Thomas Horn Studio

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. Hopefully UT will return to holding band camp, but for now it's on hiatus.

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. Camp is currently on hiatus.

YOSA Summer Band Camp

Ages 13-18 by audition, held 9-3 at Trinity Baptist Church in San Antonio.

TCU Band Camp (Commuters)

High School June 8-12, 2025;  Middle School June 13-14, 2025

Austin Horn Camp (commuter only) Walsh MS, Round Rock

MS TBD; HS TBD

SASI HS Leadership camp, various times and campuses

Baylor Band Camp  Waco, TX

High School June 8-14, 2025

Middle School June 15-21, 2025    

Stephen F Austin Band Camp Nacogdoches, TX

Middle School June 8-13, 2025

High School June 15-20, 2025

Texas A&M Commerce Band Camp  Commerce, TX

Blast of Brass June 22-27, 2025

Texas State Band Camps San Marcos, TX 

HS/ MS June 8-13,  2025

Texas Tech Band Camp Lubbock, TX

HS/MS June 29- July 5,2025

University of Houston Cougar Band Camp Houston, TX

MS (Commuters) July 7-10, 2025

HS June 23-27, 2025 (boarding)

UT Arlington Summer Concert Band Camp

June 8-12, 2025 Commuter or boarding

UTSA Summer Band Institute San Antonio, TX

June 16-21, 2025. Commuter or boarding.

NATIONAL CAMPS

Interlochen National Music Camp, outside Traverse City, Michigan (I attended this as a teen.)

High School Horn Intensive June 14-20, 2025

High School Orchestra and Wind Ensemble Six weeks, June 22- August 3, 2025 ($$)

Middle School Orchestra & Wind Ensemble Grades 6-8; 3-week sessions: June 22 to July 12, 2025; July 13 to August 3, 2025

Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Twin Lakes, Michigan (I also attended this camp as a teen.)

12-day sessions throughout summer in 2025 from June 25- August 17. For Grades 7-9 and 9-12. Also provides adult camp opportunities.

Kendall Betts Horn Camp  White Mountain School, New Hampshire

Young adult players to adult professionals, June 7-14 and/or June 15-22, 2025

Other references can be found on Band Directors Talk Shop