Diana Springford – Director of Music P-12

Sign up now – Emanuel School Music Camp 2024

Music Camp is a wonderful celebration of our vibrant music culture and the talents and hard work of our young musicians. Each camp is a special experience for students, as they unite in a shared love of music and work together in the pursuit of excellence. Emanuel School music staff join with a team of highly skilled professional musicians to develop and hone students’ musical skills in preparation for an exciting showcase concert. All members of core ensembles and choirs in Years 4 – 11 are expected to attend Music Camp, because the individual rewards are significant and the ensemble and choir gains are tremendous in terms of co-ordination, quality and understanding.

Music Camp is a four-day camp from Monday 24 June 2024 – Thursday 27 June 2024. The first three days are held at Lake Mac Outdoor Recreation Centre in Balcolyn and the final day is held at School. Students return to Emanuel on the evening of Wednesday 26 June 2024, to be collected by parents in the early evening. Camp continues on Thursday 27 June 2024 with an all-day rehearsal, a BBQ dinner for students and our Music Camp Showcase Concert in the MPH on the Thursday evening.

The cost is $650 and the due date to apply is by Friday 3 May 2024. Payment can be made in full or in two instalments, the first of which would be payable on or by Friday 3 May 2024. Attendance for Year 12 students is encouraged but optional. Year 12 students who are interested in attending should email Ms Springford as soon as possible as she will need to consult your teachers. An information note has been sent to parents of eligible students, including the procedure for registering to attend. If you have not received this email (sent on Thursday 4 April 2024), please email Mrs de Araujo including your child’s name, year group and their ensemble or choir name.

To be eligible for Music Camp, a student must have been a committed member of a core ensemble for Terms 1 and 2 of 2024 and undertake to continue their commitment for the whole year. Core ensembles include Junior or Senior Choir; Wind Band, Concert Band or Symphonic Winds; Rubinstein, Korngold or Mendelssohn Strings and Beginner or Intermediate Guitar Ensemble. We plan to timetable rehearsal sessions for the extension ensembles of chamber choirs stage bands, jazz bands and Klezmer Ensemble. There will be no Rock Bands at camp this year.

Here are some highlights from last year:

‘At the end of music camp, we had a huge showcase to show what we did at music camp and to watch all the amazing songs everyone had learnt in four days! It was so much fun!’ Year 6 2023 Music Leaders (Sophia Rule, Zoe Lawrence, Arya Cohen and Daniel Joffe).

‘Music Camp was the best! Once music camp ended, it was all they could talk about.’ Ariella Mervis and Dalia Lopis (2023 Year 4 attendees).

‘The highly anticipated annual Music camp brings unmatched excitement for all students involved and this is apparent the minute we step off the bus…. Whilst hectic, the high antics always result in a wonderful musical experience, where we get to show off to the community just how much we love to play’ Ariel Solomon and Max Salamon (2023 Year 10 attendees).