Young Artist Program in Cello
This class is open to senior cello students and provides instruction in a setting that moves towards traditional music college/university instruction while maintaining roots in Suzuki philosophy and pedagogy. It is expected that these senior players, who provide a role model to other participating students, will join enthusiastically in other Institute events.
Students Eligible:
Cellists who have completed Suzuki Bk. 7 or who are working at a Grade 9 RCM level or higher.
Daily in-person only program includes:
Daily Optional Classes: (you may choose up to two options)
Cost: $690 CDN. Optional classes extra
Please note that mature students may better handle the audition process and the public master class instruction in the Young Artist Program. While there are no age limits, high school-age students may adapt to this somewhat more intense experience more easily than younger children. The regular Senior String program is another very rewarding option for advanced students who are unsure about the YAP or who are not accepted into the program (there is strictly limited enrolment in the YAP).
Application deadline is May 1st
Prepare your video audition, upload it to a web hosting service, and email download links to Elayne Ras by May 1st (no exceptions). See the Video Audition instructions.
NOTE: Audition recordings will not be processed until we have received the registration fee. Some classes will begin on Sunday August 9, and you will be notified via email about the specific times.
Students Eligible:
Cellists who have completed Suzuki Bk. 7 or who are working at a Grade 9 RCM level or higher.
Daily in-person only program includes:
- Daily public Master Class (half-hour per student) with Carole Sirois (QC)
- Daily Master Class includes piano collaborator (if required) and rehearsal before the classes begin.
- Daily Cello Choir
- Daily Advanced Orchestra rehearsal
- Solo performance at the end of the week
Daily Optional Classes: (you may choose up to two options)
- Chamber Music
- Choir for Everyone!
- Beginners Composition
- Intermediate Composition
- Fiddling
- Handbells
- Improvisation
- Percussion
Cost: $690 CDN. Optional classes extra
Please note that mature students may better handle the audition process and the public master class instruction in the Young Artist Program. While there are no age limits, high school-age students may adapt to this somewhat more intense experience more easily than younger children. The regular Senior String program is another very rewarding option for advanced students who are unsure about the YAP or who are not accepted into the program (there is strictly limited enrolment in the YAP).
Application deadline is May 1st
Prepare your video audition, upload it to a web hosting service, and email download links to Elayne Ras by May 1st (no exceptions). See the Video Audition instructions.
NOTE: Audition recordings will not be processed until we have received the registration fee. Some classes will begin on Sunday August 9, and you will be notified via email about the specific times.
Carole Sirois has been a dynamic and integral part of the Canadian music scene over the past fifty years, performing with the nation’s finest symphonic and chamber ensembles.
As a member of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit for nearly twenty years, she participated in all its concerts, international tours and recordings – more than sixty on the Decca-London label. Subsequently, she performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Les Violons du Roy (Quebec City), and from 2006 until 2016, she was a member of the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa) under Pinchas Zukerman. In the course of her orchestral career, she has been principal cellist of the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, the McGill Chamber Orchestra and the Société philharmonique de Montréal.
Her gifts as a chamber musician have kept her in constant demand for concerts in Canada, the United States and Europe. She has performed with Musica Camerata de Montréal, Les Chambristes de Montréal, Les Chambristes de Ville-Marie and Trio Hochelaga. In addition, she has been invited to perform at international chamber music festivals with such renowned artists as Alexandre Tharaud, Pascal Rogé, William Preucil, Maurice Bourgues, James Campbell, Robert Silverman and John Perry.
She has appeared as guest soloist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and her recitals have been broadcast regularly on Radio-Canada’s music channel.
Her dedication to teaching has nurtured new generations of musicians at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, the Université de Montréal, Bishop’s University, the Université de Sherbrooke, Toronto’s Glenn Gould School, the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Pinchas Zukerman’s Young Artists Program and the Domaine Forget’s Music Academy.
Carole Sirois studied cello with Thérèse Motard, Hélène Gagné, Walter Joachim, Guy Fallot and Philippe Muller. She is married to the renowned double bass player Joel Quarrington.
She has appeared as guest soloist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and her recitals have been broadcast regularly on Radio-Canada’s music channel.
Her dedication to teaching has nurtured new generations of musicians at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, the Université de Montréal, Bishop’s University, the Université de Sherbrooke, Toronto’s Glenn Gould School, the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Pinchas Zukerman’s Young Artists Program and the Domaine Forget’s Music Academy.
Carole Sirois studied cello with Thérèse Motard, Hélène Gagné, Walter Joachim, Guy Fallot and Philippe Muller. She is married to the renowned double bass player Joel Quarrington.
Orchestra
with Dragon Djerkic (QC)
Dragan will lead our senior orchestra in a varied selection of music on Friday's Final Orchestral Concert. He has vast experience working with student orchestras. Prepare to be amazed!
Dragan will lead our senior orchestra in a varied selection of music on Friday's Final Orchestral Concert. He has vast experience working with student orchestras. Prepare to be amazed!
Cello Choir
with David Evenchick (QC)
Cellos sing together again in SOSI’s unique Cello Choir. The music is fantastic, and the “choir” will perform late in the week. Suzuki cellists Bk. 4 and beyond will receive music to prepare in advance.
Cellos sing together again in SOSI’s unique Cello Choir. The music is fantastic, and the “choir” will perform late in the week. Suzuki cellists Bk. 4 and beyond will receive music to prepare in advance.
NOTE: All information, classes, faculty, etc. are subject to change depending on enrolment.