Welcome to Eastman Summer!
Eastman Summer offers high level students a diverse, individualized and world-class music education experience through the Eastman School of Music. Explore the excitement and rigor of a conservatory setting with week-long institutes devoted to your instrument or specialties or collegiate classes in Music Education, Music History, Music Leadership and Music Theory.
2025 Information:
Eastman Summer offers in-person and online options for 2025
Eastman Summer 2025 programs include favorites such as Alexander Technique, Choral Masterworks, and Summer Jazz Studies as well as our one-week institutes for flute, organ, saxophone, horn, trombone, trumpet, and tuba/euphonium.
Singers, voice teachers, and choral conductors can benefit from our online workshops: Vocal Pedagogy and Alexander Technique.
Through Eastman Summer, collegiate students have the opportunity to attend summer classes in Music Education, Music History, and Music Theory. Students can also participate in the Institute for Music Leadership courses as part of the programs MA in Music Leadership.
Looking for Eastman Community Music School Summer Programs?
- ECMS Summer Programs Listing
- For more information contact the ECMS Office:
Email community@esm.rochester.edu or call (585) 274-1400.
Students love Eastman Summer!
“A very high-level program and an amazing chance to improve your musicianship.” — 2023 participant
“The institute covered all that I was hoping to gain and more. I found that the foundational skills were cemented and built upon for each member. The holistic approach was very effective and rich.”— 2023 participant
“My favorite part of the program was hearing so much music and learning about so much music. It was a lot of fun!” — 2023 participant
Land Acknowledgment
We acknowledge with respect the Seneca Nation, known as the “Great Hill People” and “Keepers of the Western Door” of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. We take this opportunity to thank the people whose ancestral lands the Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester currently occupy in Rochester, New York.
