Summer Immersion

The cornerstone of summer lessons at Kirk’s Studio. An amazing approach to accelerating your progress. An hour a day for a week with your private instructor. It’s like your own private, summer music camp. Most students will make two months’ progress per session. We encourage every student to do at least one session of Immersion.
Select weeks available.
Tuition – $295 Early bird discounts available before May 13.

Immersion Plus

For students wanting a little extra out of their Immersion experience. All students who do Immersion either before or after the Immersion Plus block, will either stay an extra hour or arrive an hour before their private lessons. This Master Class will focus on performance and musicianship. Every student will perform and receive master coaching on the performance. Talk about a great way to really hone your skills! Week culminates with a recording of each student’s performance.
Select weeks available. Call for schedule. Just $55!

Piano Academy:

The camps will be a fun environment as we embark on the journey of laying the groundwork of basic piano techniques and theory to ensure a successful beginning or expansion of the piano experience. We will learn scales, cadences, arpeggios, fun and easy to play songs along with the skill of reading music. If you’re looking for refinement and progression of what you already know or have never played a note in your life then you will thrive in this camp. Ready for the adventure? See you this summer!
10am-12pm
Tuition – $150

Piano for Teens and Adults!

This week-long camp will be your jumping off point if you’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano. Master instructor Nancie Koziel Tobison is not only an amazing teacher and musician, she’s a total delight to work with. Time to stop making excuses and time to start realizing your dream to play the piano!
12pm-2pm
Tuition – $150 at Desert Ridge Studio

Music on the Brain:

Learn about what makes music so irresistibly catchy! Here, a focus of music, emotion and art fuse to bring students a new understanding of why we love music. The camp includes: Basic art history, associating colors and words to sounds and pieces from all eras, associating visual art and paintings with famous compositions, studying ‘earworms’ (catchy tunes), and understanding storytelling in large compositions (symphonies, chamber music). The culmination presentation will feature select drawings, colorings and paintings made by students, inspired by a composition of their choice AND/OR a live performance of spoken word with a piece of choice.
10am-12pm
Tuition – $150

Songwriting Camp:

Always wanted to find a killer melody for those lyrics of yours? This camp will give you the tools to develop basic melody and harmony writing. Learn how to set words to melody, and melody to words. Bring in pre-existing lyrics, poetry, or take part in a poetry brainstorming workshop to develop a song that expresses who you are. Camps includes: Basic theory work, activities and exercises at the piano, ear training skills, analyzing today’s most popular hits, pop song structure. The culmination performance will highlight students’ original works. All instruments invited!
12pm-2pm
Tuition – $150

Violin & Viola Festival:

Perfect for the beginner that wants to try out violin or viola! This festival will include master classes, workshops on how to get the most out of your practice, an opportunity to learn fiddle or world music, improvisation for string players, theory and ear training games, as well as technique workshops.
10am-12pm
Tuition – $120

Actor’s Workshop:

A camp ages 6-13, “Clean Up Kids” offers basic instruction in voice, piano, stage movement, projection, swing choir techniques, acting skills, guitar, conducting, and original composition. Other instruments are invited to participate and non-C instruments will be provided with transposed music. Particular emphasis will be placed on stage, individual and ensemble techniques, as well as both choir and solo vocal styles. The camp concludes with an “environmentally friendly theme, Broadway-style show.”
12pm-2pm
Tuition – $150

Songwriting Camp:

Always wanted to find a killer melody for those lyrics of yours? This camp will give you the tools to develop basic melody and harmony writing. Learn how to set words to melody, and melody to words. Bring in pre-existing lyrics, poetry, or take part in a poetry brainstorming workshop to develop a song that expresses who you are. Camps includes: Basic theory work, activities and exercises at the piano, ear training skills, analyzing today’s most popular hits, pop song structure. The culmination performance will highlight students’ original works. All instruments invited!
12pm-2pm
Tuition – $150

Guitar Camp:

Just getting started on guitar? Join us for this fun, lively, 2-hour class to get you up and running and provide you with a needed summer boost. We’ll make sure that what you’re learning will help you with whatever style of music you’d like to play.
10am-12pm
Tuition – $120

Drummers Clinic:

