StringQuest™

                             Chamber Music Workshop*

                             for Violin, Viola & Cello            

                            July 28 - August 2, 2008

                      Mon - Fri, Noon - 4:30 p.m.

                        Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.,

                        Concert: August 2nd @ 2:00 p.m.

                       Jr. High & Up

                                   $395/$435

                     

                      Trillium’s String Extravaganza!

Play your Instrument with Improved Finesse and Confidence!

Join us during TrilliumQuest™ for our inaugural String Workshop! Performing in a small ensemble is simultaneously one of the most challenging and rewarding. The idea of a Chamber Ensemble presents itself in many forms .... whether classical, modern, or popular. StringQuest is designed to provide the tools necessary to explore your instrument and your abilities both inside and outside of the envelope. If you haven’t played with music outside of your instrument’s genre, but want to & wondered how, then you need to experience StringQuest. Discover your expressive, musical genius during this 6 day workshop geared to helping you discover the joy of interpreting your favorite piece of music! This is a fun way to explore your instrument, jam with friends, and learn to play “outside the box.” Practice under the guidance of our professional String Faculty whose credits include the Chicago Symphony, touring with Daniel Barenboim, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and much more. A short performance for friends and family is planned at the conclusion of the workshop so come prepared to learn something new!

Don’t miss out! Space Limited!! Call for Information or download a TrilliumQuest™ Flyer & a TQ Registration Form today.

Prerequisites: Students must have at least one year of study in their instrument.

*$500 of each Registration Fee will be contributed to the Trillium Arts Scholarship Fund

NOTE: to qualify for Early Registration Discounts, the registration deadlines must be observed as noted!

Early Registration Due by July 1st @ 5 pm to qualify for Tuition Discounts

Photography Workshop

Monday

Date: 4 August 2008

Time: 1:00 - 5:30 pm

Show: Saturday 9 August 10 am - 4 pm

$95/$115

One Section Only:

High School & Up*

Interested in Improving your Aim? Capture People with Digital Intention

this August during our Picture This Photography Workshop. Picture This is designed for those who have experience using a digital SLR Camera and have a desire to improve their skills in photographing people and events. Participants will explore composition, using light to their advantage, and the challenge of shooting people in various situations, settings & events in a creative style. Students must supply their own camera equipment, a proper USB cable for downloading images from their camera to a laptop, as well as possess a working knowledge of their camera. Prepare for a professional critique of your work and an opportunity to show off your work at a Show on August 9th! Enrollment limited to 10 students to maximize participant benefit.

Your instructor is Bonnie Trafelet, award-winning photographer for the Chicago Tribune. Ms. Trafelet has worked as a photojournalist for the past 23 years, and has been with the Tribune for the past 11 of those years. Her many awards include a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for her work on the Tribune series entitled “Gateway to Gridlock” in 2001.

Showing of Work for Family, Friends & Neighbors (Sat. August 9th, 10 am - 4 pm)

Secure your Space Now! Registration Closes July 12th! Limited to 10 Students!

Call for Information &/or Download a TrilliumQuest™ Flyer or a TQ Registration Form.

* Must bring Digital SLR Camera & possess working knowledge of same to participate.

StageQuest™

Singer’s Audition Workshop*

Dates: August 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 & 9

Time: 10:00 am - 4:30 pm

Performance Saturday, Aug 9, 2:30 pm

  $395/$435

High School thru Adult

Got the Edge?

They say most auditions are finished in less than 15 seconds! Make the most of them. Join us for six exciting days in August and explore the Art of Auditioning for the Music Stage. Taught by gifted, professional instructors who join us from well-known, respected Chicago organizations. These are professionals who successfully audition for roles themselves, adjudicate auditions, and prepare other professionals for auditions; they are intimately acquainted with the process!

Learn how to develop your own informed, interpretive performance during this 6-day Master Class Workshop in audition & performance preparation. StageQuest™ is designed with performers in mind and will focus on key issues necessary for a successful audition.

