Our 23nd Season
The Madeline Island Music Camp was founded in 1985 as a one-week chamber music program for twenty students from Minnesota. Today the Music Camp conducts a four-week program for forty-eight talented string players and pianists who come from across the country and around the world to study chamber music with a distinguished faculty and resident string quartets. In addition the Music Camp conducts a one-week program for winds.
Initially the Music Camp took place in rented facilities on scattered sites on Madeline Island. Today, the Music Camp owns a 10-acre wooded site with solo and ensemble practice room buildings as well as three architecturally designed student lodges. The Mary Lange Music Center, with dining facilities, music library, administrative offices, student lounge, and fireplace, is within walking distance of the practice rooms and student lodges. A new practice wing was completed in 2006, enhancing practice and rehearsal schedules and a new student lodge opened in 2007 allowing the entire student body to be housed on one site for the first time .
Students and artist faculty perform each week at The Clubhouse located near the campus overlooking the lovely grounds of the golf course with spectacular views of Lake Superior and the Marina.
Madeline Island is located in northern Wisconsin on Lake Superior. The Island is 14 miles long and three miles wide, and is reached by a short ferry ride from the small town of Bayfield, Wisconsin.
The Island is home to approximately two hundred year-round residents and over two thousand summer residents. Its relative isolation, relaxed atmosphere and incredible natural beauty provide an inspirational environment conducive to the highest level of music accomplishment.
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A Note from the Music Director, Evelina Chao
After eight years as Director of Music for Students, I am honored to assume the position of Music Director, succeeding the late Vartan Manoogian. In keeping with his vision, spirit, and the foundations he helped build, the Madeline Island Music Camp will continue to provide the best chamber music education and finest artistic programming into the future.
Our 2008 season features exciting ventures both ongoing and new: the Pacifica Quartet will complete its performances of the Beethoven Quartet Cycle begun last summer, and the Arianna Quartet returns to offer its uniquely passionate rendering of core quartet repertoire. Joining us for the first time is the youthful Parker Quartet, lauded for its exploration of contemporary, unconventional programming, and the Fry Street Quartet, whose recent Haydn recording and dedication to reaching young audiences promises to lend fresh perspectives to the camp. Each quartet will also coach and teach. Of equal significance to our program is a distinguished artist faculty representing such schools as the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Manhattan School and Oberlin, among others. Artist faculty also perform to inspire by example and personify the joy of making music.
Students who are grouped into chamber ensembles by ability and age will receive ensemble coaching on a daily basis as well as private lessons and individual and duo chamber music lessons in preparation for weekly master classes and concerts attended by an enthusiastic and supportive public.
Madeline Island Music Camp's dedication to excellence in our faculty, program, and facilities attracts young talent from all over the nation and abroad. While the program is rigorous, our focus is on learning, exploration, fulfilling potential, and nurturing the young person as a whole. We are proud that at the end of camp, students leave not only experiencing the richness of learning and growing as musicians, but of making lifelong friendships as well. |
