Summer Programs
Families, school-aged children, teens and adults can explore new skills over the summer. Multiple camps and summer workshops keep the music playing!
Kindermusik® Adventures
June 8 - July 7, 2022
9:30-10:15 a.m. | 10:30-11:15 a.m. | 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Application Deadline: May 15, 2022
Tuition: $150.00 (includes materials kit)
Sibling Tuition: $115 (no kit included)
6 months - 5 years and their caregivers.
Experience enough music, stories, and activities to inspire a lifetime of learning! In Kindermusik® camp, parents and children will play, learn, sing, dance, create, and share in the fun of making music together. Each one of our activities is specially designed to nurture every child’s natural curiosity, encouraging each child to learn new words, new concepts, and new ideas. Tuition includes materials kit. One full kit per family required.
Webster Groves, CMS Center
Wednesdays, June 8, 15, 22, 29, July 6
9:30–10:15 a.m. or 10:30–11:15 a.m. or 11:30-12:15 p.m.
Chesterfield, Strauss Center in Faust Park
Thursdays, June 9, 16, 23, 30, July 7
9:30–10:15 a.m. or 10:30–11:15 a.m.
String Orchestra Camp
June 13 - 17, 2022
9 a.m.-12 p.m.
CMS Center-Webster Groves
Application Deadline: May 15, 2022
Tuition: $175.00*
String students age 7- high school
Students participate daily in full string orchestra rehearsals, sectionals, and master classes/special presentations. Three orchestra levels under the direction of CMS orchestra conductors will musically challenge every student.
*String Camp Package: Enroll in String Orchestra Camp and Chamber Music Encounter and pay a combined tuition of only $500.00
Chamber Music Encounter
June 13 - 17, 2022
1–5 p.m.
CMS Center-Webster Groves
Application Deadline: April 1, 2022
Still accepting applications for Viola students.
Tuition: $380.00*
String & piano students through high school
Professional chamber musicians and CMS faculty well experienced in chamber group settings will coach trios, quartets, and quintets in this wonderful music form where compositions are performed by and written for one player for each part. Guest performers and speakers will share their experience in successful chamber music performance and ensemble development. Culminating presentation by all groups at the end of the camp.
Acceptance is based on audition, instrumentation needs for chamber ensembles (trios, quartets, quintets), and readiness for small ensemble playing.
String players need a developed vibrato. Students must be at or beyond the following
representative minimum skill levels:
Violin: Suzuki Book 4-Vivaldi a minor Concerto
Viola: Suzuki Book 4-Seitz Concerto #2, 3rd movement
Cello: Suzuki Book 4-Breval Sonata in C Major
Piano: Clementi or Kuhlau Sonatinas
Space is limited. Audition video required after application.
*String Camp Package: Enroll in String Orchestra Camp and Chamber Music Encounter and pay a combined tuition of only $500.00
Flute Camp
June 6 - 9: 4-7 p.m.
June 10: 2-5 p.m.
CMS Center-Webster Groves
Application Deadline: May 15, 2022
Tuition: $155.00
Grades 7-12 in Fall 2022
Calling all flutists! Facilitated by Nadine Hur, this program is designed to address individual strengths and challenges. It includes warm-up exercises, tone, intonation and breathing techniques, and nationally-renown guest flutists. Past guests include Jeannie Baxtresser, Soo-Kyung Park, Keith Underwood, Immanuel Davis, Katherine Borst Jones, and Hadar Noiberg.
Band Camp
June 20 - 24, 2022
9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
CMS Center-Webster Groves
Application Deadline EXTENDED: May 15, 2022
Tuition: $275.00
Grades 7-12 in Fall 2022
Participate in ensembles, master classes, and special events while learning important practice and audition preparation techniques. Work directly with St. Louis professional musicians who play your instrument! Meet and play music with students from around the bi-state area. We hope to split students into MS & HS groups, while allowing advanced MS students the opportunity to audition into the HS group. The week concludes with a full concert by the entire band.
Summer Composition Intensive
July 11 - 22, 2022
9 a.m.-2 p.m. (M-F)
CMS Center-Webster Groves
Application Deadline: June 15, 2022
Tuition: $405.00
Grades 7-12 in Fall 2022
Students will develop their compositions with St. Louis area composers and musicians. Work will be in groups according to experience level - from those needing the basics of notation, transposition, and scoring, to students with prior composing experience. The culminating event will feature each original work performed and recorded by professional musicians.
