Summer Music for Kids, is happy to announce that beginning with the summer of 2022 we will be offering music programs, at no cost to students, for students who will be entering 5th grade in the Rochester, Stockbridge, Hancock, Granville, VT area. Summer Music for Kids, a newly incorporated Vermont Domestic Non-profit corporation formed by local musicians in the Rochester/Stockbridge area, is happy
to announce that beginning with the summer of 2022 we will be offering music lessons, at no cost to students, for all students who will be entering 5th grade in the Rochester, Stockbridge, Hancock, Granville area in the fall of 2022. Lessons will take place at the Rochester Elementary School on Wednesday mornings, June 22 and 29, July 6, 20 and 27, and August 3rd. Each student will receive an individual lesson, followed by a group Enrichment session, and then an attempt for the students to play together. All the students will be given nutritious snacks – on arrival, after the individual lesson, and just before leaving for home at around noon. Our expert instrumental music teachers are: Scott Paulson (percussion, trumpet, trombone), Barbara Smith (Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone), and Emily Sunderman (violin and cello). Our Enrichment teachers include Holly Mugford Bermingham and Ethan Bowen. Our goal is to provide an opportunity for young students to learn to play a musical instrument – at no cost to the student or the student’s family. For more information, send an email to [email protected], or talk to Susan Bushnell, (Rochester), or Bill Edgerton, (Stockbridge). SCOTT PAULSON, Percussion and Brass Instructor, Summer Music for Kids
Scott was classically trained in rudimentary (Snare Drum) percussion and drum set from a young age by Ludwig Clinician Tom Brown. He has sent several students to district and All State Music Festivals on Snare Drum. Scott studied Double Bass and Percussion and has his B.A. in Music. Scott has taught instrumental music programs, jazz bands, steel bands and percussion groups in area private and public schools since 1996. He has been teaching private lessons at Randolph High School, White River Valley Schools, and Cardigan Mountain School for several years. He founded The Vermont Independent School of the Arts (now the Seven Stars Arts Center) in Sharon, Vermont in 2002. He taught and administered there for 13 years. He has directed percussion groups and steel drum workshops and steel drum residencies for such entities as The Vermont Alliance for Arts Education, The Vermont Music Educators Association Conference, the Green Mountain Suzuki Institute and various public and private schools from Vermont to North Carolina. He has played and recorded with myriad groups in various genres and on a variety of instruments. BARBARA SMITH, Woodwind Instructor, Summer Music for Kids
Barbara Smith attended Bard College as a Liberace Scholar, where she received her Bachelor of Arts with a focus in Music Performance. While at Bard she worked with Joan Tower, Luis Garcia-Renart, flutist Patricia Spencer, saxophonists Erika Lindsay, Harvey Kaiser and Howard Johnson, clarinetist Larry Guy, and performed as a solo flutist with the American Symphony Orchestra. In 1999 she toured the United States, Russia, and Central Europe as a saxophonist with the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra under the direction of Leon Botstein. In 2000 she served as a guest panelist at the New York City Flute Convention. Currently, Barbara performs in the area with The East Bay Jazz Ensemble, The Party Crashers, Island Time Steel Drums, and Fu’Chunk. She has also served as an adjudicator for district and state music festivals. She has also served as a chamber music coach at the Green Mountain Youth Symphony Summer camp. She is the co-founder of Vermont Independent School of the Arts in Sharon, VT (now known as the Seven Stars Arts Center), and helped form the Arts Bus project in Randolph, VT. She maintains a busy teaching studio in Hanover, as an adjunct music educator at Harwood Union High School in Moretown, and at the White River Valley Schools in Bethel and South Royalton. Many of her students participate in district, state and regional music festivals, and have gone onto pursue music degrees at the collegiate level. Emily Sunderman, String Instructor, Summer Music for Kids
Emily began her music studies at the Hartford Conservatory at age three, with Suzuki Violin visionary Barbara Embser. Pre-professional violin technique and orchestra studies were at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, CT, and chamber music at Point CounterPoint, Lucerne, and Apple Hill. Her primary teacher was Arturo Delmoni, concertmaster of the New York City Ballet. She also studied privately with Katherine Winterstein, Dieuwke Davydov, Sebu Sirinian, Nickoli Sikorsky, Laura Bossert, and Gillian Rogell (New England Conservatory). Emily has performed in professional collaboration with Sadie Brightman, Arturo Delmoni, Cynthia Huard, George Matthew, Elizabeth Reid, Peter Sanders, Jon Weber, Miho Weber, and Robert Wyatt and with ensembles including The Addison, Middlebury Community Chorus, and Hinesburg Artists Series Orchestra. Recent performances include the Middlebury College Bach Festival, the Middlebury College- Town Hall Theater production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, Hinesburg Artists Series Spring and Holiday Concerts, The Vermont Theater Lab’s production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide at the Rutland Paramount, the SONAD Mozart Festival, and the Middlebury Chamber Music Festival. In the summers she also directs Camp Adagio Chamber Music Camp for youth and teens, and the Middlebury Chamber Music Festival and the all-ages Summer String Orchestra for intermediate and advanced players.
