SUMMER CAMP LINKS Click on the name of the camp to link directly to their web page.
Please consider the possibility of sending your horn player to camp in summer. We have a number of excellent options within the state of Texas as well as across the country. Let me know if you attended one you really enjoyed and I will add it.
Enrollment usually opens in January, and some fill up very fast. Some are overnight, and some have commuter options.
Longhorn Music Camp Austin, TX
In the 90's I was a camp counselor at this camp. I know all the directors that run it and have full faith in their interest to make it the best camp they can. Several excellent local band directors staff these leadership positions. I have sent my own children to this camp for several years, both as commuters and overnight. It fills up quickly. Note: 2021 is virtual
Middle School none 2021-22
High School
UTA Honors Horn Camp Arlington, TX
I had two students attend in the past, and this camp is fantastic, as it is geared specifically to the horn player. The high school kids receive All-State music by Wednesday of that week and get to work on it immediately with pros. Staffed by the Four Hornsmen quartet, including the horn professor of UT Arlington, Gerry Wood.
Anticipated MS/ HS July, 2023
TCU Band Camp (Commuter Only 2021)
High School June 14-17, 2021; Middle School June 18-19, 2021
Austin Horn Camp (commuter only) Walsh MS, Round Rock
2022 MS July 18-20; HS July 18-21
SASI HS Leadership camp, various times and campuses
Baylor Band Camp Waco, TX
High School June 2023
Middle School June 2023
Stephen F Austin Band Camp Nacogdoches, TX
Middle School June 2023
High School June 2023
Texas A&M Commerce Band Camp Commerce, TX
Blast of Brass June 2023
Texas State Band Camps San Marcos, TX
HS/ MS June 2023
Texas Tech Band Camp Lubbock, TX
HS/MS July 2023
University of Houston Cougar Band Camp Houston, TX
July 2023
UTSA Summer Band Institute San Antonio, TX
June 2023
NATIONAL CAMPS
Interlochen National Music Camp, outside Traverse City, Michigan (I attended this as a teen.)
High School Horn Institute June 20-26, 2022
High School Philharmonic Orchestra and Wind Symphony June 27- August 9, 2022
Middle School Wind Symphony and Symphony Orchestra Three-week sessions: June 27, 2022 to July 18; July 19, 2022 to August 9, 2022
Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Twin Lakes, Michigan (I also attended this camp as a teen.)
Camps for 2-week sessions throughout summer in 2021 from June 23- August 15.
Kendall Betts Horn Camp White Mountain School, New Hampshire
Young adult players to adult professionals, June 11-June 26, 2022
Other references can be found on Band Directors Talk Shop