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🎻 Week 1 at StringTime McLean! ☀️

Join us this Friday at 5:00 PM for our student concert and celebrate all that our campers have accomplished!👏

🎥 Can’t make it in person? The concert will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel StringTime and will also be posted on our website.

🎶 There’s still time to register for Week 2 at StringTime McLean. We’d love to see you there!
Register at www.stringtimemusic.org/registration

🎻 That’s a wrap on StringTime Alexandria! ☀️🎶
We had an amazing time making music, learning, and having fun together.
Missed Alexandria? You still have time to join us at StringTime McLean and StringTime Burke! 👏

🎻 Violin • Viola • Cello 🎵 Ages 7-12 ✨ No experience required, instruments provided!

🔗Register today at www.stringtimemusic.org/registration

Join us for our StringTime Student Concerts Fridays at 5:00 PM! 🎶

Come celebrate all the hard work our students have put in this week and enjoy an evening of music with family and friends.

Can’t make it in person? We’ve got you covered! Watch the concert live on our YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/StringTime?si=SnxgL0gizuuLRZ7C

We can’t wait to see you there! ☀️🎻

🎻 So far at StringTime Alexandria! ☀️
Join us on Friday at 5:00 PM for our StringTime concert! 🎶❣️

🏆 Can you help StringTime win Best Camp again? 🎻✨

We’re honored to be nominated for the 2026 Washington Parent Picks Awards, and we need your votes!

Vote for StringTime every day this month in:
🎨 Arts Camps
📍 Day Camps - DC
📍 Day Camps - VA

Simply enter your email address and cast your vote!

Thank you for supporting our mission of sharing the joy of music with young musicians. ♥️🎼🎶

https://picks.washingtonparent.com/camps-and-summer-programs

🎼 Today’s listening activity: Learning to Conduct with our Maestro, Mr. Kandybin! 👏 Our students had so much fun learning how conductors lead an ensemble and even got to try conducting themselves! 🎶✨kandybin

🗓️ Save the dates for the 2026 StringTime Student & Faculty Concerts!❤️

🎶 Join us as our StringTime students showcase everything they’ve learned in just one week of camp, including the world premieres of brand-new works by our Composer in Residence,

🎻 Our faculty will also perform a variety of exciting pieces to celebrate a week of music-making together.

📍 Alexandria: July 17 & July 24
📍 McLean: July 31 & August 7
📍 Burke: August 14 & August 21

👟 Dress is casual. Bring your family, friends, and neighbors. Kids are especially encouraged to attend!

✨ We can’t wait to celebrate with our StringTime community!

✨ Teacher Spotlight: Tatum Hodgson ✨

Meet Tatum Hodgson, an award-winning cellist and passionate educator dedicated to inspiring creativity, confidence, and a lifelong love of music.

🏆 Tatum is the 2025 ASTA Solo Strings Competition First Prize winner and has performed at prestigious festivals across the U.S. and abroad, including Aspen Music Festival and School and AIMS in Graz, Austria. She has performed with numerous orchestras and is committed to helping every student grow both as a musician and as a person.

🎓 Tatum recently earned her Master of Music in Cello Performance from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Cello Performance with a minor in Suzuki Pedagogy from the Cleveland Institute of Music.

We can’t wait for our students to learn from Tatum this summer! 🎻❤️