Summer Music Camps

MARS HILL COLLEGE SUMMER MUSIC CAMP
The beautifully landscaped campus of Mars Hill College is the perfect setting for a week of music study, practice, rehearsal, and performance. Many of the mountain region’s top conductors, music educators, and performers will serve on the faculty. Our administrative staff and camp counselors will supervise a number of enjoyable co-curricular opportunities. Family members and friends of the student musicians are welcome to attend a Friday afternoon concert in Moore Auditorium.

The following ensembles and classes will be offered:
* High School Band
* Middle School Band
* High School String Ensemble
* Middle School String Ensemble
* High School Jazz Band
* Middle School Jazz Band
* Piano Camp
* Beginning Music Theory
* Advanced Music Theory
* Jazz Improvisation
* Conducting
* Master classes on all of the instruments
CANNON MUSIC CAMP
Since 1969, Cannon Music Camp has offered the most comprehensive course of musical instruction in the southest, with intensive college preparatory work in performance and music theory. Ensemble performance is stressed, and experiences in choir, orchestra, band, jazz, and chamber music are provided. Equally important is the one-on-one instruction each camper receives in their weekly one-hour private lessons. Cannon Music Camp, on the campus of Appalachian State University, is open to serious music students who have completed grades 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12. The Camp provides a four-week music-filled retreat in North Carolina's magnificent Blue Ridge Mountains.
UNCG SUMMER MUSIC CAMP
Since 1983, over 35,000 students have attended Summer Music Camp. In 2002, the UNC-G Summer Music Camp celebrated its 20th year. In 2009 we will again host 15 concert bands, 3 orchestras, a senior mixed chorus and 180 pianists to total over 1,800 participants served by a staff of 150 dedicated professionals.