Iowa Summer Music Camps

Our jazz camp gives students opportunities to interact and perform with professional jazz musicians throughout a week of music-making in small group/combo settings. Areas of study will include jazz improvisation, jazz theory, basic arranging skills, and the art of jazz listening.

Designed for intermediate through advanced high school students with a maximum number of 12 flute players. This camp includes master classes, group warm-up sessions, flute ensemble, and student concert!

Students enrolled in this camp will improve their overall playing on trumpet. The camp will include warm-up sessions, group lessons, one-on-one lessons, technique work, presentations on related topics, ensembles, and student and faculty recitals.

Organ Camp is open to keyboardists with or without prior organ experience. Campers will receive daily organ lessons with UI faculty, learn about organ literature, music theory, and the fundamentals of organ building.

Students enrolled in this camp will improve their overall playing on oboe. The camp will include warm-up sessions, group lessons, one-on-one lessons, technique work, presentations on related topics, reed making and preparation, double reed ensembles, and student and faculty recitals.

Students enrolled in this summer camp will improve their overall clarinet playing. This intense but fun camp will include warm up sessions, group lessons, one-on-one lessons, basic /intermediate/advanced technique, clinics about clarinet related subjects, clarinet choir rehearsals, small clarinet ensembles, equipment, reed preparation, and students/faculty concerts.

Students enrolled in this camp will improve their overall playing on bassoon. The camp will include warm-up sessions, group lessons, one-on-one lessons, technique work, presentations on related topics, reed making and preparation, double reed ensembles, and student and faculty recitals.

Designed for intermediate through advanced high school students with a maximum number of 12 saxophonists. This camp includes master classes, group warm-up sessions, reed classes, quartet coaching, student concert, and saxophone ensemble! This course is geared toward students who plan to pursue a college degree in saxophone performance or music education.

Students enrolled in the Iowa Summer Horn Camp will improve their performance skills and their knowledge about the horn (French horn). This intense but fun camp will include daily large group sessions including: morning warm-ups, breathing class to encourage efficient sound production, technique class to develop embouchure and improve left hand/tongue coordination, ear training to isolate and improve accuracy on and off the horn, repertoire class where students will be introduced to appropriate horn etudes & solo repertoire, performance anxiety to introduce several strategies for managing stage fright, and equipment, maintenance & repair.

Students enrolled in this camp will improve their overall playing on euphonium or tuba. The camp will include warm-up sessions, group lessons, one-on-one lessons, technique work, presentations on related topics, ensembles, and student and faculty recitals.

Immerse yourself in five days of interactive clinics, masterclasses, and rehearsals led by internationally-recognized performers and educators. Sessions will focus on a range of percussion disciplines such as snare drum, mallets, concert percussion, improvisation, multi-percussion, world percussion, and steel band.

Campers will be exposed to a wide variety of piano-related topics in a focused, serious, but non-competitive atmosphere. They will receive daily piano lessons with UI faculty.

This 5-day vocal workshop is designed for talented, striving, and enthusiastic high school students who have a strong passion for musical theatre and song literature, and who have a desire to prepare for college auditions.