page_title: Great American Songbook Foundation
section_title: Songbook Academy® Summer Intensive
hierarchical_section_title: Great American Songbook Foundation / Education and outreach / Songbook Academy® Summer Intensive
caption_attribution_description: English: Songbook Academy founder Michael Feinstein and Grammy winner Cheryl Bentyne of The Manhattan Transfer coaching students during a public masterclass at the 2014 Songbook Academy.
context_page_description: The Great American Songbook Foundation is a 501 nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the music of the Great American Songbook. The Songbook Foundation's administrative offices are located on the Gallery level of the The Palladium at the Center for Performing Arts, a 1,600-seat concert hall in Carmel, Indiana that opened in January 2011. Previously known as the Michael Feinstein Foundation for the Education and Preservation of the Great American Songbook and as the Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Initiative, the organization took on its current name in 2014.
context_section_description: The Songbook Academy Summer Intensive, formerly known as the High School Vocal Academy and Competition, originated in 2009 and is held annually in July. The program is "the only vocal competition based solely on music from Broadway, Hollywood musicals and the Tin Pan Alley era." 
  Recent Songbook Academy finalists have performed in major venues in Las Vegas, Pasadena, New York City, Costa Mesa, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. In June 2016, Maddie Baillio was cast as Tracy Turnblad in NBC's production of Hairspray Live!. 
  Great American Songbook Youth Ambassadors:
  2009: Julia Bonnett
  2010: Annie Yokom
  2011: event on hiatus
  2012: Nick Ziobro
  2013: Julia Goodwin
  2014: Madelyn Baillio
  2015: Lucas DeBard
  2016: Brighton Thomas
  2017: Finn Sagal
caption: Songbook Academy founder Michael Feinstein and Grammy-winner Cheryl Bentyne of The Manhattan Transfer coaching participants in the 2014 Songbook Academy
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