Community Programs

The Department of Music at Sacramento State offers several programs for individuals to further their musical education, even if you are not enrolled in the university.

The CalCap Chamber Music Workshop, scheduled for July 20-25 and July 27-August 1 in 2008, will continue to cover standard and modern chamber music for 50-75 intermediate to advanced players on strings, woodwinds, horn and piano, high school age and up, and to cultivate an enthusiastic, supportive atmosphere.

The summer of 2005 saw Sacramento State hosting it's first annual Jazz Camp, featuring the Jim Widner Big Band with faculty who have played with Stan Kenton, Tito Puente, Doc Severinsen, Buddy Rich, Ray Charles, and many, many others. In 2008, this camp returns for its fourth year on July 6-11.

Each summer, Sacramento State hosts an annual Conducting Workshop. Founder Robert Halseth and an outstanding guest clinician work with high school and middle school band directors, grad students, college and community band conductors for five days, in front of "The Governor's Own" 59th Army National Guard Band.

Interested in taking private music lessons? You don't have to be enrolled in college to receive university level instruction. Check out the Community Music Division, and start furthering your skills on your instrument today!

If you have an elementary school age child who is interested in learning a string instrument, then the String Project is for you! Each semester, dozens of children receive instruction from university students majoring in music education. The program concludes with a public concert in which the kids show off what they've learned. This semester's final concert will be on Monday, December 17, 2007 at 7:00pm in the Music Recital Hall.