Music & Art Camps
In Port Townsend, WA
Summer camps take place outdoors in beautiful Port Townsend, Washington, where students ages 4-14 can experience music and art surrounded by nature.
Throughout two weeks of summer programming, students can explore a variety of music and arts disciplines, with an emphasis on the development of individual artistry and the creation of art and music through collaborative processes.
Students develop technical skills in visual and textile arts such as painting, drawing, sculpting, bookmaking, and printmaking; and develop musicality through the study of introductory band and orchestra instruments; collaborative music making using piano, voice, ukulele; and an exploration of singing, movement, and performance through the study of musical theater.
Winter break camps also take place for one week each in December, with a focus on exploring winter traditions through music and art.
Camps are taught by mother-daughter music and arts educators and longtime Port Townsend residents, Jenny and Sophie Pipia, who are dedicated to bringing joy and inspiration to young learners through the arts.
About Us
Jennifer Pipia
Sophie is a classically trained pianist, sousaphonist, accordionist and music educator based in Los Angeles. She got her start as a music teacher at a central Oregon elementary school where she taught kindergarten through 5th grade music classes and led a tuition-free after-school music program, providing instrumental lessons to students in kindergarten through 8th grade. While there, she also co-founded the Madras Children’s Choir, giving students in under-resourced schools opportunities to learn choral repertoire, develop vocal technique, and perform in their community.
Since then, Sophie has worked with the San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit, Music for Minor, where she taught kindergarten through 5th grade classes in the San Mateo/Foster City Unified School District, the San José Unified School District, and the Castro Valley Unified School District. Sophie currently lives in Los Angeles, where teaches private piano lessons, as well as elementary school music classes in the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Lawndale Elementary School District through the nonprofit, P.S. ARTS.
Sophie received a Grand Diplôme in Pastry Arts with highest honors at the International Culinary Center in 2018, and went on to study music, psychology, and Spanish at Laney College in Oakland, where she graduated with Associate Degrees with highest honors in all three areas. She graduated magna cum laude from UCLA, completing a major in music education; minor in film, television, and digital media; and a K-12 California single-subject teaching credential in music.
She currently teaches TK-5th grade general music and violin classes in the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District, in addition to piano lessons through her private studio.
Sophie is passionate about inspiring students to develop a lifelong love of learning and is dedicated to promoting equity and opportunity in music and the arts at the elementary level, where she is committed to providing students from every background and economic situation with an excellent musical foundation.
Jennifer has been teaching piano in Port Townsend for 30 years. She has enriched the lives of hundreds of students through music, and has helped her students go on to become successful professional musicians, music educators and music therapists. She is currently the Minister of Music at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, where she is the organist and choir director and has led summer music programming and children’s choirs for the last 25 years. She holds a Bachelors of Music in Music Education with a primary concentration on piano and a secondary concentration on voice, and has played the clarinet throughout middle school, high school, college and beyond.
In addition to her work as a musician, Jenny has worked with children in a number of different capacities; she taught children’s gymnastics classes in Los Angeles for several years, and went on to open her own gymnastics school in Beverly Hills in 1986, and later, Johann Sebastian Book, a children’s music and bookstore. These experiences have shaped her music education philosophy which weaves together music, literacy, and movement. She believes that students learn best while having fun, and that all children have the right to a high quality education in music, and ensures that students receive a well-rounded music education while exploring their own unique interests in the art.
Sophie Pipia