This summer come be a part of an exciting, fun, and informative drum clinic! This week long clinic is for young aspiring drummers that wouldn’t mind learning with a big group of other kids their age. The first day would be review and introduction. The rest of the week will be learning advanced rudiments, advanced drum kit technique, and taking any questions or requests to learn anything of their desire. We ask that the children have a year or more experience for the sake of moving forward and progressing. If not, and you’re feeling brave to really push yourself to learn then come join and have fun!
GROUP A (Ages 9 and under) 10am-11:30pm
GROUP B (Ages 10 and up) 12pm-1:30pm
Tuition – $150

Piano Academy II:

For intermediate and advanced piano students. For two hours a day, we’ll help you make more progress than you ever thought possible. Focus on technique, theory, improvisation, chords, composition, jazz voicings, soloing and how to practice correctly! If you’ve been dying to learn how to play something in addition to classical music, this is the camp you’ve been waiting for!
12pm-2pm
Tuition – $175

Piano Academy:

The camps will be a fun environment as we embark on the journey of laying the groundwork of basic piano techniques and theory to ensure a successful beginning or expansion of the piano experience. We will learn scales, cadences, arpeggios, fun and easy to play songs along with the skill of reading music. If you’re looking for refinement and progression of what you already know or have never played a note in your life then you will thrive in this camp. Ready for the adventure? See you this summer!
12pm-2pm
Tuition – $150

The DaVinci Code of Music:

Discover hidden messages in some of the world’s most renowned compositions! This camp will focus on listening analysis, with assisted score study. Students will discover the historical and socio-economic context of pieces from the eighteenth century up to present day. The camp includes: Discussion about expectations in music, form analysis, the masters of composition, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. This class will improve students’ ability to relate to music and develop strong tools to express themselves on their instruments.
10am-12pm
Tuition – $120

Guitar Camp:

Just getting started on guitar or ukulele? Join us for this fun, lively camp to get you up and running and provide you with a needed summer boost. This is a great class to introduce students to the basics of guitar and the possibilities associated with playing the instrument. We will explore a variety of musical and guitar concepts such as picking, strumming, chords, chord progressions to blues and popular songs, notes in first position, simple melodies, improvising, and scales. Students will also get a chance to play as a group and with recordings.
6pm-8pm
Tuition – $120

Rock University:

For all ages, some experience very helpful. Monday: Songwriting clinic, divide into groups, pick a band name, a cover song and start writing an original song. Tuesday: individual instrumental clinics. Wednesday: workshop for all campers and parents, “So You Have a Band…Now What?” Thursday: Recording Studio! Friday: Finale Concert for friends and family.
6pm-8pm
Tuition – $345, bring a friend discount $25

String Quartet/Chamber Music Camp:

Chamber music is the most beneficial collaborative experience for all players. At all levels, students learn leadership skills that translate into their everyday relationships. Here, children will be grouped into a traditional string quartet (2 violins, viola, cello), or a mixed chamber group (possibilities include piano, violin cello; piano cello clarinet; violin duo; violin cello duo; woodwind chamber groups) and discover the tools needed for a final polished performance, without conductor! Students will strengthen general technique on their instrument, including tone production, rhythm skills, score reading, sight-reading, decision-making, structure and form analysis of pieces, and storytelling. The culmination performance will feature all chamber groups performing an assigned piece (based on level of group).
12pm-2pm
Tuition – $150

AZ Beat Lab:

A camp for everyone with no experience necessary! Create and arrange beats using digital devices and apps. The Beat Lab will facilitate beat making, electronic music production, and sampling techniques. Throughout the week, participants will have the opportunity to collaborate, play, perform, and share their creations. Students should bring headphones for the camp and may bring any instruments (for sampling), and a laptop or tablet if they have one.
Ages 8 and up: 12pm-2pm
Tuition – $120

Sight-reading Genius for Strings:

Scared of learning new pieces? Not sure how to tackle pages of new notes? Meghan will bring her skills as a soloist, chamber and orchestral player to teach students to understand patterns in music by developing better rhythm and ear training skills. Camp includes: One on one work, experiencing new works from different eras, everything from classical, romantic, to contemporary pop. Basic note-reading drills and unique ear training. This camp will allow students to read pieces up to a grade level higher for their instrument.
10am-12pm
Tuition – $150

Piano and Strings Improv:

Featuring guest speaker, teaching artist from New York Juliana Witt. Meghan and Juliana will provide the tools to experiment on your instrument, including new technologies to create unique sounds on piano and stringed instruments. Students will be paired into duos and trios. The improv camp will include: one on one time with both coaches, listening experiences, brainstorming, recording, notation, storytelling. The culmination performance will feature improv works from all groups.
12pm-2pm
Tuition – $195

Children’s Musical:

