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The Songbook Academy®

Songbook Academy week is coming up soon, July 16 - 23, 2022. Learn more about the week's in-person and livestream events!
  
The Songbook Academy is a national summer intensive for high school-aged singers who have an interest in classic Broadway, jazz and popular music, also referred to as the American Songbook. Students have the opportunity to work with music industry pros, award winning singers and performers, educators from top University music and theater programs, and talented peers from across the country for a life-changing week of professional training and performance opportunities.
 
Forty students have been invited to participate in the week-long intensive on the campus of the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana, the home of the Great American Songbook Foundation, from July 16-23, 2022.
 
Tickets are available now for public masterclasses and performances throughout the week. Most events are pay-what-you-can with a livestream option for national audiences.  Learn more about the week's schedule of events.
 
The 2023 application season will open in the winter of 2022.

 

 

 

Active high school students who are U.S. residents and live in the fifty continental United States are invited to apply.
 
To apply for the program, singers submit video recordings of themselves performing two contrasting selections from the Great American Songbook (learn more about repertoire criteria). ALL Songbook Academy applicants receive written feedback from the screeners who assess their performances, regardless of acceptance status. Feedback will be sent to applicants closely following acceptance notifications, which will be announced no later than April 15, 2022.   
 
View our application for more information on how to apply - it's never too early to start planning for 2023!

 

 

Listen to our Students

Additional videos available at our YouTube channel.

 

"On a Wonderful Day Like Today"/"It's a Good Day" (2019)
July 30, 2019
"On a Wonderful Day Like Today"/"It's a Good Day" (2019)
Chris Santiago (2019) - "Mr. Paganini"
July 26, 2019
Chris Santiago (2019) - "Mr. Paganini"
Sadie Fridley (2019) - "Day by Day"
July 24, 2019
Sadie Fridley (2019) - "Day by Day"
Alexandria Reese (2020) - "My Man"
August 17, 2020
Alexandria Reese (2020) - "My Man"
AnaÏs Reno (2018) - "Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues"
August 20, 2018
AnaÏs Reno (2018) - "Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues"
George Walker (2017) - "A Day in the Life of a Fool"
August 07, 2017
George Walker (2017) - "A Day in the Life of a Fool"

 

 

Quick Links:

Click below for FAQs about the application process, attending Songbook Academy week and past Guest Mentors!

 

 

Songbook Academy® Statements

Hear what everyone is saying about their Songbook Academy experience!

Step Inside Songbook Academy
November 27, 2019
Step Inside Songbook Academy
Tony Award nominee Jarrod Spector: There's Nothing Quite Like the Songbook Academy
February 08, 2017
Tony Award nominee Jarrod Spector: There's Nothing Quite Like the Songbook Academy
Maddie Baillio: What I Learned at the Songbook Academy
January 05, 2017
Maddie Baillio: What I Learned at the Songbook Academy

 

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Program Guidelines: The 2022 Songbook Academy® Summer Intensive (the “Academy”) is sponsored by the Great American Songbook Foundation, Inc. (“Sponsor”) headquartered at One Carter Green, Carmel, Indiana 46032.

 

Read full 2022 Program Guidelines.