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47 Years of Music Making

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At Lamar Stringfield Music Camp, our campers become family during the one or two weeks of day camp held in Raleigh, NC.

Our students, ages 6-18 years old, have experience ranging from one year of study all the way up through advanced-level playing. All campers work alongside peers, mentors, and faculty to create and explore beautiful music, building lasting friendships and a community to return to year after year.

Always Something Going On

The moment they arrive, campers are met with warmth and enthusiasm as they gather to master musical ideas through activities designed to keep everyone engaged, inspired, and having fun!

Movement games, theory classes, rehearsals, recitals – even a daily raffle and the ever-so-popular Counselor skits and performances – encourage all to grow as musicians while working together toward a common goal: the final Friday morning concert, performed with pride for a full house of supportive family and friends.

Program Overview

Orchestra and Division placement determines specific schedule and course offerings. Please click on Programs and Schedules to find out more about the various levels and opportunities:

Mozart Music Makers String Orchestra (ages 6 – 10)
Haydn String Orchestra (ages 10 - 18)
Honors Chamber Orchestra (ages 12 – 18) including winds (Session One), by audition
Honors Beethoven Orchestra (Session Two), by audition

History & Impact

The Lamar Stringfield Music Camp (LSMC) has educated thousands of young students in the art and technique of music-making, within a warm and entertaining camp setting.

Meredith College music faculty member Phyllis Garriss founded the camp in 1979. She felt strongly that music in the Wake County schools should be given full support by the community and wanted to work with the schoolteachers to build on the progress made in their school-year programs. This is still a primary mission of LSMC. The camp also provides scholarships every summer to those in need.

The program’s Honors Chamber Music students, including strings, and piano, are admitted to the program by audition only. This year, there are approximately 33 students in this elite group, while the total camp population is 109. Teachers include professional musicians, University of North Carolina and Meredith College faculty, high-level music educators and conductors with a national reputation. The camp is named for Lamar Stringfield, the founder of the North Carolina Symphony whose father, Oliver Larkin Stringfield helped to build Meredith College.

The program’s most advanced, graduating students are continuing their music education at many leading conservatories and universities including the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory, Northwestern University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music, Rice University, and Oberlin Conservatory.

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47 Years of Music Making

Come Join Us!

Always Something Going On

Program Overview

History & Impact

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