SONGWRITER / MUSIC PRODUCER / EDUCATOR wanted to be MUSIC STUDIO DIRECTOR at SLEEP AWAY CAMP !

Must have considerable workshop facilitation and/or classroom teaching experience.

Experience teaching private lessons typically does not suffice.

Must have skills necessary to record and produce an album.

Must be positive minded, fun-spirited, energetic, and a consistently supportive contributor to our camp community.

This is an 8 week job commitment.

APPLICATIONS ARE REVIEWED ON A ROLLING BASIS. PLEASE NOTE ONLY COMPLETED APPLICATIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED.

Deadline for applications to be submitted is SUNDAY MAY 23, 2021

STEP 1: Please send a cover letter and resume to info@musicascension.com.

STEP 2: Please fill out our on-line application at the button below.

SUMMER CAMP MUSIC STUDIO DIRECTOR Application Form

Name

First Name

Last Name

Age

Current Location

Where Did You Find Our Job Posting?

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Questionnaire

Please describe the range and depth of your experience facilitating collaborative workshops for groups of at least 5 students.

Please briefly and broadly describe how you have structured your lesson plans in order to effectively facilitate collaborative songwriting workshops with youth.

What is your greatest strength as a leader?

Please share with us the essence of your teaching philosophy.

Please describe the depth and range of your experience in Recording and Music Production.

What software platforms do you use to record and/or produce music?

What genres of music are you most steeped in as a player and as a producer?

What is your primary instrument? What other instruments can you play?

What approaches do you take in order to handle resistance from students?

Five adjectives to best describe you as a teacher?

Throughout the course of a lesson, what methods do you utilize in order to continually assess the levels of interest, understanding, and comfort of your students?

Do you have experience working at a summer camp? If so please describe.

Please describe your level of interest in being part of the camp community?

Please tell us your level of comfort with relocating for 8 weeks this summer?

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Music Ascension is looking for an inspiring, greatly skilled, organized, and enthusiastic Songwriter/Music Producer/Educator to work with campers (ages 8-15) at highly regarded sleep-away summer camps in collaboration with some of our camp partnerships in Upstate New York and Eastern Pennsylvania.

For over 20 years, Music Ascension has worked to inspire camp communities by helping young people discover, develop, and share their creative voices by writing and recording their own original works. We have designed and built Pro Tools, Ableton, and Reason equipped multi-room recording studios in which campers write and record their own songs.

Classes to be led include Songwriting & Recording, Beat Production, Bucket Drumming, and Collaborative Musical Games.

As Music Studio Program Director, you’ll have the opportunity to facilitate the creation and production of an album (8-15 songs) that features the original music and lyrics written & recorded by the campers over the course of the summer!

Music Ascension will provide mastering engineer and graphic designer.

IF NECESSARY, we will also provide mixing engineer.

Applicants MUST BE flexible, positive-minded, and able to help cultivate a fun, educational, and inspired CAMP community. Though you will have the ability to use the recording studio for your own work at night, please know this is not an Artist-In-Residence position and you will often need to use non-teaching time for session prep as well as post production responsibilities.

Additional Information:
Prior Camp experience a BIG plus!
Salary + Room & Board provided at camp.

Accommodations: Private Single Room in staff dorm style housing.

STAFF ORIENTATION BEGINS: varies slightly depending upon matched placement with particular camp. Approx June 16, 2021

CAMPERS ARRIVE: June 26, 2021

CAMPERS DEPART: August 14, 2021

This is an 8 week job commitment.