Elementary String Camp

Elementary String Camp: Summer 2022 Dates TBD

ABOUT

The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra Elementary String Camp is a morning day camp for elementary aged students (ages 5-12) who play violin, viola, cello, or double bass. The camp is intended for those students who have prior experience participating in their school’s strings program, have been taking private lessons, or have been participating in the Fayetteville Symphony String Sinfonietta.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Master Classes with professional Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra musicians
Fiddling
Orchestra and Chamber Ensemble Classes
FUN Music History and Music Theory Class
“Snack Time Concert Series” where the students will have the chance to perform for one another, and be able to hear their teachers perform for them as well!
Final Concert on the last day of the camp – parents are invited to attend!

REGISTRATION

Students must be ages 5-12, play either violin, viola, cello, or double bass, and must have prior experience to participating in at least one of the following to apply:

School string’s program
Private Lessons
Fayetteville Symphony String Sinfonietta

Tuition is $110 per-student. Tuition is due in full with the application form. Please check back for registration form in the spring.

For any questions, please contact the symphony office at (910)433-4690 or email info@fayettevillesymphony.org

Featured Musician

Dr. Cat Keen Hock – Third Clarinet, Bass Clarinet

Dr. Catherine Keen Hock, originally from eastern North Carolina, has found a home teaching and performing in the Piedmont Triad area of NC. Currently, Cat is the bass clarinetist for the Fayetteville and Salisbury Symphony Orchestras and is a member of the woodwind faculty at the Music Academy of North Carolina. Cat is an avid supporter of new music, especially chamber music, and is a founding member of the award-winning ensemble Quintet Sirocco. She completed a DMA in Clarinet Performance and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Historical Musicology at UNC Greensboro in 2012, and her previous degrees include a MM in Performance from UNCG and a BA with Honors in Music Performance from Wake Forest University. Cat has studied with Kelly Burke, Anthony Taylor, Edwin Riley, Eileen Young, and Michael Waddell.

To Educate. To Entertain. To Inspire.

The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1956 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and is a professional, regional orchestra whose mission is to educate, entertain, and inspire the citizens of the Fayetteville, North Carolina region as the leading musical resource. Praised for its artistic excellence, the Symphony leads in the cultural and educational landscape for Fayetteville and the southeastern North Carolina region.

The Fayetteville Symphony typically performs 8 concerts during any given season performing both at Methodist University and Fayetteville State University. Partnerships with other agencies include collaborative performances with Cape Fear Regional Theatre, chamber concerts at St. John’s Episcopal Church, as well as the city’s annual Independence concert with fireworks. The Symphony brings music to the schools and the community by performing educational concerts, as well as having its own Fayetteville Symphony Youth Orchestra, after school strings and summer music camps.

This organization is supported in part by a space grant from the BB&T Term Endowment of Cumberland Community Foundation, Inc.