Registration opens in early January 2025. In the meantime, click on the button below to guarantee a spot for your camper and lock in Early Bird Pricing.
Questions? Feel free to send an email to info@austinsoundwaves.org.
Summer Music Camp is generously supported by the Webber Family Foundation, H-E-B, and the City of Austin.
Campers spend the week learning about music, singing, playing instruments, making instruments, crafts, games, and more. No prior experience playing an instrument or singing is required!
Geared toward 10-12 year old students who took beginning band and orchestra at school and/or with 6-12 months of instruction in a band or orchestra.
Students will be placed into chamber groups and symphony orchestra based on ability through a placement audition or assessment (recorded or in person). Geared toward students with experience playing in their school band or orchestra, youth orchestra, chamber music, and similar.
*early drop-off and late pick-up options are available
Registration opens in early January 2025. Click the button above to guarantee a spot for your camper and lock in Early Bird Pricing.
Our Summer Music Camps are intensive, fun-filled weeks of playing, creating, and learning. The full-day camp takes place for 5 weekdays, culminating in a performance party and presentation of projects on the final day.
Explore & Create campers (students without musical experience) will get to try many different instruments, build their own instruments, and fuel their creativity through music-based play, project-based learning, and plenty of summer camp fun.
Level Up and Lead campers (students who currently play a band or orchestra instrument) will have daily rehearsals focusing on diverse repertoire, explore improvisation and composition, and choose from electives such as conducting, recording, and marching band design. Level Up and Lead brings together students from band and orchestra worlds and provides elective opportunities that showcase numerous paths and possibilities inside of music.
We’ll hold one spot for your camper and guarantee early bird pricing until January 31, 2025.
Questions? Feel free to send an email to info@austinsoundwaves.org.
AGES
Explore and Create is geared toward students ages 7-11 with or without playing experience.
Level Up and Lead is geared toward band and orchestra students with 1-6 or more years of playing experience.
Send an email to info@austinsoundwaves.org with any questions about which track to select.
CAMP DAY
Activities take place between 9am and 3:30pm.
Early drop-off at 8:30am is included as part of tuition
Late pick-up from 3:30 to 5:30pm is available for an additional flat fee per camper.
TUITION
$385 per student
Optional $100 fee for late pick-up between 3:45pm and 5:30pm
Need-based tuition assistance is available for families that qualify
DAILY ACTIVITIES
Ensemble rehearsals and group classes
Daily lunchtime concerts by special guest artists
Team-building activities and games
Performance party and camp showcase
Improvisation and creative composition
Numerous electives to present at the camp showcase
Sectionals and audition prep for Level Up and Lead students
Reserve My Camper’s Spot now to and we’ll hold one spot for your camper and guarantee early bird pricing until January 31, 2025.
Austin Soundwaves is an arts education nonprofit that provides a variety of music programs throughout the community. We started in 2011 with 42 students at a single school and have since served more than 5,000 students at nearly 40 schools in grades K-12 throughout the greater Austin area. Last year alone, we worked with 1,400 students through 40+ school programs, partnerships, and camps. Our Summer Music Camp launched in 2018 as an orchestra camp but now offer programs for all ages and skill levels. Learn more about our amazing teachers and team here.
Erika Perera
Orchestra Director and Bass Teaching Artist
Christina Cuellar
General Music and Woodwinds Lead Teaching Artist
patrick Slevin
Executive Director at Austin Soundwaves
Explore and Create Coordinator
Rohan Joshi
High Strings Teaching Artist and Improv
Meredith McaLMON
Low Strings Teaching Artist
Mary Speight
Program Director at Austin Soundwaves
Summer Music Camp Director
Jorge Villalba
Low Brass Teaching Artist
Luis Diaz
Woodwinds Teaching Artist
Dr. Hermes Camacho
Deputy Director at Austin Soundwaves
Level Up and Lead Coordinator
Mika Syms
Cello Teaching Artist
Bethony Harnden
General Music and Explore and Create
Heather Busk
General Music and Explore and Create
Abi Bellorin
Strings Teaching Artist
Jason Lespron
General Music
Wesley Diaz
Strings
We’ll hold one spot for your camper and guarantee early bird pricing until January 31, 2025.
Questions? Feel free to send an email to info@austinsoundwaves.org.
