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About
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August 17-21, festival musicians will partner with Bar 717 Summer Camp to offer a special Music Camp Workshop for adults and families. Meals and lodging are provided by the camp, and campers will have daily opportunities to have music lessons, give performances, and hear workshops by a host of professional musicians. Many other fun camp activities are part of the daily offering. Get more information at www.Bar717.com.
Here are the important details:
Dates: August 17th (evening) - August 21st (morning)
Cost: $500 for adults, $250 for children ages 6-11, $350 for children ages 12-17, free for children ages 0-5
Includes: 4 days of Music Camp, including all meals, lodging, group lessons, and evening activities
Additional Options: Private music lessons are available for an extra fee
Schedule: Mornings will consist of group lessons, afternoons will be free time for exploring the ranch, visiting the river, or scheduling private music lessons, and evenings will consist of jam sessions and/or concerts
Here are the important details:
Dates: August 17th (evening) - August 21st (morning)
Cost: $500 for adults, $250 for children ages 6-11, $350 for children ages 12-17, free for children ages 0-5
Includes: 4 days of Music Camp, including all meals, lodging, group lessons, and evening activities
Additional Options: Private music lessons are available for an extra fee
Schedule: Mornings will consist of group lessons, afternoons will be free time for exploring the ranch, visiting the river, or scheduling private music lessons, and evenings will consist of jam sessions and/or concerts
Workshops Offered
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Basic Improvisation Sessions (Matthew Boyles, Ian Scarfe)
In a basic improvisation session we will talk about why improv is important to all performers on building musicianship, how it can help with our nerves during a performance, and why it's good to bring us out of our comfort zones. We will play some basic improv games and other exercises to show how easy it is to improvise on any instrument.
Performance anxiety and stage fright (Rachel Patrick, Gina Gulyas, Matthew Boyles, Ian Scarfe)
How to gain control of your body when that sudden on stage fear hits. Ways to prepare before a concert to lower the probability of bad nerves. All this can also be applied to public speaking or just general stressful situations.
Classical Music - A Listening Party (Ian Scarfe)
This will be a music-appreciation style listening party where we explore some of the most famous, influential, and mesmerizing works of classical music. Both live performance and historical recordings will be featured.
Basic Piano Maintenance (Branislav Radakovic, Ian Scarfe)
The workshop will show basic technique of tuning a unison and an octave on a piano, opening and closing the piano to get to the tuning pins, extracting piano action, changing a piano string and pins and other tips and tricks that come up along the way.
Guitar Class (Ryan Loweth)
In this workshop Ryan Loweth will explore different styles of music with all levels of guitar students. Folk, Jazz, Pop songs, classical, and other ensemble pieces for trios, quartets. Guitarists will also have opportunities to play along with fiddlers, bass, and percussionists. Different strumming and picking styles will be covered, as well as advanced chord progressions and melodic playing. More advanced students will be able to work from lead sheets or flamenco styles as well.
Flute Class (Gina Gulyas, Ryan Loweth)
This class will explore the history and style of French and Latin flute playing, accompanied by guitarist Ryan Loweth. Featuring performances, demonstrations, and a show and tell of different kinds of phrasing and color.
Basics of Woodwind playing (Gina Gulyas, Matthew Boyles)
This class will discuss proper techniques for breathing, blowing, and preserving air when playing wind instruments, including flutes, oboes, clarinets, saxophones, bassoons, and some brass instruments. It will address good posture and methods for optimal inhalation.
Strings Class (Rachel Patrick, Rolayne Bashaw)
Violins, Violas, Cellos! Fiddles and Basses! All are welcome in this combination class that will feature playing together in string groups and learning techniques from instructors. Styles covered will include everything from classical chamber music to folk and bluegrass fiddling.
Vocal Class / All Songs Considered! (Ian Scarfe, Branislav Radakovic)
Bring your favorite songs of any style (with sheet music, please!) and sing them with piano accompaniment. Vocal techniques and singing styles will be taught by Branislav Radakovic, with musical coaching by Ian Scarfe. Other instruments can be added based on availability.
Chamber Music, Rehearsal and Performance (All instructors)
Classical musicians are invited to join members of the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival to rehearse and learn a significant work of classical chamber music. Repertoire considered will be decided by participants and instructors together, drawing from masterpieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, and more.
Jammin’ with Jim (one day only)
Local guitarist Jim French will be on hand to jam with fiddlers, bluegrassers, and blues musicians.
Private Lessons (Additional charge, based on availability)
Each camper may arrange for private, 1-on-1 lesson times with instructors during free times during camp. Please indicate that you would like private lessons before arriving at music camp. Rates are approximately $40 per hour, and should be discussed with instructors.
In a basic improvisation session we will talk about why improv is important to all performers on building musicianship, how it can help with our nerves during a performance, and why it's good to bring us out of our comfort zones. We will play some basic improv games and other exercises to show how easy it is to improvise on any instrument.
