The Port Angeles Symphony’s Summer Strings Camp for young musicians was recently awarded a $4,000 grant from the Beta Nu chapter of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International.

The chapter, based in Sequim, makes grants to educators and nonprofit organizations that offer local programs.

This second annual camp will be held at NatureBridge at Olympic National Park’s Lake Crescent, to give students a chance to concentrate on developing their skills and on making music together, away from distractions at home.

Fifteen students — twice as many as last year — will participate in the strings intensive Aug. 11-15.

The camp culminates in two public concerts: one at the Lake Crescent Lodge on Aug. 15 and another at First Presbyterian Church, 139 W. Eighth St., Port Angeles, on Aug. 16. Both free performances will start at 7 p.m.

Monique Mead, an internationally known music educator and performer, will again lead the Summer Strings Camp along with ensemble conductor James Ray, the departing director of orchestras at Port Angeles High School.

Jesse Ahmann, a cellist from Port Angeles, will teach improvisation techniques and coach low strings. And two more alumnae of the school orchestras, Marley Cochran and Lauren Waldron, serve as mentors to the students at camp.

Cochran, 19, is a violinist studying at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma while Waldron, 20, is a violist on a music scholarship at the College of Idaho. Waldron was the winner of the Port Angeles Symphony’s Nico Snel Young Artist Competition in 2018.

For more information, call the Symphony office at 360-457-5579 or email to PASymphony@olypen.com.