MSYM 2025

Maine Summer Youth Music Program

Get ready for MSYM 2025!

This year’s camp will take place July of 2025, with Junior and Senior camps taking place concurrently. Registration will open soon! Stay tuned!

  

Immerse yourself in music this summer on the beautiful UMaine campus!

Maine Summer Youth Music Camp is gearing up to celebrate its fifty-second year of residential music camp excitement! A limited number of scholarships are available to qualifying applicants.

For more than half a century, MSYM has provided an immersive music experience for hundreds of young campers on the beautiful University of Maine campus, and we welcome you to join us this summer as we make beautiful music together once again.

Learn from professionals coming from both the UMaine community and from around the country,  all bringing a wide array of skills and experiences. Activities include performances by faculty, students and others as well as fun recreational activities!

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Junior Camp (Grades 5-8*) and Senior Camp (Grades 8-12*) will take place concurrently, with students in age group pods

(* – current grade as of Spring 2024; students in eighth grade may choose either camp)

Each day, MSYM begins at 8:00 am and ends at approximately 8:45 (for junior campers) or 9:15 pm (for senior campers). The day is divided into eight periods: four (4) before noon, three (3) after lunch, and one (1) after dinner, followed each night by an evening performance of some sort. MSYM is an ensemble-based camp and each ensemble rehearses two periods per day, which allows for students to be in multiple ensembles. Additional music classes are also offered during some of the periods. Here’s a sample schedule of what a day at MSYM might look like: Sample Schedule MSYM 2024

Final performances are all scheduled for July 19. They will take place as follows: 

  • Junior Camp Musical Theater and Jazz – 1 pm
  • Senior Camp Musical Theater and Jazz – 3 pm
  • Junior Camp Choir, Strings and Concert Band – 5 pm
  • Senior Camp Choir, Strings and Concert Band – 7 pm

 Contact Christopher White at cgwhite@maine.edu for more information.

Costs:

Resident Campers: $670

Commuters: $200
Commuter Meal Plan: $130

MSYM offers large and small ensembles and classes in music areas, including:

  • Jazz Ensemble
  • String Ensemble
  • Concert Band
  • Symphonic Band
  • Musical Theatre
  • Chorus

MSYM instructors are drawn from University of Maine faculty and staff, as well as from the wealth of respected musicians and teachers to be found all across Maine.

This year’s impressive list of talented MSYM instructors will be revealed soon! 

Are you a high school music, theater, or dance student?

Receive our “Guide to the University of Maine School of Performing Arts.”

We’ll include:

  • Receive a breakdown of our performing arts degrees so you can learn which is right for your career goals
  • Meet our faculty and their approach to making you as successful an artist as possible
  • Free ticket to a performance of your choice

Tell us about yourself to get started. We’ll see you on the other side!

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