Summer Music Camps at Meredith College
Community School of Music Summer camps will soon be enrolling students for Summer 2025. If you do not see dates and information for a camp you are interested in, please check back before May to see what will be offered. Our instructors are finalizing their plans now.
Registration links are listed below each camp description if the camp is open for registration.
We hope to see you this summer!
This camp is sponsored by Meredith College in collaboration with Wake County Public Schools. With a goal of providing student musicians with an opportunity to develop their musicianship skills when school is not in session. The camp will culminate in a performance of pops music in the picturesque McIver Amphitheater. The staff will be Wake County strings educators and Meredith College music faculty.
The camp is open to area strings students who have a minimum of one year of performing experience. The music to be performed will include pops and film score music geared toward students who have played for around 1-2 years.
Camp Dates: July 21-25, 2025, 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. The camp will end with a concert in the early evening on Friday, July 25.
Camp Location: Jones-Wainwright Music Building, Meredith College.
Cost: $220.00 (Payments must be received by July 14, 2025). The cost of the camp includes 4 lunches and a t-shirt.
Registration Deadline: Monday, July 14, 2025 (late registrations accepted on a space-available basis). After completing the registration information, use the link below. Bring a copy of the registration form that is sent to you by email and mail it along with your payment (check, bank check, or money order) to:
Meredith College Department of Music, 104 Wainwright Music Building, 3800 Hillsborough St., Raleigh, NC 27607-5298.
For more information, contact Dr. Jim Waddelow at waddelow@meredith.edu.
This camp, sponsored by Meredith College in collaboration with Durham Public Schools, is designed to provide student musicians with a chance to continue to develop their musicianship skills when school is not in session.
Camp Dates: July 21-24, 2025
Location: Charles E. Jordan High School
Cost: $175.00 (Payments due by June 1, 2025).
Checks payable to Meredith College. Financial assistance is available by request.
PAYMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY June 1, 2025.
Bull City Strings Camp Registration Form.
Contact Carrie Andrews at carrie_andrews@dpsnc.net with questions
NO NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THIS CAMP IS AVAILABLE YET.
Percussion Camp will be held again this summer at Meredith College. It is open to fifth through ninth graders who are interested in enhancing their skills in a group setting.
Camp Dates: July 23-26, 2024
Location: 119 Wainwright Music Building, Meredith College.
Cost: $235.00
Meredith College Percussion Camp Form
Contact Hal Sargent at fdsargent@meredith.edu with questions.
Four piano camps will be offered during the summer of 2025.
Click here for the Piano Camps registration form.
To set up an interview/audition please contact Tom Lohr at lohrt@meredith.edu .
NEW for summer 2025
Composer Awakening – Broadening Your Musical Horizons
Camp for Ambitious Young Composers Currently in the Process of Composing:
This camp is designed for serious composition students, the approach with musical analysis that will be taken should interest and be valuable for any serious music student. No actual composing is required.
Camp Dates: July 21-25, 2025
Camp Times: 9:00 a.m-12:00 p.m. daily
Cost: $150.00
For detailed information about the Composter Awakening Camp use the link here.
Click here for the Piano Camps registration form.
To set up an interview/audition please contact Tom Lohr at lohrt@meredith.edu .
More details for the piano camps can be found here.
Intensive Piano Camp
Camp Dates: June 23-27, 2025
Camp Times: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Grand Finale Recital, Saturday, June 28, 3:00 p.m.
Cost: $400.00 Includes lunch.
Middle School Composition Camp
Camp Dates: July 7-11, 2025
Camp Times: 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Cost: $150.00. Limit 6 students.
High School Theory Camp
Camp Dates: July 14-18, 2025
Camp Times: 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Cost: $150.00 per week.
Limit 15 students (one group). Grades 10,11,12. Younger students are admitted in special instances.
Location for all piano camps: Wainwright Music Building, Meredith College.
Click here for the Piano Camps registration form.
Contact Tom Lohr at lohrt@meredith.edu or 919-760-8378 with questions.
Registration for all summer music camps are made through the Meredith College Community School of Music.
Contact Information
3800 Hillsborough Street
Raleigh, NC 27607-5298
Phone: (919) 760-8600
Fax: (919) 760-8330
1-800-MEREDITH
