Steppingstone Summer Music Academy To Host Violin Students from Thailand.

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI—Steppingstone School for Gifted Education announced today that they will host nine (9) violin students from Thailand to their 2^nd annual Steppingstone Summer Music Academy (SSMA). Tami Morse, Co-Director, Steppingstone Music Academy, who is completing her Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at Stony Brook University in New York stated that the students are between the ages of 11 and 19 and will be accompanied by their instructor, Lin Wang. Morse, working with colleague Zheng Jennifer Huang, was able to arrange for the students to travel to the United States to attend the Academy. The group plans on performing at various venues featuring performances of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, among other repertoire. During their time at the SSMA the students will receive private lessons, chamber music coaching, classes in music history and theory as well as play in a small orchestra where Plymouth Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Canton conductor Nan Washburn will visit them for a guest coaching. According to Morse the students are excited to experience the United States and get the opportunity to get to know their American peers. The trip will conclude with a performance at the Steppingstone School on Friday July 25 at 7 p.m. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend.