What is a Pipe Organ Encounter?

Week-long summer event for students age 13-18 to discover the King of Instruments.

June 19-24, 2011

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Highlights of the Delaware Chapter POE

•Private lessons designed for each student

•Master classes, concerts, and instruction with faculty including Donald Sutherland, Nathan Laube, Gregory D'Agostino, Stephan Harouff, Marvin Mills, Edward Moore, Mark Pacoe, John Sheridan, Jeffrey Alban, Michael Britt, David Furniss, Jack Burnam, Julie Vidrick Evans, David Herman, David Kelley, and Tracy Richardson.

•Performance in student recital

•Trip to David M. Storey’s pipe organ shop in Baltimore, and the newly-restored E.M. Skinner Organ in Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church

•Pool party with outdoor activities

•Silent film and organ crawl at the Dickinson High School Kimball Theatre Organ

•Organs by Brombaugh, Gabriel Kney, Noack, Casavant, E.M. Skinner, Aeolian, Kimball, Austin, Schantz

•Trip to Longwood Gardens to hear the famous organ and carillon (10,010 pipes!)

Welcome to the Delaware Pipe Organ Encounter!

Sponsored by the American Guild of Organists, Pipe Organ Encounters (POE) are week-long summer camps for students age 13‐18 interested in discovering the pipe organ. The Delaware event will offer daily private instruction at the pipe organ, time to hear and play interesting pipe organs, a visit to a pipe organ building shop, organ recitals by some of America’s finest organists, and even a fun pool party with outdoor activities!

The Delaware POE takes place June 19 – 24, 2011 in Wilmington, Delaware.

Wilmington lies in the heart of the Atlantic seaboard, equidistant from Washington, D. C. and New York City, with easy access via airplane (Philadelphia International Airport), train (Wilmington Amtrak Station), and bus.

We invite you to join us for a weeklong musical adventure. Come and discover why the pipe organ is called the King of Instruments!

Enrollment requirements:

POE is designed for teenagers, ages 13-18, who have achieved an intermediate level of keyboard proficiency. Previous organ study is not required.

The POE committee may choose to grant special consideration on an individual basis for admission of a potential registrant whose age or training is different from the guidelines. Registration limited to 30 students.

Registration fee: $450
Early Registration fee: $425 (through April 19, 2011)

Registration for the Delaware POE is closed as of Monday, April 11, 2011.  We are at capacity with 30 students registered.  Students whose registrations are received on or after April 11 will be put on a waiting list and will be contacted if there is a cancellation. 

All cancellations received before May 20 will be refunded. All cancellations after May 20 will require a $50 cancellation fee. No refunds for cancellation will be made after June 3.

Registration fee includes all instruction, housing, meals, transportation for all POE events, admission to special events, class materials, lesson book, POE T-shirt, and a one-year Student Membership in the American Guild of Organists. The cost of transportation to and from Wilmington, Delaware is the student’s responsibility.

Housing

Housing will be on the campus of Delaware College of Art and Design (DCAD), Wilmington, in air-conditioned, double-occupancy dorm rooms.

All meals will be provided.

There will be full-time supervision by POE staff.

Scholarship assistance is available through the American Guild of Organists.
Contact Delaware Chapter POE.

For additional scholarship assistance, the POE committee suggests students
contact their local AGO Chapters and religious institutions.

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