Rocky Mountain PortraitCharles is conducting the orchestra for the Rocky Ridge Music Center, in Estes Park, Colorado, from June 12-28 2009.

Rocky Ridge Music  Center,  located  in the heart of the Colorado Rockies, offers summer music camps for students of various ages and levels including adult seminars.

Under the guidance of world-class faculty and guest artists, students will improve and broaden their musical skills in areas of strings, woodwinds, brass, piano and voice through solo, chamber, orchestral, and theory/composition studies. Students will have the opportunities to create and perform new music, participate in master classes, attend Music in the Mountains faculty concert series, listen to broadcasts of their and faculty recitals on 104.7 KREV Rocky Ridge Music Hour and on Colorado Public Radio at 90.1 KVOD Colorado Spotlight .