Summer usually means sun, fun and lazy days with friends, something that Ryan Schiller enjoyed as a child in his hometown of Naperville, Ill. But when Ryan was 12 years old, he wanted to try something new and registered for a summer camp for musicians.
‘I played viola in my school orchestra so I thought attending a music camp would be a good opportunity to grow my skills,’ he says. ‘Besides, the OPUS Chamber Music Camp was only one week.’
That one week in 2007 turned into five more as Ryan attended each summer until he graduated from high school in 2011.”
Performer, composer, arranger, pianist, clinician and jazz educator, Danny Seidenberg, will coach chamber ensembles as well as lead the 2018 Music Culture/Style Workshop.
Part of why I want to pursue chemistry is because I’ve always had a fascination with pure substances. The concept of looking at something and knowing that it isn’t an (effectively) inseparable mixture of fifteen, or six, or even two things was always really cool to me, even at a young age. What better place to see, work with, and study pure substances than in in a chemistry laboratory? And what better form to see or even hold a pure substance than one where the molecules are all lined up and packed together (theoretically) flawlessly, showing off their geometric arrangement even at the highly macroscopic scale—a crystal?
