URI Summer Music Academy Band Camp

About the Program:

• Hosted at the URI Kingston campus, the camp is open to woodwind, brass, and percussion students. To enroll in the camp, you must have completed the 7th through 12th grade in June of 2024.
• The main focus of the camp is to provide interactive, welcoming, and joyful large ensemble and chamber ensemble experience. The students will partake in studio classes (with a URI faculty member or URI guest artist teaching all of the students of each section), chamber ensemble concerts, workshops/clinics, music theory classes, percussion ensemble, and the largest portion of their time will be collaborating with URI Director of Bands, Dr. Brian M. Cardany. The culmination concert on Saturday, July 27th at 11:00AM, will feature the URI Summer Music Academy Concert Band. URI Music faculty and guest artists will provide each young musician individual attention and training in an age-appropriate collegiate musical experience.
• Campers will enjoy an authentic Rhode Island experience! Musicians will take a field trip to a local beach for an afternoon of fun midway through camp. The campers will have time to relax and enjoy some down time together, oceanside! Each night will have a planned event for everyone, including a movie night, faculty recital, open swim at the university pool, and other fun activities.

Tuition:

• Residential Students: $1,175
• Commuter Students: $775
• Tuition includes: all instruction, the field trip to the beach, a camp T-shirt, room & board (commuter students will be provided lunches and dinners). Students must pay for their own dinner for the evening of the beach field trip.
• Students may purchase a private lesson during the week of camp. Rates for private lessons are $45 for a 30 minute lesson and $75 for a 60 minute lesson. Please visit this link in order to purchase a private lesson: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uri-summer-music-academy-band-camp-private-lesson-tickets-884325059057
• A community swim pool pass is $5, and students will be expected to bring cash for that event if they choose to go to the pool on the night that the group goes!
• A camper/family can register by paying by credit card or check. Checks should be made payable to “ University of Rhode Island” and mailed to: Office of Conference Services, University of Rhode Island, 10 Tootell Road, Suite #1, Kingston, RI 02881. Please write your child’s full name in the memo line.
• Financial aid may be available to those that qualify. Please email Allison Lacasse at alacasse@uri.edu with a scanned, signed letter with as much information as you are comfortable sharing explaining your child’s need for aid.

Placement: Videos due June 1, 2024

• There are no auditions for this camp; all 7th-12th grade band musicians are welcome! Students will be asked to submit a sample of their playing prior to camp so that they are placed in the appropriate seats in large/chamber ensembles.
• Some of the best music-making experiences are the ones where you are playing side by side with advanced musicians, pushing you to be the best player that you can be! It is our philosophy that all students can be taught, and we are devoted to working hard with you this week as you progress as a musician!
• Placement instructions: please share a google drive file of a video of you playing your instrument. Please choose two different selections of music (no more than 5 minutes of music combined). The two pieces should be contrasting in nature; one solo should show off your slow/lyrical/expressive playing, and the other piece should show off your technical ability, range, and overall control of the instrument. If you have any questions about this, please send alacasse@uri.edu an email!
• Placement videos are due by June 1, 2024. Please submit via google drive to alacasse@uri.edu.

NAfME & Sibling Discount: (Only one discount may apply per camper)

• Children of active NAfME members receive a $50 discount. Please show proof of active membership on the registration page. Use Code: NAfME50 at check out.
• Families with multiple siblings will receive a $50 discount per sibling. Use Code: Sibling50 at check out.

Housing and Dining:

All residential students will be staying in an air-conditioned campus dormitory. There will be 1 trained student counselor per 10 student campers, and the student counselors will shadow the musicians’ schedules throughout the week of camp, fully supervising students at mealtimes, rehearsals, flex hours, evening activities, and walks between the dorms and all other points on campus. The students residing on campus will be provided 3 meals per full day, and commuter students will be provided lunch and dinner at the dining hall.

Important Dates:

Registration Closes: June 21, 2024

Resident Check-In: July 21, 2024 (check-in between 2pm-4pm)

Culmination Concert: Saturday, July 27 at 11AM, Location on campus TBD

Camper Forms:

Please complete and return the below forms to alacasse@uri.edu

Assumption of Risk Form

Permission Release Form

Emergency Contact Form

Consent to secure medical treatment Form

Health History Form

Pick up Authorization Form

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