Clazz
String Intensive
July 6 – 10, 2022
9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
CMS Center-Webster Groves
Application Deadline: June 1, 2022
Tuition: $400.00
Intermediate to advanced string players ages 12 & up, including adults & professionals.
The Clazz String Intensive is designed to introduce classically-trained string players to the art of improvisation through the pedagogical ideals of jazz and musical languages from other cultures. This summer students will be exposed to jazz, blues, bluegrass, tango, and more. Faculty will include Clazz Quartet (Jeremy Cohen, Helmut Lipsky, Matt Pickart, and Cris Campbell) and special guests. For further information, please visit Clazz International Music Festival.
Requirements
Popular Songwriting Camp
June 6 - 10, 2022
9 a.m.-1 p.m.
CMS Center-Webster Groves
Application Deadline: May 15, 2022
Tuition: $250.00
Grades 9-12 in Fall 2022
Whether you’re a seasoned tunesmith or just beginning to create your own music, this camp is for you! Songwriting Camp includes daily songwriting technique lessons, co-writing sessions with peers coached by camp faculty, feedback sessions with camp faculty and peers, and a culminating concert. This camp focuses on contemporary, mass-market popular songwriting in a variety of styles.
Webster University
Department of Music Summer Programs
Learn More about Music Department camps
Jazz Camp 2022
July 11 - 15, 2022
9 a.m.-5 p.m.
For beginning, intermediate, and advanced level jazz improvisers and instrumentalists entering grades 9–adult in Fall 2022
Instructors: Paul DeMarinis, Kim Portnoy, Kevin Gianino,Tom Byrne, Dave Black, Nick Savage, Willem von Hombracht,Ben Wheeler, and others.
Classical Piano Camp
July 18 - 22, 2022
9 a.m.-3 p.m
Students entering 6th to 12th grade in Fall 2022
2022 Guest Artist: Melissa Coppola, DMA, Director of Keyboard Studies, Webster University
Instructors:Pat Eastman, MM; Caroline Hixson, MM, NCTM;Sue Martin, MM; Ruth Price, DMA; Donna Vince, MM, NCTM
Application Deadline: June 27, 2022 to submit pre-screening videos
MOCM Adult Chamber Music Intensive
June 27 - July 2, 2022
CMS Center - Webster Groves
Application Deadline EXTENDED: April 14, 2022
Tuition: $350.00
Intermediate and Advanced instrumentalists age 21 and over
The MOCM Adult Chamber Music Intensive places adult amateur instrumentalists in chamber ensembles of various sizes and instrumentation to work with faculty player/coaches. The collaborative faculty have included members of the St. Louis and Boston Symphony Orchestras, the Arianna String Quartet, and other St. Louis area performers and teachers.
Adult String Orchestra
July 5 - 9, 2022
5-8 p.m.
CMS Center-Webster Groves
Application Deadline: May 15, 2022
Tuition: $250.00
Adult violin, viola, cello & string bass students (age 19+)
Ready to dust off those group-playing skills? Join us for this not-quite-beginner string orchestra for adult students. Some experience playing in an orchestra or ensemble (even if it was decades ago) is helpful. Participate in string orchestra rehearsals with CMS conductor and sectional coaches. An informal performance for friends and family will be held on the last day of camp. Great opportunity for individual adult string lesson students!
Beginner Strings Adult Group Class
July 5 - 9, 2022
5-8 p.m.
CMS Center-Webster Groves
Application Deadline: May 15, 2022
Tuition: $250.00
Adult violin, viola, cello & students (age 19+)
Interested in learning to play violin, viola, or cello in a group setting? Come join us for a week of learning a string instrument from scratch alongside other adults in a friendly group environment. No previous musical experience required. At the end of camp, students will join the Adult String Orchestra for an informal performance for friends and family.
Summer Session of Individual Lessons
June 18 - August 1, 2022
All Ages!
Registration begins in June. Click here to submit the inquiry form.
Take your musicianship to the next level! Individual lessons give you the personal attention you need to succeed. 30-, 45-, or 60-minute lessons are available. Students must have their own instruments. A traditional piano is preferred for piano students.
Youngest Beginning Lesson Age:
- Piano and Guitar: ages 6
- String Instruments: ages 7-8
- Woodwinds, Brass and Percussion: ages 9-10
- Composition, Harp, Voice: age 12 (Composition students must have basic note-reading skills)
Lesson locations available in Webster Groves and Chesterfield.