the Songs of Schubert
2/24: French Diction featuring the Songs of Faure
February Session
$902/3 class
$352/10 class
$352/24 class
$35March 2008 Session: Dramatic Interpretation and Presentation
Beth MacLeod
3/9: The Eyes Have It: Using your Face as an Expressive Tool
3/16: Gestures: Move it or Lose It.... Your Audience, That Is!
3/30: Put It All Together: Singing your Story
March Session
$903/9 class
$353/16 class
$353/30 class
$35April 2008 Session: Pop, Jazz & Cabaret Style & Technique
Beth Canterbury
4/6: Cabaret - Tell the Story
4/13: Pop - Find the Emotion
4/20: Jazz - Feel the Music
April Session
$904/6 class
$354/13 class
$354/20 class
$35
High School A Capella Ensemble
Lorna Jane Norris
A small-group experience for the motivated high school singer. Students will sing in complex harmony building musical skills, foreign language diction, and vocal technique.
| Hingham: Tuesday, 6:30 - 7:30 pm 15 weeks $250 |
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Woman Song
Jennie Mulqueen
Woman Song is a 6-week class for women who love to sing. Woman Song is meant to nurture oneself as well as other women through song. Participants sing in a group and learn many rounds and part-songs drawn largely from the Libana repertoire. Every woman is welcome...every woman can sing!
First session starts January 14, 2008
Second session starts April 7, 2008
| Hingham: Monday, 7:30 - 9 pm
$100 |
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Bay Youth Symphony (BaYS)
BaYS is an auditioned*, sequential youth orchestra program designed to create an opportunity for dedicated and talented young musicians, living in communities throughout Southeastern Massachusetts, to perform symphonic music at a high level in a well organized orchestra program. The program currently offers ensembles at three levels: a string ensemble for younger students, a string orchestra, and a senior full symphonic orchestra. All rehearsals take place at the Duxbury Performing Arts Center.
*String Ensemble is for students with a minimum of one year of lessons with a recommendation from their private lesson instructor. Duxbury Performing Arts Center: Wednesday evenings, 6:30 pm
| BaYS Symphony $200/semester |
BaYS String Orchestra $150/semester |
BaYS String Ensemble $100/semester |
Orchestra Incognito
Tim Butterworth
The advent of synthesizers has made it possible for a few keyboardists to sound like a string orchestra, a four- piece rock band, or a percussion ensemble! In this class you’ll use your keyboarding skills, and our synthesizers in our new group instruction lab, to play a part in a band!
| Hingham: Mondays, 4 - 5 pm 12 weeks $235 |
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Electronic Effects for Guitarists
Mark Campbell
Guitarists have a myriad of choices when it comes to effects, so before you head off to the music store, get some hands on time with the tone shaping tools used by the guitar greats! Learn how effects change the sound of your guitar and how you can use them to discover your own tone in this 12-week course.
| Hingham: Thursday, 5 - 6 pm $235 |
Duxbury: Tuesday, 2:30 - 3:30 pm $235 |
Piano Duet Class
Piano faculty
Adults and young adults who would like to get back into piano but are afraid to take that first step, or would like to meet new friends who play and share their same desire, are invited to explore the joy of making music with two at a piano. Duets provide a fun, positive environment in which to strengthen rhythm, note reading, musicality, and teamwork. Each class includes instruction and group practice. To determine the appropriate level and pairing of each group, each student will need to play a short excerpt of something they have played in the past, or are currently playing. No excerpt is too easy! Piano pairs and instructors will determine the one-hour per week time of class jointly. Minimum 8 weeks
$35/session
| one Piano Duet Class session $35 |
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Classical Music Studies
Sponsored by Jane Carr
Edwina Li, Margaret Li
(formerly called Certificate Program)
The required classes of classical music theory, solfege (ear training and sight singing), music
appreciation and chamber music provide the necessary skills
needed for students to
develop as musicians, and enhances the students’ musical performance and enjoyment. The Classical Music Studies curriculum is particularly beneficial as a prerequisite for any student who is interested and/or anticipating to take the AP Music Theory exam.
Music theory enriches and strengthens the student’s study of their individual instrument by providing a firm understanding of the underlying musical grammar. Solfege connects theoretical concepts through active participation. It develops and internalizes correct pitch and sense of rhythm through various activities, recitation and dictation. In music appreciation, students study selected repertoire from the classical Western tradition through directed listenings and projects. Weekly chamber music sessions directly apply and reinforce concepts learned in class through active musical collaboration. The program runs for 28 weeks with a midterm and a final to assess the student’s progress. The year ends with a festival at which time the students present their independent projects and perform their chamber pieces.
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Duxbury: Friday, 3 - 5 pm
28 weeks - $1525 - Non-SSC private lesson student
$1280 - Current SSC private lesson student
AP Music Theory Prep
Margaret Li
As music theory and ear training are cumulative, it is to the advantage of the student to have been studying both to some degree as early as possible. High school students (it is recommended that students start this in their sophomore or junior year) interested in taking the AP exam in their senior year should show a demonstrated commitment to prepare for and to work at an accelerated pace. When available, practice exams will be given. Please contact the instructor if you have any further questions. South Shore Conservatory has not yet been designated as an official College Board testing center. Please contact your school’s music department for available testing centers.
For more information call 781-934-2731, ext. 17
Home School Arts Institute
In response to requests from home school parents who were looking for quality arts education for their children, South Shore Conservatory created Home School Arts Institute. The Institute’s curriculum is based on the needs and input of participating home school families, and includes private lessons, early childhood music, chamber music, chorus, basic musicianship, advanced music studies which includes music appreciation and music theory, group keyboard class (Hingham only ), theatre, public speaking and visual art (Duxbury only).
Hingham: Monday, 9 am - 2:30 pm
Duxbury: Tuesday, 9 am - 2:30 pm
Each semester runs 16 weeks.
| Electives | 4-8 students | 9-12 students |
| Certificate Program | $480 | $440 |
| Public Speaking | $240 | $220 |
| Chorus | $240 | $220 |
| Theatre | $240 | $220 |
| Art A | $280 | $255 |
| Art B | $280 | $255 |
| Musicianship | $240 | $220 |
| Chamber Music | $240 | N/A |
| Group Keyboard Class | $240 | N/A |
| Mom & Me (12 weeks) | $225 | $200 |
| Joy of Music (12 weeks) | $225 | $200 |
The Conservatory strives to make arts education accessible to all who wish to participate. Financial aid and/or sliding scale tuition is available by contacting Su D’Ambrosio at 781-749-7565, ext. 31.
Beginning group lessons available on the following instruments: recorder, flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, horn, trombone and percussion.
There is a 10% discount on all classes for families enrolling three or more children. Discounts cannot be combined.