2023 Winter Recitals

Alex Stanton • October 23, 2023

Sign ups are now open for Sunburst's 2023 Winter recitals!

Our recitals will take place in 16 sessions over the course of two weekends in December. Sessions are about 45 minutes long and have 10–15 performers. Each teacher is assigned to 1–2 sessions. If the sessions assigned to your teacher don't work for you, get in touch with us here, you can still perform in another session or we may add sessions as needed.

Students are welcome to perform anything they like, and can play solo, with their instructor, with a friend or family member, or to a backing track, anything goes! Talk to your instructor about how you'd like to perform. Friends and family members are welcome to attend, we ask students to try to keep it to no more than 4 additional guests.

On Friday, December 8th from 7–9pm, we're hosting our Adults Only session! For these we just do one long session with as many performers as we have. We'll have a number of instructors on hand helping with sound, stage, etc. but not all of our instructors can be there. Adult students are also welcome to perform in any of the other sessions if they'd like to make sure their instructor is there to see or perform with them. The adult session is BYOB.

Our recitals are free for students and guests but we also collect optional donation for the Sunburst Music Scholarship Fund, you can donate on site, or select the donation option when signing up.

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