Performance anxiety and stage fright (Rachel Patrick, Gina Gulyas, Matthew Boyles, Ian Scarfe)
How to gain control of your body when that sudden on stage fear hits. Ways to prepare before a concert to lower the probability of bad nerves. All this can also be applied to public speaking or just general stressful situations.
Classical Music - A Listening Party (Ian Scarfe)
This will be a music-appreciation style listening party where we explore some of the most famous, influential, and mesmerizing works of classical music. Both live performance and historical recordings will be featured.
Basic Piano Maintenance (Branislav Radakovic, Ian Scarfe)
The workshop will show basic technique of tuning a unison and an octave on a piano, opening and closing the piano to get to the tuning pins, extracting piano action, changing a piano string and pins and other tips and tricks that come up along the way.
Guitar Class (Ryan Loweth)
In this workshop Ryan Loweth will explore different styles of music with all levels of guitar students. Folk, Jazz, Pop songs, classical, and other ensemble pieces for trios, quartets. Guitarists will also have opportunities to play along with fiddlers, bass, and percussionists. Different strumming and picking styles will be covered, as well as advanced chord progressions and melodic playing. More advanced students will be able to work from lead sheets or flamenco styles as well.
Flute Class (Gina Gulyas, Ryan Loweth)
This class will explore the history and style of French and Latin flute playing, accompanied by guitarist Ryan Loweth. Featuring performances, demonstrations, and a show and tell of different kinds of phrasing and color.
Basics of Woodwind playing (Gina Gulyas, Matthew Boyles)
This class will discuss proper techniques for breathing, blowing, and preserving air when playing wind instruments, including flutes, oboes, clarinets, saxophones, bassoons, and some brass instruments. It will address good posture and methods for optimal inhalation.
Strings Class (Rachel Patrick, Rolayne Bashaw)
Violins, Violas, Cellos! Fiddles and Basses! All are welcome in this combination class that will feature playing together in string groups and learning techniques from instructors. Styles covered will include everything from classical chamber music to folk and bluegrass fiddling.
Vocal Class / All Songs Considered! (Ian Scarfe, Branislav Radakovic)
Bring your favorite songs of any style (with sheet music, please!) and sing them with piano accompaniment. Vocal techniques and singing styles will be taught by Branislav Radakovic, with musical coaching by Ian Scarfe. Other instruments can be added based on availability.
Chamber Music, Rehearsal and Performance (All instructors)
Classical musicians are invited to join members of the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival to rehearse and learn a significant work of classical chamber music. Repertoire considered will be decided by participants and instructors together, drawing from masterpieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, and more.
Jammin’ with Jim (one day only)
Local guitarist Jim French will be on hand to jam with fiddlers, bluegrassers, and blues musicians.
Private Lessons (Additional charge, based on availability)
Each camper may arrange for private, 1-on-1 lesson times with instructors during free times during camp. Please indicate that you would like private lessons before arriving at music camp. Rates are approximately $40 per hour, and should be discussed with instructors.
Instructors
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Rolayne Bashaw
Rolayne Bashaw was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and began her music training at age six with piano lessons, taking up the cello at age eleven. She has performed with the California Youth Symphony, the San Jose Symphony, the Los Gatos Symphony and others. She loves to play in the orchestra pit for musicals and enjoys playing chamber music the most. Currently she is playing cello with The Manzanita Consort and is forming a new cello ensemble. She is also currently helping in the formation of the first ever Music Camp at a local children’s camp in Trinity County. 
Matthew Boyles
Matthew Boyles lives, performs, and educates in the San Francisco area of California performing with the with a number of orchestras and chamber music groups in the North Bay area. Matt enjoys teaching all levels of music from kindergarten to college at several private and public schools and at Pacific Union College. Before moving to the west coast, he was an active professional clarinetist in the Philadelphia area. Upon completing his Master’s Degree in 2011 at Temple University, he continued to perform with groups across the Northeast, including the New Haven Symphony Orchestra in Connecticut, performing Mahler’s 8th Symphony at Carnegie Hall in New York City, and as a substitute musician with the Philadelphia Orchestra. While working on his Bachelor’s Degree at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, he performed with various ensembles in the area including the Louisville Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. 
