Madeline Island Music Camp
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Madeline Island Music Camp, established in 1985, is one of many summer music camps in the United States for pre-college and college aged music students. As the name suggests, it is held on Madeline Island, the largest of Wisconsin's Apostle Islands, an island known for moody summer temperatures ranging from the cool fifties to the warm 80's with sticky humidity. The camp, which places its emphasis on playing in chamber music ensembles, is split up into two separate programs. For 28 days in June and July, an average of 50 string and piano students aged 12 to 24 infiltrate the music camp facilities as well as the town, La Pointe, barely a five minutes walk away, for intensive musical training in their assigned string quartet or piano ensemble literature. After the string and piano students leave, Woodwind and Horn college students inhabit the camp for a week of training in wind ensembles.
The camp, while giving students the opportunity to build upon their music making abilities through intensive training and practice hours, also plays host to a variety of excellent faculty members, who all teach, coach, and interact with the music camp students. In the 2006 season, the students of the Piano and String program worked for a week each with the Ames Piano Quartet, the Pacifica Quartet, the Shanghai String Quartet, and the Arianna String Quartet.
