Morag’s summer cello camps are where music meets creativity, community, and a whole lot of fun. These lively, immersive, hands-on camps for all ages and stages are the perfect place to develop your skills, try new ideas, and connect with fellow cellists in an inspiring, energizing space. Whether you’re here to build confidence, explore your technique, enrich your sound, or just dive into a magical music week — you’re in the right place!
Cello camps
WITH
Morag Northey
July & August 2025
CELEBRATING OUR 21ST YEAR!
I am blessed to offer these camps and always impressed with the connection gained with our instruments, ourselves and each other.
Working with peer groups (whether through age, stage or instrument) is irreplaceably powerful. The focused time we get together in the studio, nature or on the playground, enlivens our willingness to take new things on, to explore and deepen our practice. The lively conversations and games during snack and lunch times encourage our sense of belonging – we relate to one another and become a pretty neat ensemble!
Wonderkids and Jedi camps include mini solo lessons, music/sight-reading, cello chamber, masterclasses, piano accompaniment and an end of the week showcase.
Adult camps include a vibrant, multifaceted ensemble program. We will learn together and perform for friends at week’s end AND, of course, there is always the special evening social time!
Please share if you need accommodation during your choices as I do have space – details we can work out together.
I welcome you to my studio and am excited to work with you this summer!
Wonder Kids
Cello Camp
June 30 – July 4
WONDERKIDS young/junior cello camp
Ages: 5 – 12
Limit: 8 – 10 cellists
Cost: $500
Daily: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Recital: July 4, 2:30 – 4:00 pm
This camp is designed for beginning through junior level cellists who wish to be part of a wonderful immersion into all that is cello. Each day they will experience solo lessons, technique, masterclass, and chamber music and will have two opportunities to work with our collaborative pianist Mary Buckley. They will also enjoy creative play and unstructured time at one of three nearby parks.
Adult Ensemble
Cello Camp
and/or July 7 – 11
ADULT ENSEMBLE CAMP
Ages: 17 & up
Cost: $250
Daily: 6:30 – 9 pm
Recital: July 4 / July 11 7:30 – 8:30 pm
Adult cello camps offer an information-rich, supportive environment to develop your skills through a variety of chamber music — tailored to both the individual and the ensemble.
Held in the evenings from 6:30 to 9, it’s a week of music, learning, and great company! Choose between two weeks, or join us for both!
Jedi Cello Camp
JEDI JUNIOR / INTERMEDIATE CELLO Camp
Limit: 8 cellists
Cost: $500
Daily: 9 am – 5 pm
Recital: July 11 3:30 – 5 pm
For junior to intermediate-level players ready to push their skills and prepare new repertoire through private lessons, chamber music, technique and master classes. Each student will have two sessions with our collaborative pianist Mary Buckley towards a final performance. Other offerings: expressive storytelling through sound, performance psychology, and time in nature.
It’s a full musical adventure, balanced with daily park visits, games, stretching, performance psychology, and quiet nature time to recharge. A rewarding blend of serious study and thoughtful downtime.
Personal Intensives
or11-15or 18-22
PERSONAL INTENSIVES
Dates: August 4-8, 11-15 and 18-22
Daily Session times – sign up for either: 10 – 12 am, 1 – 3 pm or 4 – 6 pm. First come, first serve. Please do not mix times.
Cost: $600 *Note – these camps offer a special 40% discount on regular lesson rates.
Calling all cellists! Ready for a serious leap in your playing? Morag’s Personal Intensive is a deep-dive, one-on-one cello experience like no other. A five-day intensive to focus entirely on your dream cello project. Two hours a day of private lesson time will take your playing to the next level.
Whether you’re prepping for a big performance, a recording, or the fall performance program, this is your chance to reset, recharge, and re-ignite your playing. Spots are limited!
About Mary Buckley
MARY BUCKLEY – PIANO ACCOMPANIST
Mary was an elementary classroom teacher and music specialist for more than thirty years. Accompanying has also been an important part of her musical activities. She directed and accompanied her own elementary school choirs throughout her teaching career.
At present she is the accompanist for the choir at St Gerard’s Catholic Church, and has accompanied for Mount Royal Kantorei since 2013. Mary enjoys the opportunity to enrich her musical experiences through learning new and challenging music with Mount Royal Kantorei.
Morag is one of the most passionate, unique, sensitive and expressive musicians I have ever encountered in all my years. I came to her to study the cello and my eyes were opened up to new worlds of possibilities in music practice and performance born first from inner peace. When you hear her cello voice, you will be truly touched.”
– Bruce Hildesheim, B. Mus., Juilliard School
“Morag is an inspiration! Her ability to motivate and encourage students is so refreshing. One can really tell that she loves the children and has a real passion for what she does. We love to sit in her studio and observe her working her magic with other students when we get to lessons early. We enjoy it so much that we have often said that we could be flies on her wall all day listening to all the wisdom and teaching that she has to impart! We look forward to lessons every week and it is a reprieve at the end of a long week!”
– Melissa Chung
Interview with student Laurie Stalker
Interview with Isaac & Amanda Woollends