Provide two prepared, memorized & contrasting music audition pieces, a memorized one-minute, age-appropriate monologue, and plan to explore them through vocal master classes, mock auditions, Feldenkrais® techniques, improvisation, drama games, vocal challenges, professional critique, personal coaching and creative thinking. You will have an opportunity to discuss the business of working as a performing singer, so roll up your sleeves and prepare to work hard and be rewarded for your efforts.

Non-Singer? Looking to improve your presence on stage for acting, dance or instrumental performance? Then you want the Performance Quest portion of this workshop, featuring Feldenkrais® to release tension, along with an in-depth look at developing your character for a believable performance. Monday, August 4 is the workshop day for you. See description above.

Prerequisites: a minimum of one year private vocal study. All audition pieces/materials must be submitted by Registration Deadline.

Space Limited to 18 participants! Secure Your Place! Registration Closes July 12th!

Call for Information &/or Download a TrilliumQuest™ Flyer or a TQ Registration Form.

Fees include a catered, gourmet lunch for the performance day of the workshop, August 2, 2008.

*$500 of each Registration Fee will be contributed to the Trillium Arts Scholarship Fund

two Workshops

Acting Out! Saturdays, July 19 & 26

Say What? Saturdays, August 2 & 9

Summer 2008

  $75/workshop

                        

two Sections per Workshop:

Grades 3 - 5 from 10:00 am - Noon

Grades 6 - 8 from 1:00 - 3:00 pm

Children who love to Pretend? Act? Sing? Move on Stage?

Join us this Summer for our Theatre Primer for ages 8 - 14. We’ll be learning the art of stage craft on stage and behind the scenes to help create the next generation of confident, considerate, imaginative and well-trained thespians! If your child loves the spotlight, enjoys theatrics, sings, dances or is otherwise a performance junkie, then DramaKidz™ is their opportunity to experience the joy of Theatre Drama. Discover the fun of professionally guided stagecraft during this 4 day theatre workshop intensive! For the experienced & inexperienced alike. Practice under the tutelage of our professional instructors and staff.

Acting Out! covers the fundamentals of dramatic interpretation, movement and stage direction through the use of theatre games, improvisation, movement & relaxation skills.

Say What? continues concepts covered in Acting Out!, with a focus on developing a dramatic character using analysis, free play, timing, speaking techniques and cold readings.

Secure your Child’s Space Now! Registration Closes July 12th!

Call for Information &/or Download a TrilliumQuest™ Flyer or a TQ Registration Form.

Prerequisites: Children must be able to read at a 3rd Grade Level and remain focused & on task for 2 hours 

(w/short breaks). Those wishing to join the workshop who are outside of the age/grade parameters will be given consideration on a case-by-case basis; a pre-registration interview will be required prior to admission for these potential students.

*$500 of each Registration Fee will be contributed to the Trillium Arts Scholarship Fund

two Workshops

Improv-ing Monday, July 28th

Get Real Wednesday, July 30th

from 1:00 - 3:00 pm

Summer 2008

$75/workshop

                        

High School & Up

Love the Stage? Like to play with ideas?

DramAcademy™ is a series of Workshops for thespians High School through Adult, offering the opportunity to acquire &/or polish acting and stage skills through games, lessons, improvisation, and other theatre tools in a comfortable, supportive, and exciting professional environment! These workshops provide participants the chance to express themselves and use their imagination while learning to create theatrical excellence. Workshops are designed to enhance and augment your theatrical knowledge, expertise and performances in school, church, community theatre or for those preparing to audition for or enter formal studies at a higher level.

Improv-ing covers the fundamentals of dramatic interpretation, movement and stage direction through the use of theatre games, improvisation, movement & relaxation skills. Gain confidence, greater listening skills, and an improved ability to think on your feet.

Get Real continues concepts covered in Acting Out!, with a focus on developing a dramatic character using analysis, free play, timing, speaking techniques and cold readings. This is a perfect workshop for actors looking to push themselves to the next level.

Secure your Space Now! Registration Closes July 12th!

