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2025
Summer Camps
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CAMPS
STRINGS CAMP: GAMES & MORE
Monday – Friday, June 9-13, 2025
9:30am-12:30pm
$110/$115/$125
Designed for students in their first 1-3 years, this camp is geared towards fun, fun, fun!
Games are used to reinforce and help memorize important concepts in the early stages of string growth. Topics covered include note reading, musical terms & symbols, dynamics, bow holds, steady beat, and rhythm.
BEGINNING VIOLIN CAMP
Monday – Friday, June 9-13, 2025
2:00-4:00pm
Ages 8-13
$75/$90/$100
This camp is designed for anyone who wants to learn to play violin and has no prior experience!
This intensive camp will have you playing recognizable songs in no time!
Soo Theatre has a limited number of instruments to loan for this camp. If we do not have the correct instrument or size, the family would secure a rental instrument.
Email education@sootheatre.org for rental information.
3 PIGGY OPERA CAMP
Monday – Friday, June 16 – 20, 2025
9:30am-12pm
Performance Friday, June 20, 11:30am
Ages 4-10
$100/$115/$125
Opera for our youngest students! Students will huff, puff, and learn opera terms all while singing great songs and having fun with friends in this classic fairy tale. This is a great experience for a first time theater student!
BEGINNING PIANO CAMP
Monday – Friday, June 16-20, 2025
9:30am-12:00pm
Ages 7-12
$100/$115/$125
This beginning piano camp is designed for students who have never played the piano before but want to learn and get a good foundation. Using games and play, students will learn rhythms, note reading, musical terms and symbols, and will leave camp playing a number of songs that will prepare them for future lessons. A great introduction to music and the piano!
PIANO CAMP
Monday – Friday, June 16-20, 2025
1:00-4:00pm
Ages 8 & up
$115/$125/$135
This camp is designed for students who already play the piano, read music, and have some background in piano, but are still in their early stages of learning. This camp will use lots of games and other activities to reinforce musical concepts such as rhythm, tempo, note reading, and musical terms and symbols. Students will also learn to play songs in ensemble together and how to listen to other parts while maintaining focus on their own part.
NEURODIVERSE CAMP
Monday – Friday, June 16-20, 2025
1:00-2:30pm
Ages 5-10
$75/$90/$100
This camp is geared towards children with special needs. Campers will have the opportunity to work on communication, attention, and movement skills in the capacity of fun and engaging musical activities run by a board certified music therapist. Lots of singing, dancing, moving, and making new friends!
Parents who enroll students in this camp will receive a follow-up email asking questions that will help us to understand your camper better and what will make this camp more successful for them!
GOLDIE & THE BEARS
Monday – Friday, June 23-27, 2025
9:30am-12:00pm
Performance Friday, June 27, 6pm & Saturday, June 28, 12pm
Ages 4-10
$100/$115/$125
Knock, knock, knock! Is anybody home? Goldilocks is a curious girl who must find out! This classic tale, told through story and song, is another great experience for our early theater students!
THE ARISTOCATS KIDS
ELEMENTARY MUSICAL THEATER CAMP
Monday – Friday, June 23-27, 2025
10am-3pm
Performances Friday, June 27, 6pm & Saturday, June 28, 12pm
$135/$155/$175
“Everybody wants to be a cat!” Elementary students take the lead in this classic Disney tale. Students will audition during camp, learn their lines and songs, and be ready to sing, dance, and perform by the end of the week!
SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL JR.
MUSICAL THEATER CAMP
MS/HS Musical Theater Camp – 2 weeks
Monday – Thursday, June 30 – July 3, 2025
Monday – Friday, July 7 – 11, 2025
10am-3pm
Performances:
Friday, July 11, 2025 – 6pm
Saturday, July 12, 2025 – 12pm
$235/$255/$275
All of your favorite Dr. Seuss characters in one! Classic Dr. Seuss put to music! This 2-week camp is designed with our older theater students in mind. Students will audition and get a major musical theater production up in just 2 weeks!
Elementary joins the 2nd week.
SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL JR.
ELEMENTARY Musical Theater Camp
Monday – Friday, July 7-11, 2025
Performances:
Friday, July 11, 2025 – 6pm
Saturday, July 12, 2025 – 12pm
10am-3pm
$135/$155/$175
All of your favorite Dr. Seuss characters in one! Classic Dr. Seuss put to music!
