Youth Music Camps Offer Diverse Learning, Performance Opportunities

Champaign - Like the swallows that migrate annually to a certain mission in California, flocks of budding young music-makers are once again congregating on the University of Illinois campus.

They, too, have a mission: to become better musicians through their participation in the Illinois Summer Youth Music camps.

This year’s first session, which began June 14, runs through June 20. Subsequent sessions are scheduled June 21-27 and July 5-11.

The camps, which have been offered at the U. of I. every year since 1949, attract more than a thousand middle and high school students each summer. Most students are from Illinois, but some have attended from as far away as Australia and Indonesia.

As ISYM celebrates its 60th anniversary year in 2009, the program’s alumni ranks have swelled to more than 60,000.

For more, visit http://news.illinois.edu/news/09/0619isym.html

Source: U of I News Bureau (www.news.illinois.edu)
Melissa Mitchell, Arts Editor