TAP Camp is excited to expand offerings this year to incor­porate a Classical Guitar major. When we started TAP Camp in 2003, we offered Musical Theatre, Dance, and Acting majors with visual arts, tech­nical theatre and film­making as minors (or sec­ondary areas of study). The film­making and Technical Theatre sec­tions were so well received, we added them as majors. We hope to even­tually add a visual arts major as well.

Our big long-term dream is to offer a variety of majors incor­po­rating: theatre, music, film and arts. We wish to see the campus of St. Stephen’s com­pletely packed with artists off all kinds learning new things, building friend­ships with other campers from around the world and growing artis­ti­cally and per­sonally in ways they never thought they could.

This year, we are thrilled to offer clas­sical guitar as our next step to making our dream a reality. Classical Guitar is the first step in devel­oping a music program as part of Texas Arts Project. We hope to someday add sec­tions of rock band, pit orchestra, chamber music and much more. It will be nice to see the Guitar stu­dents find ways to enjoy and grow through their expe­rience with the estab­lished majors and vice versa.

This summer will be exciting, full of new adven­tures as we join with new artists and expand programming.