Songbook Academy

The Songbook Academy® is a premier music and performance intensive that provides high school singers with the life-changing opportunity to work with music industry professionals and top music educators to experience firsthand the uniquely American and culturally significant music known as the Great American Songbook.

The Songbook Academy® is a celebration of the Golden Age of American Popular music. This program is the only high school intensive in the U.S. dedicated solely to the music from Broadway, Hollywood musicals and the Tin Pan Alley era of the early to mid-twentieth century. (1920’s – 1960’s) The songwriters of the Great American Songbook translated positive values and an optimistic spirit into the soundtrack of American life. These values are as true and applicable today as they ever have been.

This program seeks to foster young artists who have an interest in the American Songbook, which includes the music of classic Broadway, Jazz standards, and popular music. Students have the opportunity to participate in workshops and master classes on a variety of topics with educators from top University music and theatre programs in the country, as well as GRAMMY award-winning singers, musical directors, and performers.