Fine arts summer music festival

Chicago-based Fine Arts Music Society will hold its 2012 Fine Arts Music Society Summer Music Festival in Brown Co. from July 17-21, 2012.

Students wishing to apply must submit an application, along with a $50 application fee, by June 20. The fee will be applied toward tuition for students who enroll.

Applications received after June 20 will be considered for open positions.

Complete details can be found at fineartsmusic.org.

The two-week festival will feature daily private lessons, master classes, performance classes, Sonata class, scale class and an evening lecture series on German composers and their contemporaries in literature, art and other topics.

Students will take part in select chamber music ensembles and all students will perform in at least one of two Young Artist concerts.

Festival staff will also hold excursions to the Brown County State Park and a tour of Indiana University's prestigious Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington. Additional activities will include hiking, biking, fishing, horseback riding and canoeing.

FAMS was founded in 2002 by artistic director David Yonan.

Faculty for the festival includes Yonan, a violinist, pianist and scholar Svetlana Belsky, clarinetist Cory Tiffin and the following pedagogues: Myra Patterson (violin/viola), Nazar Dzhuryn (cello), Saori Chiba (piano) and Susan Merdinger (piano).