Lessons and Camps

Many MBRSD Orchestra Students benefit from participating in private lessons, or attending a summer music camp. These are great opportunities to improve your musical skills. Check out this page for more information on summer music scholarships, private lessons, and summer music camps.

Private Lessons

Students can greatly improve their technique and proficiency on their stringed instrument through private lessons.   Lessons help students both develop their strengths and work on their weaknesses.  Lessons usually last either for 30, 45 or 60 minutes, and students progress through scales, études, pieces, and more.   Please consult the below list for an alphabetical listing of local stringed instrument private lesson teachers.

Professional Teachers in alphabetical order:

    Graybert Beacham, violin/viola  491-0999

    Jeanne Feder  violin  778-0518

    Leslle Geissinger   violin  897-4281

    Amy LeBlanc  violin, viola, cello and bass    778-2685   amy@whitehillfarm.com

Plus apprentice teacher:

        Hope Chernesky - Current HS Senior (2022) offering lessons in beginning to intermediate guitar, intermediate violin and fiddle and beginning music theory and music reading.

            Contact Hope Chernesky, text 207-860-8058 or email hope.chernesky@gmail.com

You can also find a list of private teachers for other instruments by clicking on this link.

Maine Summer Music Camps

There are several great choices for summer music camps, and we are very fortunate that Maine has such quality and diverse offerings.   You may find that several of the below music camps offer scholarship programs.   Combining a camp scholarship with a Mt. Blue Music Booster scholarship and make music camp surprisingly affordable.    Maine music camps offer great opportunities, each in unique beautiful settings with swimming, and more.  Please click on the names of each camp to link to the camp's own website.

Camps:

Maine Fiddle Camp, Montville, Maine

    Mr. Muise teaches at this camp.   There are several sessions of camp from June to August.  This camp specializes in fiddle music and specializes in teaching fiddle music by rote (by ear).

Southern Maine String Camp, Winthrop, Maine

    This camp reinforces string playing through participation in orchestras and chamber music.

Camp Encore-Coda, Sweden, Maine

    This camp has a variety of musical offerings.

New England Music Camp, Sidney, Maine

    This camp has a variety of musical offerings.

MSYM, Maine Summer Youth Music Camp, Orono, Maine @ UMO

    This camp has a variety of musical offerings.

There is also a new camp that Mr. Muise where Mr. Muise will teach in 2020, it's not a summer camp.

It's on a weekend in April.   It's called Fiddleicious Traditions (clickable link)

There are many others too!