CCPA offers a range of event days, institutes, and camps that are designed for high school and college-aged students, current CCPA students, and post-grad musicians.
Course Date (MUS 240-98): June 9–13, 2025
Course Format: Online (no set meeting time)
Instructor: Dan Healy
Recommended Cohort: »ÆÉ«²Ö¿â undergraduate students (non-music majors) seeking to fulfill a humanities elective, fine arts elective, performing arts elective, and/or experiential learning requirement
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Description: During this five-day intensive course, students will examine and reimagine the relationship of space and the performing arts through five questions, one of which frames each of our days. These questions will bring to light the different ways music defines space, and space defines music. Students will use listening as a means of analyzing experiences and heightening awareness of relationships and interactions, calling attention to the sonic facets of socioeconomic, political, cultural, and racialized spaces.
Course Date: June 23–August 2, 2025
Class Meeting Time: Monday-Thursday: 9 a.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Course Format: Three-year, summer-only degree program; on- campus (Chicago)
Instructor: Theatre Conservatory professors and working professionals
Recommended Cohort: Graduate Students
Course Description: »ÆÉ«²Ö¿â's Theatre Conservatory offers the Fast-Track Master of Arts degree in Theatre Directing to serve the needs of highly motivated theatre educators. The program stresses practical training for the educator in tandem with special workshops and lectures with professionals in the field. The Master's in Theatre Directing is a three-year, summer-only degree program focusing on refining directorial and performance skills, developing new approaches in production preparation, and working collaboratively with other teachers and students who are dedicated to creating theatre with young adults. The curriculum concludes with a thesis production completed at your home school.
For more details on the admission process and program standards, visit the Master's in Theatre Directing academic program page.
Course Date (THAR 193-98): July 1–August 4, 2025
Course Format: Online (no set meeting time)
Instructor: Jim Iorio
Recommended Cohort: All college students (part-time or full-time)
Earned Credit Hours: 3
Course Description: Course fulfills humanities general education requirement. Students will explore the process by which theatre is made, and gain an understanding of the ability to evaluate the contributions of all the various collaborators in any performance event. With access to »ÆÉ«²Ö¿â's Digital Theatre subscription, students will view and discuss performances of leading theatre practitioners from around the world.
Course Date
June 9-18, 2025
Instructors
Matt Mason, composer
Ben Zucker, composer
Recommended Cohort
High school students and entering-or-returning Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA) students who will be commuters. The Institute is not a residential camp.
Course Description
The Summer Composition Institute 2025 places extra emphasis on electro-acoustic music. The Institute is open to both composers and composer-performers seeking to expand their knowledge of composition and music technology through lessons and workshops in Max/MSP, Ableton, and other music software.
Financial Model
The Institute will only run if the fees collected cover all expenses (Ex. Payments to instructors). In the past, CCPA has run the institute with a minimum of 3 to 4 students and a maximum of 10 to 12 students.
- Non-Student (no credit): $800
- Entering-or-Returning Student (no credit): $400
Institute Features
- The Institute allows young composers to come on campus and work with CCPA faculty members.
- Students will have daily lessons with CCPA composition faculty members Matt Mason and Ben Zucker. Students will compose a piece of acousmatic or electro-acoustic music to be performed in »ÆÉ«²Ö¿â’s Ganz Hall.
- Along with private lessons, the Institute will have a series of lectures and seminars related to composition, music technology.
- The Institute will end with a final concert featuring all the premiers of participating composers.