INTERLOCHEN, Michigan >> Julianne Carter, 12 of Hidden Valley Lake, has been accepted and will attend Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan this summer. Interlochen boasts the world’s premier summer arts program for aspiring artists grades three through 12. Carter, who underwent a difficult and competitive audition in San Francisco, has been selected to study violin at the camp.
Carter takes violin lessons from Jennifer Cho, a Julliard graduate and first violinist with the San Francisco Opera. Julianne auditioned for and was accepted as a student with Cho last year.
“Julianne is a lovely and talented young musician with great focus and determination,” Cho said. “It is a joy to work with such a student.”
In addition to violin, Carter plays and teaches piano. She plays viola and writes her own musical compositions. Carter is a member of three orchestras: The Napa Valley Youth Symphony, the Santa Rosa Repertory Orchestra and the Lake County Youth Orchestra.
Carter will be traveling to Europe next year to go on tour with the Napa Valley Youth Orchestra, where she is a first violin. The group will perform in York, Dublin, Edinburgh, London and other venues during their tour.
Anyone interested in seeing this young artist perform locally can attend the Lake County Youth Orchestra’s concert at the Soper Reese Theater on June 7 at 3 p.m. Admission is only $5 and Julianne will be performing two solos during this concert, including the Bach Minuet, which helped gain her admission to Interlochen.
Interlochen Arts Camp attracts students, faculty and staff from all 50 U.S. states and more than 40 countries. These 2,500 artists fill Interlochen’s northwoods campus with an explosion of creativity. Student-artists learn from world-class instructors and produce hundreds of presentations each summer in dance, theater, creative writing, visual arts, music and film.
“My teachers at Interlochen are the best in the world,” Carter said. “We worked very hard each and every day and I learned so much. I made friends from so many different places all over the world and learned so much about music from others who share my passion.”
Among the distinguished Camp alumni are Norah Jones, singer Josh Groban, members of the band OK Go, Rufus Wainwright, opera and concert soprano Jessye Norman, conductor Loren Maazel, jazz pianist Eldar, actor Anthony Rapp, cartoonist Cathy Guisewite and many more. Approximately ten percent of the nation’s professional orchestra musicians have roots at Interlochen and the alumni community has been awarded nearly 100 Grammy Awards.
In addition to hundreds of performances, presentations and readings by young artists, Interlochen brings leading artists and performers to the northern Michigan campus. Julianne saw Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne perform on campus last summer at Interlochen.
