Educational Programs
YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM
The DACAMERA Young Artist Program is a chamber music fellowship program for emerging professional instrumentalists, singers and composers. The goal of the program is to encourage musicians to develop the skills necessary to become passionate, forward-thinking and community-focused “citizen artists;” that is, artists who reimagine the traditional notions of their music-making and embrace the role of contributing to society through the transformative power of their art and proactive social engagement. DACAMERA Young Artists participate in an exciting variety of performances, workshops and school visits.
MUSIC ENCOUNTERS
Music Encounters is a DACAMERA initiative that brings classical music and jazz into students’ core-curricular classrooms throughout Houston. The mission of the program is to establish creative learning environments that support the Texas Essential Knowledge Skills (TEKS) by promoting collaboration between artists, students and classroom teachers.
Learn more about Music Encounters including sample lessons and videos.
MENTORS IN MUSIC
Mentors in Music is a series of master classes in which Houston’s most talented student musicians have an opportunity to work directly with DACAMERA guest artists. Most master classes are open to the public although some are exclusive to certain school partners.
DACAMERA has presented master classes by soprano Dawn Upshaw, pianist Emanuel Ax, pianist Sullivan Fortner, bassist Christian McBride, composer and conductor Matthias Pintscher, the Brentano String Quartet and many more.
DACAMERA CREATIVE RESIDENCIES
DACAMERA Creative Residencies allow artists to spend an extended period of time developing or carrying out a project. A recent example was drummer/composer Kendrick Scott’s Unearthed, and the related Exploring Unearthed residencies in two Fort Bend ISD middle schools. Other examples include Jason Moran’s Homecoming residency and Finding Home, a residency exploring immigration through folk music and chamber music .
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