Celebrate Summer fun with a fun original musical for 5-8 year olds! Children will do crafts, learn about acting, singing, and do simple dance moves! Performances will be held on the final day of camp for “Gone Fishin”.
Group A- 9am-12pm Group B- 1pm-4pm
Tuition – $175

Magical Music Camp

Come explore the world of music through science and art! Students will get to see sound waves, perform a light show, create a painting and many more exciting activities. You will explore music concepts through participation in games, songs, stories, and fun activities including creating a painting, . Join us for this fun and exciting camp!
12pm-2pm
Tuition – $120 at Desert Ridge Studio

Piano Academy:

The camps will be a fun environment as we embark on the journey of laying the groundwork of basic piano techniques and theory to ensure a successful beginning or expansion of the piano experience. We will learn scales, cadences, arpeggios, fun and easy to play songs along with the skill of reading music. If you’re looking for refinement and progression of what you already know or have never played a note in your life then you will thrive in this camp. Ready for the adventure? See you this summer!
10am-12pm
Tuition – $150

Piano Academy II:

For intermediate and advanced piano students. For two hours a day, we’ll help you make more progress than you ever thought possible. Focus on technique, theory, improvisation, chords, composition, jazz voicings, soloing and how to practice correctly! If you’ve been dying to learn how to play something in addition to classical music, this is the camp you’ve been waiting for!
12pm-2pm
Tuition – $175

The DaVinci Code of Music:

Discover hidden messages in some of the world’s most renowned compositions! This camp will focus on listening analysis, with assisted score study. Students will discover the historical and socio-economic context of pieces from the eighteenth century up to present day. The camp includes: Discussion about expectations in music, form analysis, the masters of composition, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. This class will improve students’ ability to relate to music and develop strong tools to express themselves on their instruments.
10am-12pm
Tuition – $120

Music and the Brain:

Learn about what makes music so irresistibly catchy! Here, a focus of music, emotion and art fuse to bring students a new understanding of why we love music. The camp includes: Basic art history, associating colors and words to sounds and pieces from all eras, associating visual art and paintings with famous compositions, studying ‘earworms’ (catchy tunes), and understanding storytelling in large compositions (symphonies, chamber music). The culmination presentation will feature select drawings, colorings and paintings made by students, inspired by a composition of their choice AND/OR a live performance of spoken word with a piece of choice.
12pm-2pm
Tuition – $120

Broadway Beat:

Do you hear the beat? It’s the sound of people entering the theater on the most famous street in the world. It’s the sound of dancing feet and orchestras tuning up. It’s the sound dreams are made of. It’s the sound of BROADWAY! Celebrate musical theatre with hits from Hairspray, The Music Man, The King and I, Wicked, Rent, and Grease, and a medley of favorites from George M. Cohan! Students will learn basics in acting, singing as they prepare to share all they learned about Broadway in their half hour performance on the last day of camp! Ages 9 and up.
10am-3pm (All Day Camp)
Tuition – $295 Bring a friend discount $25

Drummers Clinic:

This summer come be a part of an exciting, fun, and informative drum clinic! This week long clinic is for young aspiring drummers that wouldn’t mind learning with a big group of other kids their age. The first day would be review and introduction. The rest of the week will be learning advanced rudiments, advanced drum kit technique, and taking any questions or requests to learn anything of their desire. We ask that the children have a year or more experience for the sake of moving forward and progressing. If not, and you’re feeling brave to really push yourself to learn then come join and have fun!
GROUP A (Ages 9 and under) 10am-11:30pm
GROUP B (Ages 10 and up) 12pm-1:30pm
Tuition – $150

Sight-reading Genius for Strings:

Scared of learning new pieces? Not sure how to tackle pages of new notes? Meghan will bring her skills as a soloist, chamber and orchestral player to teach students to understand patterns in music by developing better rhythm and ear training skills. Camp includes: One on one work, experiencing new works from different eras, everything from classical, romantic, to contemporary pop. Basic note-reading drills and unique ear training. This camp will allow students to read pieces up to a grade level higher for their instrument.
10am-12pm
Tuition – $150

Piano and Strings Improv:

Featuring guest speaker, teaching artist from New York Juliana Witt. Meghan and Juliana will provide the tools to experiment on your instrument, including new technologies to create unique sounds on piano and stringed instruments. Students will be paired into duos and trios. The improv camp will include: one on one time with both coaches, listening experiences, brainstorming, recording, notation, storytelling. The culmination performance will feature improv works from all groups.
12pm-2pm
Tuition – $195