Call for Information &/or Download a TrilliumQuest™ Flyer or a TQ Registration Form.

Prerequisites: Children must be able to read at a 3rd Grade Level and remain focused & on task for 2 hours 

(w/short breaks). Those wishing to join the workshop who are outside of the age/grade parameters will be given consideration on a case-by-case basis; a pre-registration interview will be required prior to admission for these potential students.

*$500 of each Registration Fee will be contributed to the Trillium Arts Scholarship Fund

Jazz Big Band

Workshop*

Brass, Sax, Bass, Drums, Guitar, Keyboard

August 4 - 8, 2008

6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Concert: August 8th @ 7:00 p.m.

High School & Up

$275/$295

                     

                      Trillium’s Jazz Festival!

Play your Instrument with Improved Finesse and Confidence!

Join us during TrilliumQuest™ for our inaugural Jazz Fest Workshop! The Jazz Workshop will focus on jazz style and interpretation as applied to ensemble playing and improvisation. Jazz performance techniques and their application to rhythm section, brass and saxophone playing in a variety of musical contexts will be studied. Musical contexts presented will include swing, ballad, rock and a variety of Latin music styles.

Discover your expressive, musical genius during this 5 day workshop designed to help you discover the joy of exploring and interpreting great Jazz music! A short performance for family, friends and neighbors is planned at the conclusion of the workshop.

Practice under the guidance of Big Band Leader Bob Lark, Chair of Jazz Studies at DePaul University Since Bob Lark's appointment as Jazz Studies Chair and director of the (DePaul) Jazz Ensemble, the band has appeared at the Midwest Clinic (2004, 1998, & 1994), the International Association for Jazz Education Conference, the Duke Ellington International Conference, the National Association of Music Merchants Conference, the Jazz Party At Sea aboard the S.S. Norwegian Sun, twice aboard the Queen Elizabeth II ocean liner for their Annual Floating Jazz Festival, and a concert tour of Italy.

Don’t miss out! Space Limited!! Call for Information or download a TrilliumQuest™ Flyer & a TQ Registration Form today.

Prerequisites: Students must have at least one year of study in their instrument.

*$500 of each Registration Fee will be contributed to the Trillium Arts Scholarship Fund

StageQuest Faculty Include:

Equally at home in the world of Music Theatre, Ms. McMann performed in both the Broadway performance and tour of Phantom of the Opera, the Tony Award-winning production of ShowBoat. Locally, she has been seen in The Music Man, The Pirates of Penzance, The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, Cats, Strike Up the Band, and many, many others.

Ms. McMann earned her BME from Illinois Wesleyan University and her MM in vocal performance from the University of Southern California. She currently resides in Frankfort with her husband and two sons.

Michael Kotze is an Opera Director whose productions have been praised in the pages of Opera News and the Chicago Tribune. For Light Opera Works he directed My Night at Jacques’ and You Never Know, and co-directed their 2003 production of Die Fledermaus. Mr. Kotze staged The Barber of Seville and The Magic Flute for Opera Theatre Highland Park, The Telephone for Chamber Opera Chicago, and devised and performed a version of Barber of Seville for children at The Ravinia Festival.

As resident stage director of Waukegan’s Bowen Park Opera, his credits include The Turn of The Screw, Così Fan Tutte, La Cenerentola, and Werther. For Green Bay’s Pamiro Opera, he directed Amahl and the Night Visitors, Hansel and Gretel, The Abduction From the Seraglio, as well as a rare staging of Händel’s Messiah. Michael has staged productions for Chicago’s L’Opera Piccola, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, and the Savoy-Aires. On stage, he has appeared frequently with Light Opera Works, notably in The Red Mill and The Red Moon. Other appearances were with L’Opera Piccola, Chicago Opera Theatre, Chamber Opera Chicago, and Court Theatre.

Mr. Kotze earned a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities from the University of Chicago and has resided in Frankfort for the past several years with his wife and family.

