While private lessons provide the core, group rehearsals for performance preparation makes the complete musician. All students serious about music should be involved in regular rehearsals that develop these skills that cannot receive adequate attention during private lessons. Monthly performance rehearsals are open to all students enrolled in private lessons without charge. These usually take place monthly on late Saturday or Sunday afternoons.

Performance Rehearsal

Besides performing opportunities, be they recitals, festivals, or competitions, those times when students gather and share in other ways are also invaluable. At the CAM, our instructors arrange Performance Rehearsals throughout the year as required. These are group rehearsals for students without parents in which they all share and play for each other, partially to gain performance experience prior to recitals and events, and also to learn valuable performance etiquette, presence, and poise.

Meets: arranged by personal instructor
Prerequisites: currently enrolled student of the CAM
Cost: free for all registered students

Group Make-Up Class

For those students who have missed regular private lessons for any reason, every instructor at the CAM holds group make-up classes throughout the year. During these classes, instructors go into the habits and techniques of practicing efficiently, conduct ear-training sessions, or a variety of other topics necessary for a good foundation in music. Contact your primary instructor for details about the next class he or she plans to hold. These make-up classes are free of charge.

Basic Music History

While developing technical and interpretive skills is essential, an equally important part of becoming a complete musician is understanding the art form itself. Basic Music History introduces students to music across the ages, exploring style, form, and context with listening examples and interactive discussions. Students gain practical tools to better understand and talk about music, while also building a foundation for advanced study. Basic Music History is required once for Exam and Competition Track students under the age of 13, and strongly encouraged for younger students.