ANDERSON — Mindy Galvin got a taste of stardom this week. And she liked it.

The 16-year-old from Englewood, Ohio, was one of 38 teenagers attending Anderson University’s first music business summer camp, which concludes Saturday.

As part of the five-day camp, participants worked with music industry professionals to put together a 14-track CD of songs they performed, helped edit and in some cases even wrote.

Galvin, who said she has long felt called by God to sing professionally, spent Friday afternoon at ProDigital SoundStudios, 931 Meridian St., fine tuning a song she composed last year, “I’m Your Little Girl.”

The professionals had suggested increasing the tempo and shortening the song Galvin performed for them at the start of the camp. The result made the soft-spoken teen sound more like superstar singer Kelly Clarkson.

“I’m really liking the way it’s turning out; it’s more my style,” Galvin said after finishing her recording session. “I’ve been performing in my room for three years. That was me just taking it to the next level.”

Once Galvin was done in the studio, she and another camper, Ben Sanborn, assisted while Joe Freeman mixed the recordings in another room.

Putting the last touches on a professional track would typically take days, said Freeman, who teaches sound editing at AU, but seven of the campers’ tracks were all recorded and finalized in one afternoon.

Charlie Peacock, the Grammy Award-winning producer who worked with the campers, said the students, while having a range of music experience, were all enthusiastic learners.

“It’s always fun to see people have their first experience in the studio,” he said.

AU and its student-run Orangehaus Music record label are already making plans for next summer’s music business camp. It’s scheduled for July 7-11, 2009, on the school’s campus, and Rebecca Chappell, who organized this year’s camp, said registration would begin in September.

For its second year, the camp will continue to give aspiring music professionals the chance to learn from real industry insiders, Chappell said.

“For the students to see the process and see professionals at work is just such an opportunity for them,” she said.

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