The past two summers, our student Autumn has packed up her cello and headed to Ohio, where she’s been part of the Cincinnati Young Artists Summer Workshop.

The Joy of Music School was pleased to pay her tuition.

The program is basically all cello, all the time for six days straight. Classes run from 9 to 4. Some are master classes and “mini master classes,” where the kids observe other students being critiqued. Others are specific classes on topics such as improving vibrato, or warmup exercises and being better prepared to play physically.

Sounds like hard work. But if you love the cello, as Autumn does, it’s also a lot of fun.

This summer, the program was organized so that she traveled from class to class with a small group of fellow students. They all got to know each other well, and Autumn feels like she made some new friends.

“I really enjoyed it,” the homeschooling 10th grader says of the workshop experience, adding: “I think I did grow as cellist quite a bit.”

 

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