Merry Peckham, Coach
The Perlman Music Program believes that chamber music is an essential pedagogical tool for all music students. Along with solo practice, orchestra, and chorus, chamber music is a key part of a Summer Music School student’s education.
Chamber music not only teaches students how to deal with essential ensemble skills such as listening, matching, cueing, and balance, but rehearsing chamber music requires students to develop clear, constructive, and supportive communication skills.
During the Summer Music School and the Sarasota Winter Residency, each student is assigned a chamber music group at the start of the session. Groups rehearse regularly and receive several coachings a week from coach Merry Peckham. Each group usually focuses on one movement from a great chamber music work, polishing it to a very high level prior to performing.
Merry Peckham and Toby Perlman before the 2007 chamber music concert at Southold High School
Legendary violinist, Robert Mann, coaches a student chamber music group.