As a performer, Bob has been seen in tours of Singin’ in the Rain, Forever Plaid, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita, and the Kenny Rogers Christmas Show. Locally he has had roles in Shear Madness (Mayfair Theater) and Harold Prince’s Candide (Lyric Opera of Chicago).

Duke has been a featured Saxophone soloist in major Classical, Jazz, New Music Festivals and Conferences throughout the United States and Europe, appearing in such venues as the Bourge Synthese Festival (France), the World Saxophone Conference, the World Music Institute, Spoleto USA and the Hilton Head Jazz Festival. Artists Mr. Duke has collaborated with include Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams, Nelson Riddle, Rosemary Clooney, Charles MePherson, Fareed Haque, Louis Bellson, Zoot Sims and others. As a Classical Saxophonist, Mr. Duke has performed with the American Ballet Theatre and the Bolshoi Ballet just to name two.

Mr. Duke is a Professor of Music and Distinguished Research Professor at Northern Illinois University, where he has taught since 1980. He earned a Bachelor of Music (BM) and a Master of Music (MM) at the University of North Texas.

Terri Trafelet: As the Founder and Executive Director of Trillium, Terri Trafelet has been a performer, instructor, arts consultant and administrator since 1997. Ms. Trafelet has performed with/in such venues as Light Opera Works, the Grant Park Symphony, Orchestra Hall, Opera Theatre Lucca, Illinois Theatre Center, Les Jeunes Artistes, and others. The breadth of her experience ranges from the US Artistic Director for the Lisbon Jazz Festival, to Voice Teacher to Performer to Trillium’s chief cook and bottle washer. Terri has performed Madame Butterfly, Tosca, Gilbert & Sullivan, Le Nozze di Figaro, Così fan Tutte, Die Fledermaus, and particularly enjoys performing Verdi, Puccini, Korngold & Verismo Operas.

Ms. Trafelet earned a Bachelor of Music (BM) in Vocal Performance from DePaul University, along with a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and a Masters of Project Management (MPM) from the Keller Graduate School of Management. She has been a resident of New Lenox since 1989, is actively involved in our local Chambers of Commerce, and is proud to call the LincolnWay area home to both family and business.

Stay Tuned: MORE TO COME SOON

2008 Festival of Arts

26 July - 9 August

KidzArt™

Workshops*

Colors: June 14 - July 19

Essentials: July 26 - Aug 30

Times: 10:00 - 11:30 am

Grades 3 - Jr High

Show Saturday, Aug 9, 10 am - 4 pm

  $157.50

Who can resist their Creative Muse?

Trillium is pleased to be offering KidzArt™ for youth with a passion to create. KidzArt™ offers those eager to explore their creative muse an opportunity to express themselves artistically. While instruction focuses primarily on the foundations of Representational Art, children will also learn how to explore and develop their own creative vision!

    KidzArt™ Essentials Throughout this six-week session, students will be guided in    

    developing essential drawing skills while encouraging them to develop their own style, vision and

    creative approach. Students will acquire skills in visual interpretation, creating a balanced

    composition, understanding perspective, texture, contouring, and shading. Using these acquired

    skills, each participant will produce an unique, finished piece to take with them at the close of the

    session.

    KidzArt™ Colors This session provides a logical sequence to KidzArt™ Essentials,

    allowing for continuity in the learning process, while solidifying and further incorporating the

    skills set learned in Section I/Essentials. This Intermediate Section continues to build on the

    foundation and skills of perspective, texture, contouring, and shading, with the addition of color

    technique. Basic color theory will be explored through the use of colored pencils and watercolor

    pencils. Color is used to create depth, texture, tone variations and shading in the realm of

    Representational Art. The possibilities are endless when you add color! Students new to

    KidzArt™ with a background in drawing are encouraged to participate!

Prerequisites: a desire to learn and the ability to concentrate and follow direction.

Call for Information &/or Download a TrilliumQuest™ Flyer or a TQ Registration Form.

