Summer Camps
Summer Music Camp 2025 Application is OPEN!
It's time for our second annual Summer Music Camp with YMA!
Join us for one two-week session from June 16-27 at Macedonia Lutheran Church in Burlington for two weeks of music, arts, and summertime fun!
What's included:
- T-Shirt
- Lunch and Snacks
- Opportunity to practice and learn 4+ instruments, including our newest class "Music Production"
- End of Camp Showcase Performance
- A lifetime of memories!
All registration forms require a non-refundable, non-transferable deposit of $50 to secure your child's enrollment. Tuition is $500 for the entire two week session with Financial Aid available per request.
Please email us at summerprograms@ymofa.org if you have any questions.
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)
