Mary Jo Leahey Symphonic Band Camp

Welcome to the UMass Lowell -
Mary Jo Leahey Symphonic Band Camp!

Applications are accepted through July 1. Camp dates are July 15-21, 2012.

Our Founding Visionary Mary Jo passed away in November 2011.  A great spirit with a kind soul and generous heart, Mary Jo has been an inspiration to the thousands of students who have passed through the program. We shall miss her enthusiasm, her great love of music and of children.

Please Join us at the Finale Concert featuring a World Premiere of the newest composition "Sounds of Courage"  by Robert W. Smith, dedicated in memoriam to Mary Jo Leahey

Saturday July 21, 2012
Durgin Concert Hall, South Campus, at 12 p.m.
Reception Following

For the 16th year, the Department of Music at UMass Lowell is offering a camp for talented students who have a passion for music. In 2012, it will be held from July 15 through July 21.

Please go to the application page to download and mail in your application.

Thank you for joining us for the 2009 world premiere of
“Reminiscent Rhapsody” at the Mary Jo Leahey ’37
Symphonic Band Camp Finale Concert!

James Hosay, international wind-band composer and decorated veteran (staff arranger for Pershing’s Own), was the special guest conductor at the 2009 Mary Jo Leahey Symphonic Band Camp concert. Commissioned to write a work for the ensemble by Executive Director/Conductor Deb Huber, Hosay wrote the Gershwin-styled original composition “Reminiscent Rhapsody” and conducted the world premiere at the concert.  

 

Mary Jo Leahey Symphonic Band Camp
applications are accepted until July 1, 2012.

This one-week, intensive band camp is for students who have completed the eighth grade, but have not yet entered college. All students have an opportunity to audition for scholarships. At the camp, students will improve their individual skills and broaden their own musical experience in a shared environment of teamwork and learning.

For the low price of $465 and a registration fee of $85, students receive:

• Tuition, food and housing
• Locker for instrument
• 24 hour security
• Access to pool
• Camp t-shirt
• And a lifetime of memories...

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Activities:

• Several concerts featuring guest performers.
• Master class clinics by professional musicians.
• Various camp ensembles in performance.
• Volleyball, cookouts, and swimming.
• The Grand Finale Concert!!!
  

Ensembles & Classes are Selected from the following:

• Concert Band
• Conducting
• Mixed Chamber Ensemble (Trios, Quartets and Quintets)
• Jazz Bands (small jazz, big band, jazz ensemble)
• History of Rock & Roll
• Brass Choir, Flute Choir, Clarinet Choir, French Horn Choir
• Intro to Percussion (for non-percussionists)
• Percussion Ensemble
• Honor's Wind Ensemble
• Score analysis (learn to read and analyze music scores)
• Contemporary Horns for Everyone (Jazz, Funk, Fusion, Bop~sounds of EWF, Chicago, Tower of Power, Blood, Sweat & Tears
• An Introduction to Sound Recording Technology
• Arranging with Computers (using Finale)
• Introduction to Guitar (guitars supplied, may bring your own)
• Colors of Sound (ear training & sound identification)

University of Massachusetts Lowell
Symphonic Band Camp
Debra-Nicole Huber, Executive Director

FUTURE CAMP DATES:

2013    July 14-20

2014    July 13-19

2015   July

New England Youth Wind Ensemble (NEYWE)  concert May 2012

New England Junior Wind Ensemble     concert May 2012