Summer Camps for String Players

Posted by on Apr 5, 2011 | 0 comments

If you’re trying to develop as a creative string player, summer camp is a great option for adults as well as kids.

First let me tell you about the innovative Creative Strings Workshop, catering to adult pros/semipros, teachers, and/or serious players as young as 16.  This conference is devoted exclusively to a wide array of improvised music for string players. You’ll have the opportunity to rehearse intensively and perform in ensembles with our guest artists in several of the 25 concerts we present during the week. Lug gear, take road trips, deal with live sound, and be prepared to receive high fives from fans because you will lay it all on the line ONSTAGE, accompanied by top of the line rhythm sections.

Our guest artists are amazing, and you will work with them as a member of their band!

See these highlights regarding some of the guest artists set for this year: Claudio Peña is a creative cellist conducting bowed group improv Jason Anick is a fresh and informed voice in gypsy jazz, fiddle styles, and more.  Billy Contreas is the greatest genius on the violin in the history of the universe.

Other Camps

There are some other great camps this year as well to check out including Mark O’Connor’s fiddle camps in Tennessee (June 20-24) and Boston (June 27 – July 1), the Mike Block String Camp for fiddle styles in Florida (June 26 – July 2)), Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp in Colorado (July 31 – August 7),  Alasdair Frasier’s Sierra Fiddle Camp in California (June 18 – June 26), the first year out for Peter Rolland’s Camp for fiddle styles in Colorado (June 26 – July 2), Django Camp in Massachusetts for gypsy jazz (June 14 – 19), and the Mt. Shasta Invitational Music Camp in California (check out my blog for videos of me and camp founder Tashina Clarridge talking camps and jamming!).

All of these camps will help you develop as a creative string player and allow you to network with other like-minded musicians.