Sabina Strings
Summer camps for string players
News for Summer 2023
We are happy to announce the return of residential String Camp at Santa Sabina Center this summer!
Sabina Strings provides an opportunity to gain ensemble experience and enjoy an intensive musical retreat in northern California
The camp was created especially for beginning and intermediate adult string players (violin, viola, and cello).
Sabina Strings is fortunate to be hosted by the Santa Sabina Center, which is sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael.
Santa Sabina Center is a beautiful and serene retreat in San Rafael with easy access to the freeway. It was built in 1939 and is complete with tudor-gothic architecture, an inner courtyard garden, a lovely chapel that seats 40-60, a conference room and multiple break-out spaces for quartets or individual practice, including a straw bale hut and a yurt. The center is all in one building with the bedrooms upstairs and all shared spaces downstairs around the courtyard.
Accommodation options include single or shared rooms, with bathrooms and showers down the hall, or campers may commute and include a meal package.
Please visit santasabinacenter.org for descriptions of the Santa Sabina Center.
We offer coaching in chamber music groups and larger ensembles, warm-up and winding-down sessions, rhythm and other classes, and a concert by visiting guest artists. Music is mailed out in advance.
Body Mapping and yoga will inform much of what we do, encouraging awareness of playing our instruments with freedom of movement, and learning how to deal with the excitements and stresses of performance in a supportive situation.
There is so much love and patience from the coaches at camp, and so many people to love and cheer on! During these difficult times around the world and here in the US, being together in a community of people who work together to create music collaboratively is inspiring and challenging and ultimately wonderful.
