Summer Handbell Camp 2025
Workshop for Musicians Who Love to Ring!
Monday, July 28 to Thursday, July 31, 2025
St. John’s Lutheran Church
20275 Davidson Road, Brookfield, WI 53045
Summer Handbell Camp is a 4-day workshop focused on handbell technique and musicianship. Daily rehearsals and individual practice emphasize hands-on learning and group performance. Selections will range in difficulty from Level 2+ to Level 4+ of both sacred and secular music for use throughout the year. Clinician Sandra Eithun will direct the mass choirs in a fast-paced group setting to make this workshop enjoyable for musicians interested in improving their handbell performance.
There will be a concert on Thursday, July 31 at 7:00 pm featuring the handbell selections from the workshop. All are welcome!
Space is Limited * * * Deadline to register is July 1, 2025. No refunds given after this date.
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: $300.00 per person
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DISCOUNT $275.00 per person with non-refundable deposit of $75.00 by May 15, 2025.
- 10-12 pieces of handbell music from a variety of composers and publishers
- Morning and afternoon healthy snacks
- Lunch
- Dinner Thursday prior to the concert
- Summer Handbell Camp T-Shirt
- Reading Session of New Handbell Music
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Discount on music purchased from workshop and reading session titles
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3 or 4 daily rehearsals (approximately 1-1/2 hours in length)
Sandra Eithun
Workshop Clinician
SANDRA EITHUN, M.M.Ed – is a graduate of Silver Lake College in Manitowoc, WI, with an emphasis in the Kodály teaching method, keyboard, and flute. She is currently on the faculty at Holy Family Conservatory of Music in Manitowoc, WI, leading the handbell program there. She served as Director of Music Ministry, handbell director, children’s choir director, organist and choral accompanist at First Congregational United Church of Christ in New London, WI, from 1992-2021. She directed the Silver Lake College Handbell Ensemble from 2009-2020, is an active member of the Handbell Musicians of America and has served on their Area VII Board of Directors. She has been commissioned to write music for many events and for numerous individual handbell ensembles. Most recently, she received the honor of being given the esteemed Donald E. Allured Original Composition Award for the 2020 Week of Handbells in Bay View, MI.
She has over 650 pieces for handbells in publication as well as several sacred keyboard books and teaching collections for the incorporation of handbells in the music classroom. In 2013, Sandra had the honor of working alongside Doc Severinsen and the Fox Valley Symphony to include handbells in his holiday show, Jingle Bell Doc, at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center in Appleton, WI. Sandra’s compositions have been recently featured on the PBS Christmas special, Holiday Handbells, as well as concerts by noted groups across the country including The Raliegh Ringers and The Bells on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. She continues to work as a handbell clinician and conductor at numerous festivals and workshops throughout the United States. She is married to Scott, has four grown children and currently resides in Appleton, WI,
