StringsCamps / Outreach

Strings Camp

Come join the SFA strings faculty, guest artists and staff for a week of unforgettable music making and friendship. The SFA strings camp invites junior high and high school students to be involved in this one-week intensive orchestra camp. The dates for the 2013 SFA strings camp are July 7–12, 2013.

By coming to the SFA Strings camps, you get to experience all that SFA has to offer. Here at the SFA camps, you work with nationally renowned faculty members including SFA’s string faculty and students.

So what are you waiting for? Come to SFA and take home an experience for a lifetime. We promise you a week of great music making and fun!

Registration

• Register online and pay with credit card (The preceding link only toggles the on-screen display)

  1. Mail the completed authorization for medical treatment and waiver of liability form to the address listed below:

     SFA School of Music Strings Camp
     Box 13043, SFA Station
     Nacogdoches, Texas 75962-3043

  2. Complete the online registration and payment.

• Register by mail and pay with check (The preceding link only toggles the on-screen display)

  Mail the completed paper registration and authorization for medical treatment and waiver of liability forms, along with check payment, to the address listed below:

  SFA School of Music Strings Camp
  Box 13043, SFA Station
  Nacogdoches, Texas 75962-3043

Documents and Information

• SFA Strings Camp information sheet

• View camp concerto competition information (The preceding link only toggles the on-screen display)

  Camp Concerto Competition

  Each year the SFA strings camp offers the unique opportunity to spotlight one student soloist to perform with the orchestra at the final gala concert of the week. Interested students must prepare the required concerto movement for their instrument and be prepared to perform the work by memory. The competition to select the winner will take place on the first day of camp, Sunday, July 7, 2013. Each applicant will rehearse with an assigned accompanist after registration in preparation for the audition. The performance will take place on Friday, July 12, 2013 at 3 p.m.

  Required Concerto Repertoire

  • Violin: Haydn, Violin Concerto in G major, first movement with cadenza
  • Viola: Stamitz, Viola Concerto in D major, first movement with cadenza
  • Cello: Boccherini, Cello concerto in B-flat, first movement with cadenza
  • Double bass: Dragonetti Double bass concerto, first movement

  To be announced

  If you have any questions, please contact the camp director, Dr. Gene H. Moon, at moongh@sfasu.edu or call 936.468-3885.

• Music excerpts (The preceding link only toggles the on-screen display)

  The following are excerpts each SFA string camp participant is expected to prepare for the first day of camp. This is not a complete list of repertoire for the week but selections for auditions only. If you are entering the 8th grade or under, you must prepare the junior high material. If you are entering the 10th grade and above, you must prepare the high school material. Those entering the 9th grade have the option to prepare either junior high or high school material, however, is subject to orchestra placement based upon audition as decided by the camp faculty.

  High School Camp Excerpts

  • Violin 1: Elgar, Herbert
  • Violin 2: Elgar, Herbert
  • Viola: Elgar, Herbert
  • Cello: Elgar, Herbert
  • Double Bass: Elgar, Herbert

  Junior High Camp Excerpts

  • Violin
  • Viola
  • Cello
  • Double Bass

SCHOOL OF MUSIC
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS
STEPHEN F. AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY
Box 13043, SFA Station, Nacogdoches, TX 75962-3043
Phone: 936.468.4602 | Fax: 936.468.5810
Dr. Scott Harris, Interim Director