Border Music Camp to welcome more than 100 students after two lost years due to COVID-19

Border Music Camp will be staged for the 46^th time from Sunday, September 25, to Saturday, October 1, with students from as far as the Sunshine Coast and Adelaide to combine with a host of Victorian and NSW orchestral musicians at The Scots School Albury.

Among them will be Albury siblings and Murray Conservatorium students Esther, 16, and Joash, 14, Little, who play French horn and saxophone. They are excited to attend the camp for a fourth time.

Esther has played the French horn the past four-and-a-half years and hopes to pick up some new knowledge of the instrument.

"I first tried the French horn when I was seven at a kids music class and I really liked it. I really liked the sound of it," she said.

"I like the camp because you can meet new people and play music you might not necessarily play otherwise.

"I mostly play classical. It's more of an enjoyment thing for me."

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As the youngest of five children, Joash said he chose the saxophone because none of his four brothers and sisters played it.

"It's not the hardest to play, but it is fun," he said.

"It's not a really weird instrument that nobody has a use for."

Student administrator Margie Gleeson confirmed there was 139 registrations aged as young as 10 through to 81.

"This is the 46^th camp, it's been going since 1974 and we missed two years," she said.

"We're going to have a big 50^th anniversary in a couple of years time.

"You get a variety of kids with students from state schools, Catholic schools, private schools and kids getting home schooled and they all fit together."

Two public concert nights will be held as part of the camp with tickets available through trybooking.com.

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