Strings
✨ July 21 - July 28 2024 ✨
COLLABORATION:
We focus on giving our students an experience playing with others that they can’t get anywhere else! In our chamber ensembles, faculty coaches provide students with the tools to make artistic and technical decisions and run a fully self-governed rehearsal. Students will also receive guidance on how to give and take constructive and kind feedback.
BUILDING A MORE FLUENT MUSICIAN:
Students in our program will leave with a better musician’s toolbox than when they came. They will expand on fundamental components of music - rhythm, intonation, theory, and practice techniques - and learn to apply them in real-world situations. Techniques we will strengthen include feeling a consistent internal pulse, awareness of intonation discrepancies and how to properly adjust them, applying harmonic analyses for a better informed performance, and employing efficient and healthy practice habits. We want our students to feel confident in any musical setting and be able to contribute to the music making process in a knowledgeable and professional manner.
PLAYING IN THE PIT:
We are proud to offer the opportunity for students to play in the pit orchestra and provide the music for the Music Theatre Musical. Students will play side by side with seasoned staff and learn the ropes of playing in a pit orchestra. Playing in the pit requires a different toolbox of techniques than is normally expected from playing in a school orchestra. Students will learn to play different styles, create appropriate colors of music, and balance frequent time and key changes. Playing in a pit orchestra is where musicians truly test their ability to make music. This aspect of our camp brings all of the efforts from each track and each student together to create one grand production at the end of the week.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
1. Each stringstudent will receive private lessons.
2. Each student will play in the festival orchestra and pit orchestra.
3. Each student will be a member of a performing chamber group.
4. Each student will have the opportunity to perform as a soloist on a recital.
5. Each student will attend and/or participate in a master class.
6. Each student will attend a late night “Ask Me Anything!” about college, careers in music, and anything else!
7. Each student will participate in the famous “March Madness” composer bracket.
Check out some videos from a solo recital!
Check out a NGPAC Orchestra concert!
