Summer Music Camps in Kentucky

Stephen Collins Foster Summer Music Camps, Richmond KY:
Stephen Collins Foster Summer Music Camps provide musically-talented middle and high school students with the opportunity for outstanding musical and social experiences this summer. Located on campus at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond KY, our camps feature tuition in string instruments, piano, percussion, and vocal training.

This year, Stephen Collins Foster Summer Music Camps will be celebrating our 79th season in existence. Whether you are an instrumentalist, pianist, vocalist, or guitarist we promise that you will not go home without capturing some of the spirit that has sustained Foster for these many years!

Summer Music Camps:
For Middle & High School Students

- Middle School Vocal Camp 
- Middle School Band & Strings
- Piano Camp I (Grades 5-8)
- Piano Camp II (Grades 8-12)
- High School Vocal Camp
- High School Band & Strings (1-2 Week Options)
- World Percussion Workshop

Activities:
Afternoon activities are planned each day for campers. These include basketball, board games, indoor/outdoor games, kickball, movies, soccer, swimming, softball, tennis, video game tournaments...

"Foster helped build the foundation of my music education and I now have a full scholarship in music performance at U of L."
- Christian Kemker, Trumpet

"Foster Camp was definitely one of the best experiences of my high school years! It was a great chance to "attend" college, meet new people, and play fun music. It was an awesome, once in a lifetime chance that I would love to relive all over again!"
- Charla Helton, Clarinet

"I look back on my summers at the Stephen Foster Music Camp with great fondness. The instruction I received was excellent. Overall the camp was a wonderful experience and I would recommend the camp to anyone."
- Lyle Collins, Cello