Schedule: Week 1: July 6-10 (7-9 pm) Week 2: July 13-17 (7-9 pm)
Price:
Summer 2026 Pricing TBA
Instructors:
Location: BKCM
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL! All BKCM camps are 5% off until March 31st. Apply today!
About the Jazz Lab Summer Intensive for Adults
On your way home from work? Come jam!
This invigorating summer session is open to experienced string, woodwind, brass, piano and drum/percussion players – and vocalists – who are looking to expand their jazz knowledge and improvisational skills. Taught by Brooklyn-based jazz legends and multi-instrumental performing artists Peter Apfelbaum and Matt Pavolka, students hone these skills and refine their knowledge of chord progressions and rhythms core to classic jazz repertoire, blues forms and standards from the Great American Songbook. The weeklong intensive culminates in a public performance at the BKCM Concert Hall.
The Summer Intensive is open by audition to students who have prior experience with the piano, bass, guitar, horns, strings or voice. No experience in Jazz is required. Please note that this is an intensive program, and we ask that students commit to attending all five evenings of the session!
How to Apply
Applications for Summer 2026 will open soon.
Step 1. Using any smartphone device, record your required video audition by following the Audition Materials.
Step 2. Upload your video audition and complete the Summer Intensive application (not available yet).
*Adult Jazz Ensembles students registered for the Fall ’25 and/or Spring ’26 program at BKCM are not required to submit a video. Instead, call 718-622-3300 or email summercamp@bkcm.org to register.
Jazz Instrumental Lab Faculty*
Peter Apfelbaum – Saxophone, Piano, Drums, Director
Matt Pavolka – Bass
Elijah J. Thomas – Jazz Program Director
BKCM Summer Policies
There are no refunds or credits for private lessons, camps or summer programs.
All registrations for summer programs and camps are final and there are no withdrawals.
For more info on summer policies, visit the link below.
Financial aid is available for qualifying students. Visit the link below to apply.
