Summer

Music Camps with Erin Flynn (Strings/Piano/Voice)

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  • Cello Boot Camp for High School Students

    Monday, August 4 – Friday, August 8 (9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m) 

    Senior Regional Orchestra auditions are coming up in 7 weeks! Ready or not, this session will prepare you. We will work on the SRO Excerpt and Etude, sight reading skills, tenor and treble clef reading skills, thumb position and fingerboard geography. Whether these concepts are new or need reinforcement, you will come away from this camp with the foundations solid. Whether or not you plan to audition, have worked all summer long or haven’t touched a cello since May, this camp is for you! Students should be at least an intermediate level and have basic bass clef and rhythm reading skills. Contact Erin Flynn with questions. 

  • Piano Keyboard Basics

    Monday, June 9 – Friday, June 13  (9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)

    This is for anyone looking to learn how to play piano! We will work on the basics of technique, note reading and playing songs.

  • Sight Singing 101

    Monday, July 14 – Friday, July 18 (9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)

    This is for students who love to sing and want to learn how to read music and sing on sight. We will cover the fundamentals of music reading, singing using solfege and pitch control. Whether you have no music reading experience or just want to improve in sight singing, this is for you!

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  • Cost

    $250/week

  • Dates

    • PIANO:  Monday, June 9 – Friday, June 13  
      (9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)           
    • VOICE:  Monday, July 14 – Friday, July 18
      (9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)       
    • CELLO:  Monday, August 4 – Friday, August 8
      (9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)

  • Grades

    • PIANO:  Rising 6-12           
    • VOICE:  Rising 8-12     
    • CELLO:  Rising 9-12

  • Instructor

    Erin Flynn, erinflynn@trinityes.org

  • Location

    Perkinson Arts Center 

About the Instructor

Erin Flynn teaches orchestra, voice and piano at Trinity Episcopal School. She is also the founder of Redbird Cello Studio, where she has been offering private lessons, group classes and a performance lab since 2016 in Charlottesville, VA. With 14 years of experience teaching strings, Erin spent 4 years working with the orchestras at Albemarle High School, Journey Middle School and Lakeside Middle School, alongside director Carrie Finnegan. She has also taught all bowed string instruments at the Music Education Center and the Nazareth Music Center in Pennsylvania. Erin earned her degree in music and cello performance from Kutztown University, where she studied cello under pedagogue Marie-Aline Cadieux, viola with Mary Ogletree of the Reading Symphony, and chamber music with Kurt Nikkanen, concertmaster of the New York City Ballet. In addition to her work with strings, Erin sings with One Voice Chorus and studied voice with Christina Fleming, a vocal coach certified in the Alexander Technique. She has studied piano for 10 years and continues to receive mentorship from Hope Armstrong Erb, pianist and founder of the Greater Richmond Children’s Choir. Erin has performed with the Waynesboro Symphony, Richmond Allied Voices, the Shenandoah Symphony, the NEPA Philharmonic, Charlottesville Opera, Capital Opera, RVA Baroque and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Trinity Episcopal School

3850 PITTAWAY DR | RICHMOND VA 23235-1099 | Phone: 804.272.5864 | Fax: 804.272.5865 Email: mail@trinityes.org