Summer at Setnor is filled with summer camps, faculty and student travel, and our annual summer orchestra. Our summer camps are unlike those offered anywhere else. The Girls Leadership Academy for Music (GLAM) directed by Setnor Assistant Director Amy Mertz, is a unique program is for girls aged 15-18 interested in honing their music leadership skills. It was offered for the first time last summer. The word spread about the great experiences the campers had and twice as many enrolled in this summer's July 6-11 offering. The girls learn about leadership through workshops, guest speakers, and mentorship, with as hands-on musical leadership experiences conducting, coaching, and rehearsing small ensembles. Our Music Technology Access Project (MTAP) will be offered for the fourth year this summer with a culminating concert on August 8. This unique program takes a group of graduate students in music education and pairs them with audio engineers to learn how to adapt a recording studio for students with special needs. They then offer a summer camp to local special needs youth. This program's unique approach and success has been the topic of research sessions presented by Setnor faculty members and program leaders James Abbott  and John Coggiola  across the United States and in Europe.

Setnor faculty and students are scattered around the globe performing, attending or teaching master classes, and presenting research. Setnor will have a particularly strong showing this year at the International Society for Music Education (ISME) World Conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Faculty members Deborah Cunningham, Elisa Dekaney, and Juliet Hess, and music education graduate student Rachel Dentinger (BM '13, MM '15), will each present workshops and research papers. Setnor Director Patrick Jones, who is chair of the ISME Commission on Policy, will present a research paper at the Commission's 17th Biennial International Seminar in Natal, Brazil, the preceding week. He will facilitate strategic planning sessions at the ISME World Conference in Porto Alegre.

Finally, the annual Summer Festival Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. James Tapia, will present a concert on Monday, August 4. Repertoire this year will include Copland's Appalachian Spring, Gershwin's An American in Paris, and John Williams Epics. Come escape the heat and enjoy some wonderful music!