News release Public Information Office   SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu Spring 2004 news releases Public Information home News archive Contact: Christina Chapple Date: 5/15/05   Click on image for publication quality photo  YOUNG MUSICIANS  -- Young musicians such as Southeastern Louisiana University Community Music School students Alexa LeSaicherre and Tim Long are invited to participate in CMS’s Southeastern Music Festival, scheduled on weekdays July 5-15 at the university’s Pottle Music Building. The camp is open to ages 8-17 and offers instruction on all orchestral and band instruments, piano, all styles of guitar, and in voice. For information, call 985-549-5502 or visit www.selu.edu/smf. REGISTRATION UNDERWAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL, JULY 5-15          HAMMOND – Registration is underway for the Southeastern Music Festival, a revitalized version of Southeastern Louisiana University’s popular “Young Musicians Camp.”         The festival, scheduled for weekdays July 5-15 at the university’s Ralph R. Pottle Music Building, is open to students ages 8-17 (third grade through high school), said festival Director Patrick Tuck.          Tuck said SMF will build on the Young Musicians Camp’s more than a decade of success by expanding instruction on all orchestral and band instruments, piano, all styles of guitar, and in voice.          “Participants receive private lessons, large ensemble experience, concerts, master classes, chamber music studies, and music rudiment and theory classes all provided in a supportive and encouraging environment,” Tuck said.         Kenneth Boulton, director of Southeastern’s Community Music School, the festival’s sponsor, said that each of the six areas of instruction will have its own coordinator and schedule of activities, which will run concurrently in the morning.          “It will be like having six camps in one,” Boulton said. “In the afternoon, we will become one big camp. Students will receive theory and other academic music instruction, participate in the festival choir, and enjoy recreation activities such as swimming and basketball.”         SMF also offers evening recitals at the end of each day. “These programs feature individual participants and SMF chamber ensembles,” said Tuck. “ Performers audition daily to be included on the evening recital program. The festival culminates in a gala concert, featuring the SMF Concert Band and the SMF Choir along with SMF chamber ensembles and individual participants.         Southeastern faculty will serve as area coordinators, including Tuck, who will head the festival’s music theory area. Coordinators are Richard Schwartz, SMF Concert Band, band instrument area; Yakov Voldman, SMF Chamber Orchestra, orchestral instrument area; Raisa Voldman, piano area; Patrick Kerber, guitar area. An alumnus, Amy Prats, choral director at Ponchatoula High School, will head the voice area and the SMF Chamber Choir.         Cost of the camp is $300 per student. A $75 non-refundable deposit is due with registration materials on June 17, with the $225 balance due on the first day of camp. A $25 late fee will be assessed after the deadline.          The fee covers tuition, t-shirts, recreation, daily lunch and dinner, liability insurance, and campus health services. Families enrolling more than one child in the all-day session will receive a $50 discount per student on the registration fee.          Students can also choose to participate in morning sessions only, 8 a.m.-noon. The cost for the morning-only session is $150 with a $40 non-refundable deposit.          The SMF registration forms and additional information are available online at www.selu.edu/smf. Forms can also be obtained by calling the Community Music School, 985-549-5502 or by emailing Tuck at patrick.tuck@selu.edu.          For information about additional summer camps at Southeastern, visit www.selu.edu/summercamps.