Summer Camp 2024 and SV-Two 2024-2025
Rising 2nd and 3rd Graders
CAMP
Dates: August 19, 2024 – August 23, 2024
When you register for Sisters’ Voices Camp 2024 you will also register for the 2024-2025 year. It is possible to register for the year without registering for camp, but not possible to register for camp without registering for the year. Camp is definitely encouraged for both new and returning singers! It will help singers connect to each other and build musical skills that will be important for the coming year.
Sisters’ Voices Camp week for the summer of 2024 will focus on 2nd – 5th graders who will sing with Sisters’ Voices ensembles for the 2024-2025 season. This camp will help singers connect to each other and build musical skills that will be important for the coming year.
Skills are encountered and built through making music together, movement, playing games, working puzzles, and other activities. Camp week is full of fun, and it focuses on building individual skills and knowledge, and on the singers getting to know each other better.
Singers will work on solfege with both Curwen handsigns and musical notation.
We’ll explore good vocal technique through a study of anatomy of breath and voice.
We’ll explore the ways singing is like a sport.
We’ll explore some great poetry and find ways to use elements of music (pitch, rhythm and meter, form, dynamics, articulation) to express the poems.
We’ll learn several pieces of music, focusing on learning to sing in parts and unaccompanied, building in details of expressiveness.
Each day will begin with a thorough warm-up that will include stretching, movement, and aural and vocal exercises.
There will be no public performance at the end of this camp week; it is a treasure that we have time together that is not pressured by the demands of producing a performance. Much of the repertoire that we study during camp will be performed at early performances during the year (if we are selected to perform at the Carrboro Music Festival, etc).
Sisters’ Voices Camp 2024 will take place in the Fellowship Hall and Room 15 at Binkley Church from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. each day. Please reach out to Leandra at leandra@sistersvoices.org if you’ll need earlier care or later care — we can usually accommodate that and will work to find a way for everyone who wants to participate to do so.
Full cost: $325 for the week
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SV-TWO ENSEMBLE
SV-Two continues with more complicated games and dances. Singers learn to navigate a simple choral score, reading simple rhythms and pitches. Singers participate in at least two performances during the year, singing pieces as an ensemble and with the tutti SV ensembles. Singers are challenged to develop strong rehearsal habits, make friends, and have fun making music together.
SV-Two can be either a full year commitment or a semester-long commitment. For the fall semester, singers rehearse once a week from September through mid-January. The spring semester will take place from mid-January through May. Each semester will culminate in a concert. Towards the beginning of January, singers who chose the semester-only option may choose to continue for the remainder of the year if they would like.
Rehearsals will occur from 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm on Thursdays in the Binkley Preschool wing of Binkley Baptist Church, 1712 Willow Drive, Chapel Hill.
COST: The cost of the semester-long ensemble is $256. The cost of the full year ensemble is $512. A sliding scale is available. Please see the information on the Tuition 2024-2025 page or the table at the bottom of this page in regards to tuition payments this year.
For the semester-long ensemble: Upon registration, all families will pay a non-refundable deposit equal to the first month’s tuition. Families may then choose to pay the remaining balance in full or to schedule monthly payments. If you choose to pay in full, the remaining balance will be automatically drafted from your card on October 1st. If you choose to schedule monthly payments, your card will automatically be drafted on the first of the month from October through December.
For the year-long ensemble: Upon registration, all families will pay a non-refundable deposit equal to the first and last months’ tuition. Families may then choose to pay the remaining balance in full or to schedule monthly payments. If you choose to pay in full, the remaining balance will be automatically drafted from your card on October 1st. If you choose to schedule monthly payments, your card will automatically be drafted on the first of the month from October through March.
Questions regarding ensemble programming and rehearsals should be directed to Leandra: leandra@sistersvoices.org
Questions regarding registration and tuition payments should be directed to Jenny: jenny@sistersvoices.org