Rock University:

For all ages, some experience very helpful. Monday: Songwriting clinic, divide into groups, pick a band name, a cover song and start writing an original song. Tuesday: individual instrumental clinics. Wednesday: workshop for all campers and parents, “So You Have a Band…Now What?” Thursday: Recording Studio! Friday: Finale Concert for friends and family.
6pm-8pm
Tuition – $345, bring a friend discount $25

Piano Academy:

The camps will be a fun environment as we embark on the journey of laying the groundwork of basic piano techniques and theory to ensure a successful beginning or expansion of the piano experience. We will learn scales, cadences, arpeggios, fun and easy to play songs along with the skill of reading music. If you’re looking for refinement and progression of what you already know or have never played a note in your life then you will thrive in this camp. Ready for the adventure? See you this summer!
12pm-2pm
Tuition – $150

Piano for Kids!

Master teacher Nancie Koziel Tobison will keep young students engaged and excited about the piano all week with this beginning piano camp. Just for kids in grades 1-3! Nancie is a very experienced veteran and her enthusiasm for piano is contagious. The kids in this camp are in for a real treat!
12pm-2pm
Tuition – $150 at Desert Ridge Studio

Guitar Camp:

Just getting started on guitar or ukulele? Join us for this fun, lively camp to get you up and running and provide you with a needed summer boost. This is a great class to introduce students to the basics of guitar and the possibilities associated with playing the instrument. We will explore a variety of musical and guitar concepts such as picking, strumming, chords, chord progressions to blues and popular songs, notes in first position, simple melodies, improvising, and scales. Students will also get a chance to play as a group and with recordings.
10am-2pm
Tuition – $120

AZ Beat Lab:

A camp for everyone with no experience necessary! Create and arrange beats using digital devices and apps. The Beat Lab will facilitate beat making, electronic music production, and sampling techniques. Throughout the week, participants will have the opportunity to collaborate, play, perform, and share their creations. Students should bring headphones for the camp and may bring any instruments (for sampling), and a laptop or tablet if they have one. Ages 9 and up.
12-2pm
Tuition – $120

Actor’s Workshop:

A camp ages 6-13, “Clean Up Kids” offers basic instruction in voice, piano, stage movement, projection, swing choir techniques, acting skills, guitar, conducting, and original composition. Other instruments are invited to participate and non-C instruments will be provided with transposed music. Particular emphasis will be placed on stage, individual and ensemble techniques, as well as both choir and solo vocal styles. The camp concludes with an “environmentally friendly theme, Broadway-style show.”
10am-12pm
Tuition – $150

Musical Theater

This camp is your guide to the world of musical theatre with a fun combination of acting, music, choreography, and improv exercises designed to keep you on your toes and your imagination sharp. Your favorite show tunes will be brought to life in an end of the week showcase. Learn how to use your voice on stage and perform excerpts from different musical theater shows!
10am-12pm
Tuition – $120 at Desert Ridge Studio

Shredders Academy:

Ready to take your shredding to the next level? This camp is designed for students who have at least a year or more of private lessons. Find out the secrets of some of your guitar idols and take your playing up a notch or two. More advanced work with picking, barre chords, fretboard work, finger tapping and a variety of styles. All participants will perform together and individually at the end of the camp.
10am-12pm $150

Beginning Snare Drum, and Drum set:

This is a percussion camp for everyone who can’t get enough drums. One of our most popular camps. We will be working on beginning drums and theory and rudiments. Rock drumming and pop music performance, introduction to jazz and blues drumming. Learn to tune your drums and get an intro to a live performance! You don’t have to be a drummer to get a lot out of this camp. Recommended for all students.
12pm-2pm $150

Songwriting Camp:

Always wanted to find a killer melody for those lyrics of yours? This camp will give you the tools to develop basic melody and harmony writing. Learn how to set words to melody, and melody to words. Bring in pre-existing lyrics, poetry, or take part in a poetry brainstorming workshop to develop a song that expresses who you are. Camps includes: Basic theory work, activities and exercises at the piano, ear training skills, analyzing today’s most popular hits, pop song structure. The culmination performance will highlight students’ original works. All instruments invited!
12pm-2pm
Tuition – $150

***Please note that there is a $50 non-refundable deposit required to hold your place in the camp. Camps are subject to change or be canceled if there are not enough kids in the camp. If a camp is canceled by the studio, you will receive a full refund of your deposit.”