The Lake Mead Baptist Church will be hosting its annual Summer Music Camp on June 25-29. This is the third year for the camp that brings together young local musicians for a fun-packed week of music and learning.
The camp includes both an instrumental and choral program.
Band camp is for young musicians entering grades 7-12. They should have at least one year of band and/or string instruction.
The choral camp is for young musicians entering grades 3-12, with at least one year of chorus and/or choir in school or church.
A vocal mini-camp will also be held, open to all young musicians entering grades 3-12. It will focus on group choral singing and a more advanced repertoire than the choral camp. It is especially designed for students taking part in the orchestral/band camp who also would like vocal instruction.
The camp will take place at Lake Mead Baptist Church each day from 9am until 1 pm.
The highlight of the week will be the Camp Concert on Friday, June 29 at 7 pm in the Old Logandale School. Campers will learn the entire concert repertoire during the week and will then perform it in a concert setting, open to the public. It will be a charity concert and any voluntary donations given by attendees will go toward music programs at Mack Lyon Middle School and Moapa Valley High School.
Last year’s concert was successful in raising $1100 in donations for those programs.
The camp will bring together talented instructors from all over the country.
Camp director will be Adam Howard from Greenville, South Carolina. Howard has worked with choirs and orchestras as a Minister of Music and Worship Pastor for the past fifteen years. He has also performed with several groups in concerts halls across the southeast.
The guest orchestral conductor at the camp will be Mr. Michael Lutz. Lutz began his music career at the Ohio State University and as a member of the US Army Band. He has more than 37 years of teaching experience, primarily in middle and high schools, serving 19 of those years as director of bands. Mr. Lutz has served in the music program of several local churches and currently serves at First Baptist Church of the Islands in Savannah, GA.
Guest choral conductors for the camp are Cynthia Dooley, from Savannah, Georgia, and Amanda Richards of Tifton, Georgia.
Dooley is a retired elementary music teacher whose students performed with the National Children’s Choir at Carnegie Hall in New York and at other venues throughout the southeast.
Richards has been a music educator for 12 years. She taught beginning band for seven years and has also directed school plays.
Lunch will provided to the kids each day of the camp. And each camper will receive music, a pencil, a camp t-shirt, a cinch bag and a wrist band all at no charge.
Registration is going on now and can be done at www.lakemeadbaptist.org/summer-music-camp.html
