uition & Fees
uition & Fees
Class/Ensemble tuition: Tuition is listed with each class/ensemble description. Please see appropriate page. Tuition for ensembles formed midyear will be prorated.
THE WASHINGTON CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
Presents
DESIGN YOUR OWN SUMMER CAMP
Summer is a perfect time for new musical adventures.
You may design your own musical summer at the Washington Conservatory!
Just give us a call: 301-320-2770. registration form
Individual Lessons
Summertime is the perfect time to hone technical and musical skills and get a “jump start” for the fall. A minimum of four lessons are required for new students.
Lessons with a summer music coach
If your regular private teacher is away for vacation, you may enroll with a Conservatory teacher just for the summer, for continued musical studies and guidance on your instrument. (Please give us a call to see if teachers are available for your instrument.)
Music Theory lessons
Understanding music theory enhances the study of any instrument. Use the summer for a “jump start”
Try a new instrument
Interested in seeing if guitar, flute, piano, cello – or any other instrument – is for you? Use the summer to find out! (Minimum of four lessons.)
Chamber music – Duos, trios or quartets!
Summer chamber music options are endless! Make your own duo, trio or quartet with your friends, or let us put you on our “match list” to find students of similar levels. Consider piano and flute duets, a cello trio, a string quartet, or a combination of your choosing. For students of all ages and levels!
One piano – four hands
Share piano lessons with a friend, sibling, or parent to learn the wonderful world of piano duets! Two students, one teacher. (Also, see Gowen Duo special workshop BELOW.)
Group class guitar – for 4 or more
Four friends may take a weekly one-hour guitar class together. We are also happy to put you on our “music match list” to make a class of beginning guitarists.
Special Summer Coaching For Piano Duets
One Piano — Four Hands
with
Maribeth and Bradford Gowen
For amateur and professional pianists
Two coaches • Two pianists • One piano
1, 1 ½, and 2 hour sessions available
You may take as many sessions as you like (subject to availability)
on Tuesday and Thursday mornings
During two weeks in June (17th-26th) and/or two weeks in July (8th-17th)
Piano Duet Coaching: For two weeks in June (17th-26th) and two weeks in July (8th-17th) the Gowens will offer individual duo coaching on Tuesday and Thursday mornings at the Washington Conservatory. The Conservatory is located in the Westmoreland Church building, One Westmoreland Circle, Bethesda, MD (Massachusetts Avenue at Western Aves.)
You pick the number of coaching sessions: Sign up for one to eight coachings-- or as many as you like! The Piano Duet Literature is rich, varied, and fun, and summer is the perfect time to enrich your music-making experience!
Cost:
$60 per person per hour session.
$90 per person per 1 ½ hour session
$120 per person per two-hour session
No partner? Let us try to find one for you. We are happy to put your name on our “match list.” Please rank yourself as beginner, intermediate, advanced, or professional.
What music? Pianists unfamiliar with the literature will be given suggestions of music to play.
How to register: Phone the Washington Conservatory between 10 AM – 6 PM, Monday through Friday: 301-320-2770. Registration with credit card or check. Participants are assigned times on a first-call basis. Payment due in advance of placement.
Optional master class and recital opportunities available.
ABOUT THE GOWEN PIANO DUO: Bradford and Maribeth Gowen have performed together as a piano duo for over twenty-five years. They have appeared throughout the United States and other countries as a duo and as soloists and chamber musicians, and have performed Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos with several orchestras. Bradford was the first winner of the Kennedy Center/Rockefeller Foundation International Competition for Excellence in the Performance of American Music, and Maribeth was the winner of the National Collegiate Artist Award of the Music Teachers National Association. After one of their concerts at the National Gallery of Art, the Washington Post stated, "The Gowens are as finely balanced and attuned a team as one is likely to encounter."
