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Percussion, Steel Pan & World Music Videos
The Birch Creek Percussion, Steel Pan & World Music Summer Academy in Egg Harbor, WI offers a comprehensive summer education experience for the young adult percussionist. Through firsthand experience with many performances, small-group instruction, and master classes, this program provides an incredible study of all the instruments and styles expected of today’s percussionist who is planning on working at the college level and beyond.
All students in the Percussion, Steel Pan & World Music session learn to play the steelpan and are placed in a Birch Creek steel band. Steel bands rehearse daily and perform 8 times during the students’ 2-week residency.
Happy
Composer: Pharrell Williams
Arranged by: Yuko Asada
Director: Liam Teague
Performers: Birch Creek Percussion and Steel Band Students – 2014
Joy Ride (Wisconsin Public Television)
Composer: Ben Wahlund
Director: Ben Wahlund
Performers: Birch Creek Percussion and Steel Band Students – 2014
Symphony Music Videos
All Symphony session students at Birch Creek are assigned to a chamber ensemble which rehearses daily and is coached by a faculty member. These ensembles perform for prelude music before evening concerts and at the final afternoon concert of the session.
At Birch Creek, students combine with the faculty to form the 80 member Birch Creek Symphony Orchestra. They perform 6 concerts (4 entirely different programs) during their 2-week residency, plus have numerous opportunities to perform in their chamber ensembles.
The Birch Creek Symphony performs Academic Festival Overture by Johannes Brahms. Birch Creek's program is unique in symphony and chamber music education. Students rehearse and perform alongside their teachers, and progress at an amazing rate.
Nimrod Variation from Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36,
Composer: Sir Edward Elgar
Conductor: Brian Groner
Big Band Jazz Music Videos
At Birch Creek, students perform in large groups and small ensembles. They perform in 7 concerts and 2 to 3 combo performances. They also have additional opportunities to perform in other public outreach concerts.
The 2012 Birch Creek Studio Band with director Nic Meyer performs Four Five Six by Frank Foster. Recorded for broadcast by Wisconsin Public Television as a part of the Young Performers Initiative.
On The Trail
Composer: Ferde Grofé
Director: José Encarnación
Performers: Birch Creek Jazz Ambassadors
Special Birch Music Videos
The highlight of the holiday season at Birch Creek is our annual Christmas Concert in Juniper Hall. This year, we present a virtual concert featuring Birch Creek faculty from each of the academy sessions and guest artists – for one and all to enjoy! Video production by Frank McKearn IV. 2020.
An engaging inside look at the students and faculty who make up Birch Creek Music Performance Center's residential music academy in Door County, Wisconsin. October 2020