2024-2025 Season
Welcoming our FIRST ANNUAL Summer Music Camp 2024!
We are hosting THREE weeks of Summer Music Camp in partnership with Macedonia Lutheran Church and Mount Hope UCC to provide a Summer full of music, outdoor activities, water games and challenges, and crafts for students of all ages.
Scholarships are available as well as Family Discounts. Please express your interest in these opportunities when registering!
Camp Dates and Sessions
Session 1: Rhythm and Band Camp
June 24-28, 2024 • 7:30 AM - 1:00 PM • $175 plus $50 deposit per student
- Open to Rising 1st-12th Grade • Winds (flute, clarinet, saxophone), Brass (trumpet, trombone, baritone), and Choir plus rotating Piano and Bucket Drumming classes
- Beginner and Intermediate Students Welcome
- Lunch, Borrowed Instrument, and T-Shirt Included
- End of Session Concert and Celebration Friday evening!
Deadline to register: June 7th, 2024
$50.00 non-refundable deposit required upon registration
Session 2: All About Strings Camp
July 22-26, 2024 • 7:30 AM - 1:00 PM • $175 plus $50 deposit per student
- Open to Rising 1st-12th Grade • Strings (violin, viola, cello, bass) and Choir plus rotating Modern Band and Guitar classes
- Beginner and Intermediate Students Welcome
- Lunch, Borrowed Instrument, and T-Shirt Included
- End of Session Concert and Celebration Friday evening!
Deadline to register: July 5th, 2024
$50.00 non-refundable deposit required upon registration
Session 3: Music Accelerator Camp
August 12-16, 2024 • 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM • $225 plus $50 deposit per student
- Open to Middle and High School students • Strings, Wind/Brass, Percussion, and Choir
- Limited to Advanced Students Only
- Preparatory Camp • Alamance Youth Orchestra audition available in-camp
- Lunch, Borrowed Instrument, and T-Shirt Included
- End of Session Concert and Celebration Friday evening!
Deadline to register: August 2nd, 2024
$50.00 non-refundable deposit required upon registration
Applications for our 2024-2025 Season Coming Soon!
We offer classes for musicians for 1st-12th graders at all skill levels. Programming will take place Monday through Saturday. Limited spots are available and all applications must be reviewed before registration is finalized.
We now offer three types of programs for all prospective and returning students. Upon application approval, a non-refundable, non-transferrable fee of $50 must be satisfied to ensure your spot.
Applications are now closed for the 2024 Spring Semester.
We are still offering Private Lessons - contact us for more information!
Major Classes
Saturdays, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
- Choice of Wind Band or String Orchestra class
- Wind Band includes flute, clarinet, trumpet, baritone, alto saxophone and trombone
- String Orchestra includes violin, viola, cello, and bass
- Modern Band class
- General Music class (audiation, movement, composition, and more!)
- Guided Practice small group sessions available for participating programs
Minor Classes
Monday through Friday, 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
- Two weekday classes of your choice
- Weekday classes include piano, guitar, ukulele, percussion, and jam sessions
- Guided Practice small group sessions available for participating programs
*Full or partial scholarships are available on a sliding-scale and will be determined upon acceptance of the application process.
Interested in hosting YMA?
We are always looking to expand our community offerings. If you are an organization who would like to add music to your programming, please reach out to us at contact@ymofa.org
Advantages of Music Education for Children
- Musical training helps develop language and reasoning
- A mastery of memorization
- Students learn to improve their work
- Increased coordination
- A sense of achievement
- Kids stay engaged in school
- Success in society
- Emotional development
- Students learn pattern recognition
- Better SAT scores
- Fine-tuned auditory skills
- Music builds imagination and intellectual curiosity
- Music can be relaxing
- Musical instruments can teach discipline
- Preparation for the creative economy
- Development in creative thinking
- Music can develop spatial intelligence
- Kids can learn teamwork
- Responsible risk-taking
- Better self-confidence
(from nafme.org)
