For the 22nd year, the Department of Music at UMass Lowell is offering a residential camp for talented instrumental music students who have a passion for music!
The Mary Jo Leahey Symphonic Band Camp is a one week long, residential, immersion into music, held Sunday to Saturday: July 15-21, 2018. Our FINALE CONCERT is Noon on July 21, at Durgin Concert Hall.
Please go to the Symphonic Band Camp Website to enroll for 2019 after August 1, or to see details.
Student instrumentalists who play Flute, Piccolo, Oboe, Electric Bass, Guitar, Bassoon, French Horn, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Saxophone, Euphonium, Trombone, Trumpet, Tuba, Upright Bass, Piano, and Percussion are welcome to participate. At the camp, students will improve their individual skills and broaden their own musical experience in a shared environment of teamwork and learning. With more than 35 faculty and staff, instructors from UMass Lowell and throughout New England, our program is for those who love making music and discovering this with high schoolers just like you!
The camp offers an immersion into music. Students have classes from which to choose as well as large ensembles that comprise all band camp participants. All perform in the Finale Concert at the conclusion of camp. Finale Concert: Saturday July 21, 2018 at Noon in Durgin Concert Hall, South Campus. A brief reception will follow
Students who have completed grade 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 by June may enroll.
Applications are accepted through June 1 (130 students only) . Enrollment is open until the camp fills. To secure a spot:
Register Online!
UMass Lowell Department of Music Symphonic Band Camp 35 Wilder St. Lowell, MA 01854 Email: Debra-Nicole Huber, Executive Director 978-934-4133
2017's Premiere by Frank Ticheli, "Arcadiana", was co-commissioned by NEYWE Artistic Director Deb Huber, along with Lew Buckley of the Metropolitan Wind Symphony and MIT's Concert Band conductor, Tom Reynolds.
2016's World Premiere by James Hosay, "Old North Bridge, A Symphonic March", with choir, was commissioned work by Executive Director Deb Huber to celebrate the 20th Band Camp. It was premiered with the composer conducting, at the Symphonic Band Camp Finale Concert
2012 world premiere of "Earhart; Sounds of Courage" at the Mary Jo Leahey ’37 Symphonic Band Camp Finale Concert!
In 2012 our finale concert featured the world premiere of the commissioned composition "Earhart: Sounds of Courage" by Robert W. Smith, dedicated in memoriam to Mary Jo Leahey. Mr. Smith joined us for an unforgettable rehearsal and truly inspired us all to "paint the sky orange." Students were thrilled to learn from this master educator whose compositions are well known in the wind band world.
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.
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Robert W. Smith joined Conductor and Executive Director Debra-Nicole Huber and Conductor Daniel P. Lutz during the 2012 band camp Huber premiered the commissioned composition Earhart: Sounds of Courage, written by Robert W. Smith.
The Camp's founding visionary, Mary Jo Leahey, was a truly unique individual, one who inspired many, and who has left a legacy that will touch so many more in the future. Those of us who had the honor and pleasure of meeting her could think of no better way to celebrate her life, though, than with music. We endeavor to continue to honor her legacy.
Mary Jo Leahey 1916-2011
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