2025 Dates
NEMC Core Session:
Saturday, June 28, 2025 - Sunday, July 27, 2025
NEMC Intensives:
Chamber Music, Composition, Jazz, Musical Theater
Monday, July 28, 2025 - Monday, August 11, 2025
Johnny Mercer Songwriting Intensive
Monday, August 4, 2025 - Monday, August 11, 2025
NEMC Prelude:
Monday, July 28, 2025 - Monday, August 11, 2025
Summer 2025 Tuition Rates
Financial Aid and Scholarship Available: NEMC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational institution that is committed to keeping costs as low as possible without diminishing the quality or depth of programming. Families should not be discouraged from applying to NEMC due to financial limitations. For more information on our Financial Aid and Scholarship page.
*Please note that a variety of discounts are offered. Please see breakdown below.
NEMC Core Session: $6600
NEMC Intensives:
Chamber Music Intensive: $3600
Composition Intensive: $4000*
* Program is $3600. Recording Fee is additional $400.
Jazz Intensive: $3600
Musical Theater Intensive: $3600-4000*
* Program is $3500. Prescreen package is additional $400.
NEMC Prelude Strings & Band Camp: $3300
Combo Six-Week Session: $9200
Registration Opens October 1, 2024!
Space is limited so register early!
Discounts:
- Combo (Core + Intensive or Prelude sessions) Discount: $1000
- Sibling Discount: 10% off NEMC Session
- Referral Program: $100 tuition credit for each registered referral
- Music Educator Discount: 10% off
Counselors:
Our counseling staff is led by Head Counselors and Assistant Head Counselors. We carefully select our counseling staff of 20 college students for their interest in and ability to lead young people. The counselors live in the cabins with campers, coach recreational activities, and organize all social events. A counselor’s primary role is to support and encourage each camper. They are responsible for creating and maintaining a nurturing, comfortable environment in which campers can grow and make lasting friendships.
Cabins:
Campers at NEMC live with counselors and are housed by age. The “Girls End” of camp includes two younger cabins, Towne Cabin and Wade Cabin, located adjacent to The Girls Dorm (Girls Up-dorm and Boys Down-Dorm). The “Boys End” housing is located at the opposite end of camp and includes Dorr Cabin, Sault Cabin, and the Boys Dorm (Boys Up-Dorm and Boys Down-Dorm). NEMC also offers Gender-Expansive Housing for students who do not identify in the binary.
Dining:
At NEMC we eat family style in the Lodge dining room. Healthy meals are prepared in our kitchen by Sterling and Ramone who are assisted by a select dining staff. Meals always include a vegetarian option and we are able to accommodate peanut and other such allergies. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs.
Afternoon Recreation:
NEMC’s recreational complex boasts three tennis courts, a soccer field, two softball diamonds, volleyball and badminton courts, archery range, and basketball court. Aerobics, dramatics, and physical fitness are other recreational options. Highly qualified lifeguards and water safety instructors coordinate lessons and recreational swimming. We also offer instruction in sailing and canoeing for beginning through advanced levels.
Social Activities:
A camp council elected by campers design the social activities for the following year. We are always updating and improving our offerings. Programs vary throughout each month. These events are designed opportunities for campers to make new friends. Activities include carnivals, talent shows, cabin song competitions, dances, games, ice cream parties, and more. Campers enjoy frequent cookouts, barbecues, and picnics. Campfires at the edge of the lake where they sing songs together, tell stories, and watch gorgeous sunsets as darkness falls. Some evenings are devoted to jazz participation and others to dramatic presentations by campers. Optional activities include hanging out at the canteen or playing board games.
Music Program
Instrumentalists and vocalists at New England Music Camp spend their mornings in four one-hour periods of music taught by a prestigious faculty of professional performers and educators from universities, colleges, and highly recognized public and private school music programs. A 4:1 faculty to student ratio provides an environment rich in sharing and learning. Students and their teachers at home often remark that “one summer of music at NEMC is like a year at home”!
Campers at New England Music Camp design their own schedules, choosing from a wide range of classes. The weekly schedule includes two one half-hour private lessons, with the option to add additional lesson time, and participation in one or more of the major performing groups. Public performances take place on Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm at our outdoor amphitheater, the Bowl-in-the-Pines.
NEMC Employment
Snow Pond Center for the Arts is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Snow Pond Center for the Arts makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
Faculty
Faculty members at New England Music Camp are carefully chosen for both their achievements as professional performers and their recognition for excellence in teaching. We live in a close knit community where we dine family style and many of our faculty enjoy joining the campers on the recreation fields.
Click on the appropriate department below to read faculty bios.
Music Lessons