*$500 of each Registration Fee will be contributed to the Trillium Arts Scholarship Fund

Performance Quest™

Feldenkrais® Workshop*

for Dancers, Musicians, Actors,

Singers & Public Speakers

Date: August 4th

Time: 10:00 am - 4:30 pm

$125

  High School thru Adult

Performance Anxiety? Tension? Injuries?

This terrific workshop is divided into two unique portions. The first half will provide a fantastic opportunity to learn from a pioneer in adapting the Feldenkrais Method to performance! Steve Duke was the first musician to integrate the method with practice techniques to release tension and improve freedom of movement. Feldenkrais offers techniques that will release stress and anxiety during both rehearsal and performance, whether you are a dancer, actor, speaker, singer or musician.

The second portion of this 1-day workshop will focus on assimilating your performance character with a relaxed, unconscious competence. Take an in-depth look at who you are on stage, what your goals are as a performer and whether or not you are accomplishing them and relating truthfully to your audience. This is an intensive workshop designed to stretch and strengthen your abilities to manage the rigors of rehearsal, audition and performance with reduced tension and enhanced awareness.

The Feldenkrais Method is an educational system centered on movement, aiming to expand and refine the use of the self through awareness. It is intended for those who wish to improve their movement repertoire (dancers, musicians, artists), as well as those wishing to reduce pain or limitations in movement, and many who want to improve their general well-being and personal development. Because it uses movement as the primary vehicle for gaining awareness, it is directly applicable to disorders that arise from restricted or habitually poor movement. But as a process for gaining awareness, it can expand a person's choices and responses to many aspects of life: emotions, relationships, and intellectual tasks; and it applies at any level, from severe disorder to highly professional performance. The Feldenkrais Method holds that there is no separation between mind and body, and thus learning to move better can improve one's overall well-being on many levels.

Feldenkrais Method includes the use of:

Awareness Through Movement® is series of movement sequences that people are led through verbally. They affect changes in breathing , posture, flexibility, range of motion, shifts in self-image, reduction of pain, increased vitality and overall brings one’s attention back to the process of what we are actually doing. Functional Integration® is a hands on technique, it is like a tailor made ATM lesson, where the practitioner uses their hands to guide you to a new sense and use of yourself.

Space Limited to 18 participants! Secure Your Place! Registration Closes July 12th!

Call for Information &/or Download a TrilliumQuest™ Flyer or a TQ Registration Form.

Fees include a catered, gourmet lunch for the performance day of the workshop, August 2, 2008.

*$500 of each Registration Fee will be contributed to the Trillium Arts Scholarship Fund

Stage Primer*

Summer 2008

Dates: July 26 & August 5, 6, 7, & 9

Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Performance Saturday, Aug 9, 2:30 pm

  $275/$295

                        

One Section Only:

Jr High & Up

All levels welcome.

Creative Imagination? Love to Pretend? Acting in Your Blood?

Join us in August for our SceneQuest Workshop for Jr High & Up. We’ll be learning the art of stage craft using various scenes to delve more deeply into plot, character, setting, background and action in this performance-focused workshop. This workshop begins with auditions, & cold readings and proceeds to blocking, dress rehearsal and performance.

This is an intensive workshop for actors serious about improving their skills in a setting designed to polish with supportive critique and hard work. Space is strictly limited in order to focus on individual student needs. You won’t be short-changed in this intensive 5-day workshop. Be prepared with a memorized, 1 minute monologue for your July 26th placement audition. You will be paired for cold readings as well in order to best place you in the scene appropriate to challenge your abilities.

Secure your Space Now! Registration Closes July 12th!

Call for Information &/or Download a TrilliumQuest™ Flyer or a TQ Registration Form.

Prerequisites: Children must be able to read at a 3rd Grade Level and remain focused & on task for 2-3 hours  (w/short breaks). Those wishing to join the workshop who are outside of the age/grade parameters will be given consideration on a case-by-case basis; a pre-registration interview will be required prior to admission for these potential students.

*$500 of each Registration Fee will be contributed to the Trillium Arts Scholarship Fund