Youth Programs | Music & Creative Arts

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Due to COVID-19, the 2021 conference and camp offerings continue to change.  For the most up-to-date information, check each program page. The University is closely monitoring the situation, and we invite you to check back as we continue to modify our summer plans.

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Music & Creative Arts Camps and Conferences

Fry Street Chamber Music Festival
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The Fry Street Chamber Music Festival seeks to create engaged and passionate chamber musicians and citizens through a uniquely personalized and intense environment of study. Daily rehearsals, coaching sessions, and other activities give students the opportunity to learn lifelong skills of collaboration, trust, and communication, all while deepening their musical understanding.
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Summer Piano Festival
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A typical daily schedule includes music enrichment seminars, collaboration, masterclasses, concerts, and lecture demonstrations. Additionally, students will receive private lessons with piano festival faculty members.

Festival participants will get to perform in the Russell Wanlass Performance Hall, and will have a chance to hear several concerts throughout the week. In addition to evening performances, students will get to enjoy recreational activities like kayaking at Logan Canyon's beautiful First Dam.
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Vocal Performance Camp
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Well known in Utah for over 15 years, Vocal Performance Camp for boys and girls ages 12 through 18 years is held each summer in Cache Valley in the Chase Fine Arts Center at Utah State University. Sponsored by the USU Department of Music, this camp offers a unique cross-training experience helping young singers benefit from classical vocal training as the appropriate entry to musical theater.

Features of the camp include:
  • Semi private classical voice instruction
  • Choral classes
  • Choreographed production numbers
  • Solo opportunities
  • Classical vocal master classes
  • Audition tips and experience
  • Musicianship training
  • Class recitals and stage performances
  • Friendly and encouraging environment
  • Experienced faculty
  • Over 32 hours of instruction
  • No prior vocal training is needed
  • Unchanged boys voice welcomed
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Young Writers and Artists Fest
Young Writers and Artists Fest
The Young Writers and Artists Fest is a gathering each year held at Utah State University of students who like to write or create artwork. It is an all day (school day) event where young writers read their work to others and artists display their pieces. It's a nice chance to hang out with other writers and artists.
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Cache Children’s Choir
Cache Children’s Choir
Listen to the Earth
With nature as our theme, we invite children ages 4 - 8 to experience and learn about music in a joyful way. What do you hear when you go outside? What makes those sounds? What happens when we combine those sounds? Activities will include creative movement, playing simple instruments, singing and singing games, literature, and visual art. We will spend one day at the Stokes Nature Center. The camp is sponsored by Cache Children’s Choir.

Bluegrass Jubilee
Have an incredible musical experience this summer with Cache Children’s Choir at the Bluegrass Jubilee! Students will sing in a musical theater “Hoedown;” explore, collaborate, and create music using Bluegrass-style rhythms; make music on the harmonica and dulcimer; and enjoy lots of movement with square dancing and line dancing. Ages 8-14
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