Alpharetta Student Chosen For Summer Arts Program

Staff Report

Sarah Clements of Alpharetta has been accepted to attend Interlochen Arts Camp, the world’s premier summer arts program for aspiring artists in grades 3 through 12.  

Sarah, the daughter of Ralph and Krisitne Clements, will be participating in the Vocal Artist Program. Selection for this highly competitive program is based on audition.

Sarah is a rising junior at Cambridge High School where she sings with the advanced women’s chorus, under the direction of Dominque Petite. She has also performed with the Georgia Music Educators Association All State Chorus, the American Choral Directors Association National Honor Choir and the Spivey Hall Honor Choir. 

Sarah sings with the Roswell Presbyterian Church choir and also serves as president of the youth choir. Sarah is a student of Dian Lawler-Johnson of Roswell.

Interlochen Arts Camp attracts students from all 50 U.S. states and more than 40 countries. Each summer 3,000 artists fill Interlochen’s north woods 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. 

During the six week program, Sarah will receive intensive training in music theory and history, voice diction, stage movement and opera performance. She will also perform as a member of the World Youth Honor Choir. Interlochen instructors include college and university faculty with extensive teaching and professional performance experience.

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. 

Recent guest artists have included Joshua Bell, Josh Groban, the Decemberists, the Avett Brothers, Olga Kern, Harry Connick Jr., Trace Adkins, Branford Marsalis, Darius Ricker, Jackson Browne, Five for Fighting, Steely Dan and many more.