SSA Summer Camp 2025

Hello SSA Camp Families! We will be moving to the beautiful Fortune Lake Lutheran Camp in Crystal Falls, Michigan. This will be an exciting new chapter for SSA, and we hope that you will be able to join us during this special transition year as our program grows!

 

Registrations are due by Wednesday, June 25, 2025.

Tuition is due by Monday, June 30, 2025

 

SSA Summer Music Camp is open to students who currently play violin, viola, cello, or bass. Camp Presto and Camp Vivace are sleep-away camp sessions for students in grades 6 - 8 and 9 - 12, and Chamber Music Day Camp is for students in grades 4 - 12.

 

Tuition payments:

We strongly prefer checks or money orders. If you are able, please mail a check or money order made out to 'Superior String Alliance' to our address at P.O. Box 52, Marquette, MI 49855. If you absolutely need to pay tuition via debit or credit card, you are able to pay online via our Paypal donation page. In order to offset Paypal fees, we request that you please add 2% of your tuition bill to your Paypal payment ($250+$5=$255, $680+$13.60=$693.60, $850+$17=$867). Please also send us an email letting us know that you paid online and the name of your child.

 

Scholarships:

  • Scholarships are need-based, please apply in the online registration form.
  • If you are applying for a scholarship, you will receive an email from SSA within a week after you register letting you know the scholarship amount we are able to give you.                 

 

2025 Summer Camp Documents:

2025 Camp Dates & Registration:

 

SSA CHAMBER MUSIC DAY CAMP

  • Dates: Monday, July 21 - Friday July 25, 2025
  • Times: 9am - 12pm every day, and 6:30pm concert on Friday, July 25
  • Where: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Marquette, Michigan
  • Participants: Students who will be in grades 4 - 12 in the fall of 2025 who already have experience playing violin, viola, cello, or bass.
  • Level: Beginner to advanced
  • Number of students: 12 - 20
  • Instruments: violin, viola, cello, and bass
  • Faculty: Dani Simandl (violin, viola), Ben Campbell (violin, viola), Adam Hall (cello), Harry South (bass).
  • Activities: Chamber groups (small groups without a conductor) organized by ability level, technique and musicianship workshops, chamber music masterclasses, final camper concert.
  • Overall characteristics: Helpful, challenging, encouraging, supportive, and sometimes a bit goofy.
  • Tuition: $250
  • 2025 SSA Summer Music Camp Handbook (PDF, 24 pages, required reading for parents and campers before registering for SSA Summer Camp)
  • SSA DAY CAMP REGISTRATION LINK (Expect a registration confirmation email and scholarship notification email within a week after you register.)

 

SSA CAMP VIVACE (high school sleep-away camp)

  • Dates: Monday August 4 - Friday August 8, 2025
  • Check-in: Monday, August 4, 1pm – 2pm CT (Crystal Falls is in the central time zone)
  • Check-out: Friday, August 8, 5pm CT
  • Where: Fortune Lake Lutheran Camp, Crystal Falls, MI
  • Participants: students who will be in grades 9 – 12 in the fall of 2025, and for graduating seniors in the class of 2025. Must have experience playing violin, viola, cello, or bass.
  • Level: Intermediate to advanced
  • Number of students: 25 - 40
  • Instruments: violin, viola, cello, and bass
  • Faculty: 15 - 25 professional string musicians
  • Activities: Orchestra, more orchestra, private lessons, chamber groups, improvisation workshops, bonfire, fun camp activities, final camper concert
  • Overall characteristics: Challenging, pushing students to do their best, intense, yet encouraging and very supportive, and often a bit goofy
  • Tuition: $850
  • 2025 SSA Summer Music Camp Handbook (PDF, 24 pages, required reading for parents and campers before registering for SSA Summer Camp)
  • SSA CAMP VIVACE REGISTRATION LINK (Expect a registration confirmation email and scholarship notification email within a week after you register.)

 

SSA CAMP PRESTO (middle school sleep-away camp)

  • Dates: Sunday August 10 - Wednesday August 13, 2025
  • Check-in: Sunday, August 10, 1pm – 2pm CT (Crystal Falls is in the central time zone)
  • Check-out: Wednesday, August 13, 5pm CT
  • Where: Fortune Lake Lutheran Camp, Crystal Falls, MI
  • Participants: Students who will be in grades 6 - 8 in the fall of 2025 who already have experience playing violin, viola, cello, or bass.
  • Level: Fundamental to intermediate
  • Number of students: 25 - 40
  • Instruments: violin, viola, cello, and bass
  • Faculty: 15 - 25 professional string musicians
  • Activities: Orchestra, more orchestra, private lessons, chamber groups, improvisation workshops, bonfire, fun camp activities, final camper concert
  • Overall characteristics: Challenging, pushing students to do their best, intense, yet encouraging and very supportive, and often a bit goofy
  • Tuition: $680
  • 2025 SSA Summer Music Camp Handbook (PDF, 24 pages, required reading for parents and campers before registering for SSA Summer Camp)
  • SSA CAMP PRESTO REGISTRATION LINK (Expect a registration confirmation email and scholarship notification email within a week after you register.)

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