Performances

Tours

Camp

Auditions

Discovery Night

Recordings

Alumni

During these camps, the choristers:

• Refresh and learn rehearsal skills.
• Refine and learn sight-singing/solfege skills.
• Begin working on new repertoire.
• Re-establish friendships and make new ones.
• Enjoy team building activities and sports! In past years, these activities have included swimming, bowling, solving “The Amazing Maize Maze” and competing in a Polaroid scavenger hunt!
• Eat meals together, learning and practicing appropriate table etiquette. These skills are put to use in the future, as we travel.
• Improve music reading skills through handbell classes.
• Perform at a concluding service and concert.

The camp experience is essential to every young singer’s success. It sets the chorister up with reminders of his or her knowledge base and creates a healthy and supportive environment for them to challenge themselves in front of their peers who, after camp, have become their friends. And it’s fun, too!

The MasterSingers have a weekend away at the Valle Crucis Conference Center outside of Boone, NC in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina. During the retreat, the teens also:

• Refresh rehearsal skills.
• Refresh sight-singing/solfege skills.
• Begin working on new repertoire.
• Re-establish friendships and make new ones.
• Enjoy a Saturday afternoon group building activity such as a ropes course and a Saturday evening social activity.
• Eat and live together in a dorm setting.
• Lead a concluding Sunday morning worship service.

This retreat experience is also essential to each singer’s success, reviewing their musical knowledge while learning new repertoire and building a cohesive group to work together toward common goals throughout the year. Friendships that last a lifetime are begun at camp.

2011 Camp Dates:

Town and Touring Choirs Day Camp: August 8 – 12, 2011; 9:00 – 4:00 daily
MasterSingers Retreat: August 19 – 21