Emma Canalese HeadshotEmma Canalese is a graduate of The Western Australian Academy of the Performing Arts and The Neighborhood Playhouse, NY, and an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC). Work includes Einstein and Mileva (World Premiere at Theatre Row, NY), Peter and The Starcatcher (The Naples Players, nominated for Best Director of a Musical, Broadway World Regional Awards), Silent Sky (The Naples Players, Naples Florida Weekly Top Pick) Hollywood, Hollywood (Midtown International Theatre Festival, nominated for Best Direction and Best Choreography), Yellowpants (SOLOCOM at The Pit, NY), America (Downtown Urban Theatre Festival, winner of Best Audience Award), Thick Gnat Hands, The Brazilian Dilemma, Stick, Stiff, Any Given School Day, Twenty (Collective NY), The Tempest: Remixed (Teatro Heckscher, NY), A Sense of Purpose On Sunday’s (IO Myers Theatre at UNSW, Aust), Par amnesia (Seymour Centre with One Extra Dance, Aust), The Magic Flute (Talent Unlimited), Oklahoma and Mame (Stagedoor Manor).

She is co-writer and director of the play A 100 Years of the History of Dance. The show had its first Australian tour in 2019, was a Western Australian Critics Choice winner at Fringe World Festival 2020 in Perth, WA, has had runs in Brisbane at The Powerhouse (2019) and La Boite Theatre Company (2021) and is currently on tour throughout Australia. In 2020 she directed Holiday’s From The Heart, a virtual performance and fundraising program produced by Bravehearts For Broadway, streamed on Playbill.com for The Actors Fund. She has taught and directed at The Papermill Playhouse Conservatory and Intensive Summer Programs, StageDoor Manor, Rutgers-RSAC, Pomona College, CA and UNSW Dance and Drama Dept.

VinS drummer educatorVin Scialla (drummer/educator) has traveled the world teaching and performing music. US Embassy and State Department entertainment tours have taken him to South America, Middle East, Egypt, Europe, Cuba and the Caribbean. He balances an audacious path as performer and teacher in New York. Vin holds a B.M. from Hartt School of Music, received his Masters at the Conservatory at Brooklyn College, and a D.M.A. candidate in music education. 
Scialla is best known for his innovative fusion of Middle Eastern, Italian, North Indian and American musical traditions. Inspired by his cultural heritage, combined with his performances with masters of Arabic and Indian Classical music in New York, he covers many aspects of non-Western percussion and adapts these traditions for jazz drumset. He performs with Liftoff Brass Band, recorded an album with jazz artists Brian Charette, Eric Schugren, Mike DiRubbo (Liftoff Records/PrimeD), Snehasish Mozumder, Sameer Gupta, Jason Lindner (Random Chance Records), Brooklyn Raga Massive: Terry Riley's "In C" (Northern Spy Records), and Mission: on Mars with Neel Murgai.
Vin has worked as a musician in film/tv including Late Night (featuring Emma Thompson) as drummer/bandleader, and composed music for feature film The Mountain (featuring Jeff Goldblum). Vin has written a drum instructional book/video for drumteacher.com and he recently performed at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors with Snehasish Mozumder, and at Symphony Space and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall with Alessandra Belloni and I Giullari Di Piazza. He has played in the pit for Broadway and Off-Broadway productions including Tick Tick Boom, and recently as sub/understudy for the Tony Award Winning Broadway show, The Bands Visit. His educational sponsors include RemoSabian, and Sennheiser.

Instrumentalists and vocalists at New England Music Camp spend their mornings in four one-hour periods of music taught by a prestigious faculty of professional performers and educators from universities, colleges, and highly recognized public and private school music programs. A 4:1 faculty to student ratio provides an environment rich in sharing and learning. Students and their teachers at home often remark that “one summer of music at NEMC is like a year at home”!

Campers at New England Music Camp design their own schedules, choosing from a wide range of classes. The weekly schedule includes two one half-hour private lessons, with the option to add additional lesson time, and participation in one or more of the major performing groups. Public performances take place on Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm at our outdoor amphitheater, the Bowl-in-the-Pines.

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This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Snow Pond Center for the Arts makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. 

clarinet teacherFaculty members at New England Music Camp are carefully chosen for both their achievements as professional performers and their recognition for excellence in teaching. We live in a close knit community where we dine family style and many of our faculty enjoy joining the campers on the recreation fields.

 

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