Elementary students join our older students for one week of camp and performances.
ELEMENTARY ARTS EXPLORATION CAMP
Monday – Friday, July 14-18, 2025
10am-3pm
Showcase Friday, July 18, 2025 – TBA
$135/$155/$175
This camp explores many disciplines with the visual and performing arts. Students will make arts & crafts, work on a short play, hear a string quartet and participate in an “instrument petting zoo,” not to mention playing boom whackers and drums. Exploration is the key to this camp!
HULA HOOPIN’ QUEEN DAY AT SOO THEATRE
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
With local author Thelma Godin
Watch our website for more details!
ART CAMP:
ANIME & FANTASY DRAWING
Monday – Friday, July 14-18, 2025
1pm-4pm
MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
$115/$125/$135
Your artist will practice drawing characters with games and exercises used by professional artists and go through the design process to create and draw an original fictional character. Campers will also learn about anatomy and story based character design.
YOUTH ORCHESTRA CAMP
JAZZ, FIDDLE, ROCK
Monday – Friday, July 14-18, 2025
10am-3pm
Showcase Friday, July 18 TBA
$135/$155/$175
This youth orchestra camp will explore lots of different genres of music from jazz to fiddle to rock, plus some classical tunes as well. A lot of fun for your young strings musician!
OPERA & MUSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOP
Monday – Wednesday, July 14-16, 2025
Monday – Wednesday, July 21-23, 2025
11am-4pm
VOCAL GALA Thursday, July 24, 7pm
$235/$255/$275
This vocal workshop is designed for students and adults, from college voice majors, pre-career singers and young singers who are working on technique & artistry. This one-week intensive focuses on vocal technique and performance of songs from musical theater and opera. Students will participate in daily masterclasses with professional guest artists visiting for the opera. Sessions will be taught on technique, diction, and performance and will be applicable to singers of all levels.
OPERA APPRENTICE PROGRAM
HANSEL & GRETEL by Engelbert Humperdinck
Artists will also perform in the mainstage production of The Marriage of Figaro
July 17-August 10, 2025
Performance: Saturday, July 26, 2025 – 7pm
Touring Performance: Monday, July 28, 2025
Tuition $525/Housing available for an additional fee
Vocal Apprentice by audition only
Email opera@sootheatre.org or visit Soo Opera for more information
OPERA ORCHESTRA CAMP
HANSEL & GRETEL by Engelbert Humperdinck
CAMP: Monday – Friday, July 21-25, 2025
10:30am-3:00pm
Performance: Saturday, July 26, 2025 – 7pm
Touring Performance: Monday, July 28
Additional evening rehearsals the week of camp
Additional lessons and/or rehearsals may also be scheduled ahead of camp
Tuition: $170/$185/$200
Students prepare with lessons ahead of this camp for this classic opera, sung by our opera apprentices. Apprentices come from all over the midwest and sing the lead roles in this opera while also preparing understudy parts or smaller roles in our mainstage opera. Open to strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion students. Experience the joy of opera!
CHAMBER MUSIC CAMP
Monday – Friday, July 28 – August 1, 2025
11am-3pm
Performance TBA
$150/$165/$180
This camp is open to strings, woodwinds, and brass players and will feature guest faculty from the Soo Opera Orchestra. Students learn the fundamentals of playing in small ensembles, are coached by professional musicians, and have opportunity to discuss all things chamber!
Students enrolled in this camp who do an exceptional job may be invited to play in Soo Opera’s Chamber Music Concert on Saturday, August 9th.
CLASSES
CANTUS CELLI
Tuesdays, 3:30-4:25pm
June 3, 10, 17, 24, July 1, 8, 15, 22
High School & Adult
$80/$95/$105
Open to all high school and adult cellists that would like to play in an ensemble together. Summer traditionally sports performances at the downtown Farmer’s Market and the Rudyard Summerfest.
NEW HORIZONS STRING ORCHESTRA
Tuesdays, 4:30-5:25pm
June 3, 10, 17, 24, July 1, 8, 15, 22
High School & Adult
$80/$95/$105
Open to all adult string players who want to play in an orchestra ensemble. Summer traditionally sports performances at the downtown Farmer’s Market and the Rudyard Summerfest
