SMI String Camp
“The camp helped me grow as a musician because it taught me that I have to play very well to truly contribute to the orchestra.”
June 15–21, 2008
Download a copy of the PDF Application form.
Come join us at the String Orchestra Camp to upgrade your skills and musical awareness in a positive, productive atmosphere!
All classes and orchestras will be conducted by string specialists. Daily activities include chamber music and string ensembles. Complementing the learning experience are lectures and demonstrations, master classes, technique classes and private lessons. The camp culminates with performances by the student participants in a finale camp concert.
Students will be placed in the various orchestras and chamber music ensembles based on their skill level and sightreading ability. Teachers are encouraged to contact Richard Webb for more information regarding admission and scholarship assistance.
Questions? Contact Richard Webb at (419) 636-4536 or email rwebb1@roadrunner.com.
Camp Schedule
The string orchestra camp schedule is available in PDF format.
Meet the Faculty
Richard Webb (camp director, conductor) holds degrees in viola performance from Bowling Green State University and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Bernard Linden, Nathan Gordon, Pamela Ryan and Masao Kawasaki. Webb has studied chamber music with the Bowling Green, Tokyo and LaSalle quartets. He has also appeared as a soloist with the Toledo Symphony and Lima Symphony orchestras. He is the former orchestra director for the Lima and Bryan City Schools, where his students consistently received “superior” ratings at state-level adjudicated events. In addition, Webb has been substitute member of the Toledo Symphony, and is a composer and author of several arrangements for middle and high school string and symphony orchestras. This fall, he will begin doctoral studies in music education on a fellowship at Northwestern University.
Vasile Beluska, violin professor.
Penny Thompson Kruse, violin professor.
Megan Fergusson, viola professor.
Alan Smith, cello professor.
Ed Zunic currently directs the Concert Orchestra at Upper Arlington High School, assists with the UAHS Symphony, teaches International Baccalaureate Music Classes at UAHS, teaches the cello/bass classes at Jones Middle School, and is the music department chair.
Zunic has bachelor’s and master’s of music degrees from Bowling Green State University. His teaching experience includes: Newark City Schools, Lima City Schools, Ector County Schools in Odessa, Texas, and Bowling Green City Schools.
Zunic is an active member of OMEA and ASTA. He has served as the Creative Events Chair and Orchestra Affairs Chair for OMEA. He has served as the OSTA Middle School Camp Director since 1996. His string orchestra arrangement of J. C. Moller's "Presto, from String Quartet No. 6" will be published by Latham Music in the spring of 2007.