May 12 - 13, 2025
Mackinac Island
Music At The Grand
CALLING ALL MUSIC DIRECTORS OF CHOIRS, BANDS, & ORCHESTRAS
You and your students, from 6th grade to college freshmen, are invited to join us at Music at the Grand from May 12 - 13, 2025!
Enjoy the unique opportunity to learn from world class clinicians Jerry Blackstone and Doug Droste and perform at historic Grand Hotel. While staying at the hotel, you and your students will also enjoy its world class amenities including the renowned 5-course dinner.
There is VERY limited space for this event.
What's Included
• One night at Grand Hotel
• Round trip motorcoach transportation
• Round trip ferry to Mackinac Island
• Five-course meal at Grand Hotel
• Breakfast at Grand Hotel
• $10 meal allowance
• One-hour group clinic with the clinician (choral or band or orchestra)
• Evening performance opportunities
• Choice of:
• Carriage tour
• One-hour bike rental and admission to Fort Mackinac
All inclusions are pending based on availability
For over 20 years Music at the Grand has been an event cherished by students and teachers alike. On this overnight trip, students will learn from clinicians Jerry Blackstone or Douglas Droste while also enjoying the history and natural beauty of their home state. It’s also an opportunity for students to build relationships with students from their own class and other schools.
Jerry Blackstone
Choral Clinician & Conductor
GRAMMY Award winner Jerry Blackstone is a leading conductor and highly respected conducting pedagogue. Now emeritus professor of conducting at the University of Michigan, he served on the faculty of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance for thirty years where as director of choirs he led the graduate program in choral conducting and oversaw the University’s eleven choirs.
Douglas Droste
Band Clinician
Douglas Droste is a renowned clinician and adjudicator, who has served at Festival Disney, ASTA’s National Orchestra Festival, and the Music for All National Festival. He is Director of Orchestral Studies at Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music, where he conducts the Baldwin Wallace Symphony Orchestra and teaches conducting.
Music directors can contact us by November 15, 2024 for more information and pricing for your group
866.466.2202 | info@ctscentral.net
PRICING
STARTING AT $589 PER STUDENT
QUAD OCCUPANCY