Piano

2024 Calendar

HIGH SCHOOL
Grades 9-12 next school year
Please note required proficiency levels

Session 1 June 26 – July 7
Session 2 July 10 – July 21

INTERMEDIATE
Grades 7-9 next school year
Please note required proficiency levels

Session 3 July 24 – August 4
Session 4 August 7 – August 18

Blue Lake’s Piano Program is designed to guide each student at camp to musical achievement with an enriching learning environment. Every student will receive private instruction every day during the session. Students will also be scheduled for two hours of supervised practice daily. Students receive daily instruction in keyboard ensemble and music theory, and meet for seminars on a variety of topics that may include piano history, literature, practice and performance skills, and faculty performances.

Students can complete their instructional day by choosing a Minor, allowing them to experience another area of interest while at camp. Students also have the opportunity to attend Summer Arts Festival performances, as well as participate in recreation, camp activities, and attend arts-focused educational events in the evening.

Many students are given performance opportunities throughout the session in piano seminars, master classes, and studio recitals. The final presentation will include all students in brief solo and keyboard ensemble performances. Although students should bring repertoire on which they are currently working, teachers will assign new material to be learned, memorized, and performed while at camp.

Piano Camp Student Proficiencies

Required Proficiency Levels
Piano students must have completed the following repertoire, or music of similar difficulty, prior to attending camp:

High School – Sessions 1 and 2
Bach, Inventions or French Suites
Mendelssohn, Songs Without Words
Bartok, Mikrokosmos Vol. No. 4
Classical Sonata Movements

Intermediate – Sessions 3 and 4
Bach, Selections from the Anna Magdalena Notebook
Bartok, Music for Children
Schumann, Album for the Young
Clementi, Sonatina

Dr. Wan-Chin Chang

Piano Department Coordinator

Wan-Chin Chang is the piano department coordinator, and she has been a faculty member at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp since 2002. She received her Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in piano performance from the University of Southern California. She teaches at Soka University of America and MiraCosta College, both located in California. Dr. Chang regularly performs as a soloist with orchestras such as La Mirada Symphony, Dana Point Symphony, MiraCosta Symphony, Southern California Philharmonic, Orchestra Collective of Orange County, Southland Symphony, and . . .

Blue Lake Festival Orchestra. She always knew she wanted to be a musician the moment her mother introduced the piano to her when she was 5 years old. What draws Dr. Chang back to Blue Lake year after year is the wonderful environment that allows everyone to immerse in arts and form life-long friendships with others. It has been her greatest pleasure to be part of the campers’ journeys and witness their growth.