»Camps & Festivals
High school students can come to Chapman to experience college-level performance and learning opportunities throughout the year. Whether it's a festival for strings, double reeds, choirs, or honor bands, or summer camps for voice and instrumental musicians, you can learn from our renowned music faculty and other working music professionals to develop your music skills and make new friends.
Instrumental Music Camp
Chapman University’s Instrumental Music Camp welcomes woodwind, brass and percussion
students on-campus for small ensembles and a final performance in Salmon Recital Hall.
Vocal Music Camp
Chapman University’s week-long Vocal Music Camp features mixed choir, treble choir
and lower-voice choir as well as small ensembles in which students explore making
music with new friends.
Honor Band Festival
Led by Southern California’s preeminent wind and brass faculty, this half-day intensive
offers high school musicians pre-professional training workshops, Q&A with Chapman
students, and special guest speakers are also featured.
The Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music at Chapman University is delighted to welcome
select high school and college orchestra students from throughout California to the
Chapman Orchestra Festival, directed by Chapman’s Director of Orchestral Studies, Danko Druško.
Choral Festivals
For over 50 years, Chapman University has hosted high school and college choirs from
across Southern California, allowing students the opportunity to be adjudicated by
world-class clinicians and choral educators.