2020 Summer Orchestra Intensive CANCELLED
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictive gathering guidelines, GIYO Camps scheduled for July 6-11, 2020 and July 27-31, 2020 have been cancelled. This difficult decision has been made with the safety and well-being of our students, faculty, and staff in mind. We take great pride in the camp programs built over the last 9 years and have enjoyed working with all the students who have participated. We are now planning appropriate opportunities for this summer and fall to help our students continue to learn and grow. We look forward to seeing all our students and supporters as soon as we can safely do so.
We are planning distance learning opportunities this summer and an alternative training program in the early fall to help our musicians continue to learn and enhance their skills. We are working with our instructors to provide, free of charge, group master classes and individual lessons online during camp week to help our students prepare for GIYO auditions, fall music, and All-State auditions.
Auditions for the GIYO Camp are
Thursday, June 25, 2020.
Students should contact Suzanne Morrison
for audition excerpts.
Suzanne Morrison, GIYO General Manager
Suzanne@GoldenIslesYouthOrchestra.org
(912) 996-5462
Highlights from previous summer camps.
Each summer members of the Golden Isles Youth Orchestra participate in a week-long intensive instructional program, held at the College of Coastal Georgia. Young musicians stay on campus in the residence hall and receive instruction from professional musicians drawn from all parts of the United States to begin their study of the music which will be played at the GIYO winter and spring concerts.
2019 JUNE CAMP –
The Future of the Golden Isles Youth Orchestra
At the 2019 June Camp, 64 musicians from four coastal Georgia counties, twelve schools (and three homeschoolers) and two states focused for a week on classical orchestral music, made new friends and had fun. At June Camp, beginning strings musicians (many from our STRING-on! weeks) got their first intensive strings experience and there we also trained some of our oldest high school musicians to teach beginning students. We welcomed back some of our alumni as teachers. And we worked hard with those musicians wanting to transition to our older orchestra as we re-stocked our mid-level Symphonette orchestra. June Camp closed, as usual, with a well-attended “Families and Friends” performance.
Please contact JoAnn Davis at JAD@GoldenIslesYouthOrchestra.org
for more information.
Beethoven Ensemble
Abigail Poirier conductor, Gabrielle Riddick and Zhane Waye,
GA Class of 2019 Aides
Conductor Courtney Chrestensen with the Mozart Ensemble
Our Camp Instructors
Among the instructors at this year’s June Camp were recent graduates (or one soon to be) of local colleges.
All of them have dual degrees in Performance and in Music Education.
Pictured above are (front) Edward Latimer, a JU graduate who is currently the conductor of the Jacksonville Civic Orchestra, (row 2, left) Whitt Locke, Georgia Southern graduate currently employed in the Muscogee County School District; (right) William Page, Georgia Southern graduate teaching this year at Richmond Hill Middle School in Bryan County; (back row – left) Ben Cork, fourth year music student at Georgia Southern; (right) Courtney Chrestensen, graduate of Jacksonville University who will teach at the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville in the fall. All of the above have dual degrees in Performance and in Music Education.
Thomas Trinh (GIYO alumni) - Berry College Adjunct and Columbus (GA) Symphony Manager with his Haydn Ensemble
