Third Annual Scranton Brass Seminar

June 17 - 28, 2013

Application deadline is Friday, May 24, 2013. Please contact us at music@scranton.edu to receive an electronic brochure and application materials in March. 

The Scranton Brass Seminar is an intensive non-curricular two week summer seminar focusing on various elements of brass playing. Application for enrollment is open to intermediate to advanced high school brass players, college and university brass players, and adult brass players and teachers. 

Activities include masterclasses, workshops, special topics presentations, solo & improvisation coaching, and small brass ensemble playing, as well as a final recital performance. Presenters/clinicians include experts in a variety of areas of brass playing, including not only nationally renowned brass players/teachers, but also conductors, accompanists, and physicians with special expertise in working with musicians. Previous years' seminars have included clinics and masterclasses by Mark Gould, Wycliffe Gordon, Marcus Printup, Chris Jaudes, Jennifer Krupa, Joseph Boga, Tim Smith, Rick Chamberlain, Christopher Newman, M.D., Bill Kenny, Steve Lakawicz, Jack White, Marilyn Deutsch, Mike Carton, and more.  

Music educators are also welcome and invited to enroll, in service of meeting their needs for continuing education and professional development in the areas of brass instruction and performance.

Participants in each year’s seminar are afforded special opportunities throughout the following academic year to observe rehearsals and participate in masterclasses by world class brass players who visit the university as guest artists with the Performance Music program here. (During the 2011-2012 academic year, students from the June 2012 brass seminar were invited to observe open rehearsals and attend masterclasses and clinics by The New York Trumpet Ensemble who were serving as artists-in-residence at the university, a "Breathing Gym Live!" event with Sam Pilafian, and more.)   

High school students must perform on a brass instrument at the level of a district band musician or above. Students who are majoring in music education or music at another college or university, or are high school students who have successfully participated in a PMEA Festival at the districts level or higher, will require no audition for enrollment. Students who do not meet those guidelines will need to have their private studio teacher or band director contact Cheryl Boga at (570) 941-7624 to discuss their suitability for enrollment and may be asked to play an informal audition.

PLEASE NOTE: High school students may only attend as commuters, as no supervised room and board options are offered as part of the seminar for those under college age.