Gina Gulyas
Gina Gulyas began playing the flute at the age of eight. She graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts in 2007 and was awarded the Sunny Brown Foundation’s Performing Arts Scholarship. She went on to earn her Bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin Conservatory with Michel Debost, previously the professor of flute at the Paris Conservatoire. During this time she spent a semester at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, Hungary. There she worked with Henrik Prohle, principal flutist of the Hungarian State Opera and studied chamber music with Pal Eder, founder of the Eder String Quartet. She then moved to San Francisco where she studied with Tim Day at the SF Conservatory and earned her Master’s degree earlier this year. Gina took part in masterclasses with Joshua Smith, Gary Woodward, Jim Walker, and Maxim Rustov, principal flute of the Russian National Symphony. She also plays the alto flute. In 2012 she collaborated with Irish composer John Buckley on his Two Fantasies for Alto Flute. As principal flute with the Idyllwild Concert Orchestra she performed at Disney Hall in Los Angeles and toured with various chamber groups throughout England and Scotland. |
Ryan Loweth
Originally from Northern Virginia, Ryan Loweth began playing guitar at age 11, initially playing in a middle school classical guitar ensemble, and learning electric guitar and popular music outside. Through high school, he continued to pursue musical interests by studying music theory and joining the jazz band, as well as playing in bands outside of school. Ryan earned a B.M. in classical guitar at Arizona State University, in the Herberger College of Fine Arts, studying under Frank Koonce. Recently, he has graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, completing an M.M., studying guitar with Marc Teicholz. Ryan has also participated in master classes with artists such as Eduardo Fernandez, Flavio Cucci, Matteo Mela, Lorenzo Micheli, and Shin-Ichi Fukuda. Currently, he continues to be based in San Francisco for both performing and teaching. 
Rachel Patrick
Violinist Rachel Patrick leads a versatile musical life as both a performer and teaching artist/educator. Ms. Patrick has taken part in successful concert tours of Europe, Asia and North America, and has performed as soloist with orchestras across the United States and Europe, most recently with the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra for the German premier of Tan Dun’s “Hero” Concerto. A dedicated teacher, she is currently a teaching artist with two El Sistema programs in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys and maintains an active private studio. She completed a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Michigan studying with Stephen Shipps and Yehonatan Berick and completed a Master of Music degree at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, serving as an Associate Instructor in violin and studying with Alexander Kerr. 
Branislav Radakovic
Branislav Radakovic tuned his first piano at the age of thirteen, the day after his father showed him how to tune a unison on one key and an octave. After graduating from Music High School, he went on to College, and then to Music Academy where he majored in both music education and voice. He has worked in the field of education as a Solfeggio teacher at a Music High School in Sarajevo, and also as a voice teacher at an Elementary Music School in Paracin, a small town in Serbia. As a vocal performer he joined Goran Bregovic's Wedding and Funeral Orchestra and toured Europe and North America, which finally brought him to San Francisco. In the Bay Area, Brani has worked as a piano teacher and tuner, and as Choir Director at the Holy Trinity Church in Moraga. As a performer he has sung with the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, Martinez Opera, Livermore Valley Opera (Don Morales-Carmen), Virago Theater Company (Sharples-Madama Butterfly) and Goat Hall productions. |
Ian Scarfe
Ian Scarfe, a native of southeast Texas, is currently a music associate at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He works as a freelance musician in the San Francisco Bay Area, and each year completes several concert tours, which take him across the United States, Canada, and Europe. He is the founder and director of the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival, which is dedicated to bringing classical music to the communities in and around scenic Trinity County in Northern California. Ian is a founding member of Nonsemble 6, a group focusing on contemporary music with a special reputation for their costumed, staged, and memorized rendition of Schoenberg's “Pierrot Lunaire”. Tours have taken them across the country, including a memorable performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Ian recently performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 as a soloist with San Francisco’s Symphony Parnassus, and Beethoven's “Choral” Fantasia, Op. 80, as a soloist with the Fairbanks Summer Arts Orchestra in Fairbanks, Alaska. His recordings of Beethoven include late works such as his Violin Sonata in G, Op. 96, and Piano Sonata in A-flat, Op. 110. He recently finished a Master's Degree in 2008 and an Artist's Certificate in 2010 with the San Francisco Conservatory's prestigious Chamber Music Program, and earned a Bachelor's of Music Degree from Willamette University in 2005. His principal teachers are Paul Hersh from the SF Conservatory of Music, and Dr. Anita King from Willamette University.
Ian Scarfe, a native of southeast Texas, is currently a music associate at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He works as a freelance musician in the San Francisco Bay Area, and each year completes several concert tours, which take him across the United States, Canada, and Europe. He is the founder and director of the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival, which is dedicated to bringing classical music to the communities in and around scenic Trinity County in Northern California. Ian is a founding member of Nonsemble 6, a group focusing on contemporary music with a special reputation for their costumed, staged, and memorized rendition of Schoenberg's “Pierrot Lunaire”. Tours have taken them across the country, including a memorable performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Ian recently performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 as a soloist with San Francisco’s Symphony Parnassus, and Beethoven's “Choral” Fantasia, Op. 80, as a soloist with the Fairbanks Summer Arts Orchestra in Fairbanks, Alaska. His recordings of Beethoven include late works such as his Violin Sonata in G, Op. 96, and Piano Sonata in A-flat, Op. 110. He recently finished a Master's Degree in 2008 and an Artist's Certificate in 2010 with the San Francisco Conservatory's prestigious Chamber Music Program, and earned a Bachelor's of Music Degree from Willamette University in 2005. His principal teachers are Paul Hersh from the SF Conservatory of Music, and Dr. Anita King from Willamette University.
