(NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ) -- The New Jersey Youth Chorus (NJYC) will hold a Choir Camp for young singers entering grades 3-4, July 15-19, 2024, on the NJYC campus located at 570 Central Avenue in New Providence. No audition is required to attend the camp.
Said NJYC Founder and Director Trish Joyce, “Our Choir Camp offers budding young singers an exciting introduction to the choral experience through music, games, and fun activities. With an engaging new theme each day, our campers will learn and explore this summer through song!”
Choir Camp meets daily from 9:30am-12:30pm Students have the option to add lunch bunch and after care to their camp day. The early registration discount ends April 1, 2024. For more information or registration assistance, call (973) 998-5670 or email info@njyc.org.
Wharton Arts’ mission is to offer accessible, high quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. Their vision is for a transformative performing arts education in an inclusive community to be accessible for everyone.
Wharton Arts is New Jersey’s largest independent non-profit community performing arts education center serving over 2,000 students through a range of classes and ensembles. The 5 ensembles of the New Jersey Youth Chorus, an auditioned choral ensemble program for students in grades 3–12, encourage a love and appreciation of choral music while nurturing personal growth and creative development. The 15 ensembles of the New Jersey Youth Symphony, which serve nearly 600 students in grades 3–12 by audition, inspire young people to achieve musical excellence through high-level ensemble training and performance opportunities. Based in Paterson, the Paterson Music Project is an El Sistema-inspired program of Wharton Arts that uses music education as a vehicle for social action by empowering and inspiring young people to achieve their full potential through the community experience of ensemble learning and playing. From Pathways classes for young children to Lifelong Learning programs for adults, the Wharton Performing Arts School has a robust musical theater and drama program and offers both private and group classes for instruments and voice for all ages and all abilities. With the belief in the positive and unifying influence of music and that performing arts education should be accessible to all people regardless of their ability to pay, Wharton Arts offers need-based scholarships.
Wharton Arts is located in Berkeley Heights, New Providence, and Paterson, NJ and reaches students from 12 counties. All of Wharton Arts’ extraordinary teaching artists, faculty members, and conductors hold degrees in their teaching specialty and have been vetted and trained to enable our students to achieve their personal best.
