Registration is now closed for 2024 - see you in 2025!
*early drop-off at 8:30am and late pick-up until 5:30pm are available
Summer Music Camp is generously supported by the Webber Family Foundation, H-E-B, and the City of Austin.
Explore and Create
No prior experience playing an instrument is required.
Level Up and Lead
Students with 1 - 6 or more years of playing experience
on an orchestra or band instrument.
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.
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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.
Breakfast and lunch is provided at no extra charge to all campers.
TUITION
$380 per student
Optional $100 fee for late pick-up between 3:30pm 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
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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 4,200 students at nearly 40 schools in grades K-12 throughout the greater Austin area. Last year alone, we worked with 1,100 students through 30+ school programs, partnerships, and camps. Our Summer Music Camp launched in 2018 as an orchestra camp and we are so excited to expand our camp for all ages and experience 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
Hear from us when Summer Music Camp 2025 announcements are published later this fall.
