Canceled due to low participation.
Darlington’s Youth Orchestra Preparatory Camp focuses on audition repertoire and requirements for regional youth orchestras. Each youth orchestra has similar requirements and a special schedule will be developed to prepare participants for the specific youth orchestra they wish to pursue. While this is primarily an audition preparatory camp, we go far beyond positions and bowing techniques for excerpts and scales. From the principal to the last stand, sectional instruction will be in rotational format and focus on each person’s role for a successful sectional dynamic. To be a good leader, one must know how to follow. To follow with confidence, one must know how to lead.
William Camp is director of Darlington School’s instrumental music program and founder and director of the school’s Instrumental Music Conservatory. He is also founding conductor of the Rome Sinfonietta and orchestra chairman for the Georgia Music Educators’ Association, District 7. Camp holds a B.M. in Instrumental Performance from the University of West Georgia and an M.M. in Orchestral Conducting from Georgia State University. You may contact Will directly at wcamp@darlingtonschool.org.
Sinisa Ciric, violinist, is concertmaster of the Rome Symphony Orchestra, New Atlanta Philharmonic and Gwinnett Ballet Orchestra, and has performed as a soloist with various groups nationwide. During his career, he has collaborated with many national and international conductors, and is a founding member of Balkan Quartet with whom he regularly performs across the United States. Ciric received his undergraduate degree from the University of Novi Sad Academy of Arts (Yugoslavia) and master’s from University of Georgia, where he is currently pursuing his DMA degree in violin and viola. He currently serves as Artist Affiliate at Emory University, where he teaches violin, viola and chamber music.
Lori Gomez is the principal violist of the Rome Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with Cheyenne Symphony, the Ft. Collins Symphony and the Greeley Philharmonic. As a member of the Quartz Quartet, formed out of London, she has also performed in Germany, France, England, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Colombia. Gomez holds a B.M. from SUNY Potsdam’s (N.Y.) Crane School of Music, an M.M. in Viola Performance and Music Theory from Colorado State University, and has completed coursework for a Ph.D. in Music Theory from the University of Connecticut.
Annie Camp, cellist, teaches at Darlington School and Lee University (Tenn.), and has active studios in Tennessee and Georgia. She played with the Alabama Symphony for seven years and has performed with the Atlanta Symphony, Greenville Symphony, Atlanta Opera, Atlanta Lyric Opera and Atlanta Ballet, Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra, Charleston Symphony Orchestra and Carrollton Symphony Orchestra. Camp also served as principal cellist of Queens Philharmonic and has performed with several quartets and trios around the country. She holds a B.M. and an M.M. from The Juilliard School of Music. While there, she performed two solo recitals at Lincoln Center.
Emmy Hengeveld is the principal bassist for the Rome Symphony Orchestra and has been active in numerous Shorter College opera and musical productions. She has also played with the Georgia Philharmonic, the Trio da Roma, the Bennett Jackson Trio and the Rome Sinfonietta. Hengeveld is the bassist for Snead State College Theatre Group and is an active member of the Jacksonville State University Faculty Trio. A member of the American String Teachers Association, she performs and teaches throughout the Southeast.
