PIANO EXPLORERS SUMMER CAMP

Project Info

Project Description

Age: Rising kindergarteners to rising 2nd graders
Type: Camp
Term: Summer
Camp Length: 1 or 2 Weeks

Schedule:

  • Week 1: July 10 – 14 (Monday – Friday) – FULL | Waiting List Only
  • Week 2: July 17 – 21 (Monday – Friday) – FULL | Waiting List Only
Duration: 9:00am – 3:00pm (8:30am drop off)
Class Size: 4 students per piano class; 15 students per group class

Price:

  • 1 Week: $750
  • 2 Weeks: $1400 for two weeks (save $100 for 2 weeks)
Instructors: BKCM Piano Friends, piano and early childhood faculty

Prerequisite:

  • Beginner: No experience necessary
  • Intermediate: 1-2 years of lessons
Contact: 718.622.3300, info@bkcm.org

** Enrollment for this camp is full. To add your name the waiting list, please email info@bkcm.org. **

Embark on a Piano Journey This Summer!

Head to the keys this summer with our popular Piano Explorers Camp—a fun, interactive approach to learning piano and developing musicianship skills. Our engaging curriculum will have students reading and playing music in no time. Both beginner level and intermediate level students will learn short musical pieces and discover the joy of playing music with fellow young maestros in a piano ensemble.

The Piano Explorers curriculum is a fun approach to learning the piano that engages movement, ear-training games and improvisation, and is designed to improve students’ tracking, hand-eye coordination and listening skills. Students who are already taking private lessons work together to perform independent arrangements of popular songs. 

In addition to a daily piano class, each day is packed with fun activities such as music and movement, world drumming, singing songs, story time, creating art and lots of playtime outdoors!

Sample Schedule

8:30am – 9:00am  – Drop-off
9:00am – 10:00am – Music and Movement
10:00am – 11:00am – Piano Class
11:00am – 11:30am – Lunch in the Garden
11:30am – 1:00pm – Outdoor Play
1:00pm – 2:00pm – Story / Art / Relaxing Time
2:00pm – 2:45pm – World Drumming
2:45pm – 3:00pm – Goodbye Circle Time

After Care for Piano Explorers (A Special Program in Collaboration with Dancewave)

Extend your camper’s day further with After Care at Dancewave, a community focused dance studio and school based three blocks from BKCM at 182 4th Avenue. Utilising their versatile studio space, their teaching artists offer a relaxing, fun and engaging environment in which to wind down at the end of a busy day at camp!

Each day after Piano Explorers, BKCM faculty will walk any students scheduled for After Care at Dancewave to the Dancewave Studio, 182 4th Ave (at Degraw Street). Caregivers can pick-up their kids at Dancewave at 5pm.

After Care at Dancewave runs from 3pm-5pm. It is $40 per day or $200 for the week. Please sign up through the Dancewave links below. All After Care at Dancewave refunds and other policies will be handled by Dancewave.

Registration Info

For more information and to apply for this camp online click here. Call 718-622-3300 to speak with a registrar.

BKCM Summer Camp Policies

There are no refunds or credits at BKCM for the Summer term. Students have until June 30, 2023 to request changes to existing summer registrations. Please visit bkcm.org/registration for a complete list of policies on withdrawals and refunds.

BKCM Covid Policies

BKCM currently requires all students age 5 and up to be fully COVID vaccinated in order to attend. For more details on our COVID policies please visit bkcm.org/covidpolicies.

Click here for our Summer 2023 policies. For complete information on our registration process and policies, click here.

Financial Aid is Available for qualifying students.

Current Financial Aid recipients can email kris.mandapat@bkcm.org.

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