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160 high school students expected to attend annual St. Olaf Music Camp June 17-24

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June 13, 2001

NORTHFIELD, Minn. ? Approximately 160 high school students are expected to attend the annual St. Olaf Music Camp Sunday, June 17, through Sunday, June 24, featuring a week of rehearsals, classes, lessons and performances led by internationally acclaimed St. Olaf College music faculty members.

High school students who have completed grades 9, 10, 11 or 12 may register for the camp with the endorsements of their music teachers.

The camp offers an exciting and demanding program of studies in a variety of musical disciplines. St. Olaf faculty members will instruct campers in harp, music history, composition, select choirs, handbells, musical theater, jazz improvisation and instrumental chamber music.

Students at the performance-based camp will participate in one large band, choir or orchestra ensemble and are encouraged to join a second large ensemble. In addition, they will participate in classes and will receive individual lessons from faculty members. St. Olaf Orchestra conductor Steven Amundson, Norseman Band and Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble conductor Paul Niemisto, and Manitou Singers conductor Sigrid Johnson will direct the large ensembles.

Family members, friends and the public are invited to attend several free, public recitals during the camp. Monday and Tuesday, June 18 and 19, will feature performances by faculty and counselors. Thursday and Friday, June 21 and 22, will feature student solo and chamber ensembles performing at 7 p.m. in Urness Recital Hall, Christiansen Hall of Music. On Saturday, June 23, Musical Theatre and the Select Choir will perform at 3:30 p.m., also in Urness Recital Hall.

On Sunday, June 24, a chapel service at 9:30 a.m. in Boe Memorial Chapel will feature the handbell choirs, brass ensembles and Select Choir.

The week will conclude with a free, public performance of the band, choir and orchestra at 12:30 p.m. Sunday in Skoglund Center Auditorium. Those who want more information about this and other St. Olaf camps may view the St. Olaf summer conferences website at www.stolaf.edu/services/conferences.

St. Olaf College prepares students to become responsible citizens of the world, fostering development of mind, body and spirit. A four-year, coeducational liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), St. Olaf has a student enrollment of 2,950 and a full-time faculty complement of approximately 300. It is one of Money Guide?s top 100 "elite values in college education today," and it leads the nation?s colleges in percentage of students who study abroad.

Contact Michael Cooper at 507-786-3315 or cooperm@stolaf.edu.