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Music Composition and Performance
Sunday July 6 - Friday, August 15
The Fusion Arts Exchange (FAX) is an educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. A multinational group of 18-20 undergraduates from six nations will spend more than five weeks in an intensive program studying individual and collaborative music composition, individual musical coaching, instrument-specific instruction, group lessons, American music history, and individual and group performance opportunities. Secondary areas of study include topics in music industry, and recording studio techniques. Bureau-designated participating countries for this program include: Brazil, India, Ireland, Mali, and South Africa.
All students will be in residence at Northeastern University in Boston. In addition there are three educational study tours to New York City, the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, MA, and Washington, D.C. The three-day visit to the Tanglewood Music Center is in collaboration with the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Office of Education and Community Program. The Fusion Arts Exchange program will cover all participants' travel expenses to and from Boston, lodging and meals in Boston and on the educational study tours, textbooks and musical scores, private performance or composition lessons, and will provide a per diem for other incidental expenses. U.S. participants in the previous Fusion Arts Exchange program included students from the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins, M.I.T., and Northeastern University.
How to apply (U.S. Students Only, Participants from non-U.S. countries are chosen by the U.S. State Department, and should not submit an application to Northeastern University.):
This opportunity is for citizens of the United States between the ages of 18 and 22, who are currently undergraduate students studying music composition and/or performance. Each applicant must e-mail a letter of interest, resume, and a letter of support from their primary instructor to Anthony Paul De Ritis, a.deritis@neu.edu. Letters of support may be e-mailed directly by the instructor. Application Deadline for U.S. Students is May 1, 2008
Anthony Paul De Ritis
Administrative Director, Fusion Arts Exchange
Chair, Music Department, Northeastern University
617-373-3914
a.deritis@neu.edu
http://www.deritis.com
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2007 Program Archive (.doc)
U.S. Branch of the U.S. State Department
Participants in Study of the U.S. Institutes are among the approximately 30,000 individuals who participate in exchanges managed by the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) each year. Other ECA exchange programs include the Fulbright Program and the International Visitor Leadership Program. Through a range of academic and professional exchanges, the Bureau seeks to increase mutual understanding between the United States and other countries.
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