Summer Music Camps & Programs

This list is parent-curated. If you have any additions, contact info@smsparents.org. Please note: The following is provided for info only. The PTA is not affiliated with, nor does it endorse, any particular program.

Northeast:

• Greenwood Music Camp Assorted age groups  |  Cummington, MA

• Tanglewood Institute ages 14 – 18  |  Lenox, MA

• Kinhaven Music Camp  grades 4 – 12  |  Weston, VT

• Bard College Conservatory of Music  ages 3 – 18 |  Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

• Lyra Summer Music Workshop assorted ages and programs  |  Randolph, VT

• Point CounterPoint ages 8 – 18  |  Leicester, VT

• Bar Harbor Brass Week ages 9 – 12  |  Bar Harbor, ME

• Camp Encore/Coda grades 4 – 11  |  Sweden, ME

• New England Music Camp ages 11 – 18  |  Sidney, ME

• Rutgers Summer Band and Orchestra Camp ages 13 – 18  |  New Brunswick, NJ

• Summer Chamber Music and Chamber Orchestra with The Chamber Music Center of New York ages 8-25  |  The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, NY (in 2023) 

• Summer Interlude at the Brearley School grades 3 – 12  |  610 East 83rd Street, New York, NY

• Third Street Music School Settlement: Chamber Music Workshop ages 8 – 18  |   235 East 11th St, New York, NY

• Turtle Bay Music School Summer Camps assorted programs  |  244 East 52nd Street, New York, NY

• Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts grades 4 – 12  |  Long Island & Connecticut

• Crane Youth Music ages 12 – 18  |  SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY

• Eastern U.S. Music Camp ages 10 – 18  |  Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

• French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts ages 7 – 17  |  Hancock, NY

• Ithaca College Summer Music Academy  grades 5 – 9 |  Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

• Luzerne Music Center  ages 9 – 19  |  Luzerne, NY “Many of the SMS Flute students have attended this music camp over the past 10 years – most have returned numerous years.  It comes highly recommended!”  —Valerie Holmes SMS Flute Faculty

• Meadowmount School of Music ages 9 – 30  |  Westport, NY

• New York Summer Music Festival (NYSMF) ages 11 – 25  |  Oneonta, New York

• Signature Music Camp at Cazenovia College grades 8 – 12  |  Cazenovia, NY

• Summit Music Festival ages 14 and older  |  Purchase, NY

Mid-West, West, South, and Canada:

• Rushmore Music Festival ages 10-18 | Spearfish, SD

• Rocky Ridge Music Center ages 10 – 15  |  Estes Park, CO

• Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp  grades 5 – 12  |  Twin Lakes, MI

• Interlochen Arts Camp ages 8 – 18  |  Interlochen, MI (use code SpecialMusicSchool25 in order to waive the application fee)

• Brevard Music Center  ages 14 – 18  |  Brevard, NC

• Eastern Music Festival ages 14 – 22  |  Greensboro, NC

• Baldwin Wallace Summer Music Programs grades 4 – 12  |  Berea, OH

• Credo Chamber Music ages 13- 23  |  Oberlin, OH

• Friends Music Camp ages 10 – 18  |  Barnesville, OH

• Sewanee Summer Music Festival ages 12 and up  |  Sewanee, TN

• Music at Port Milford ages 12 – 18  |  Milford, Ontario

RESOURCES FOR INSTRUMENTS, MUSIC AND MORE

Strings

• Strings and Other Things
• Johnson String Instruments
• Shar Music
• Cello Bello

Music Theory and Practice

• Music Theory (parent recommendation)
• Musician’s Practice Planner (parent recommendation) 

General

Automatic Noise Canceling and Volume Limiting Headphones - PuroQuiet (parent recommendation)