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The OHIO Summer Music Academy Band Camp is an immersive experience designed for intermediate to advanced high school brass, woodwind, and percussion students who, with our distinguished faculty and guest clinicians, want to enhance their musicianship, develop their performance skills, and collaborate with high school musicians from the region and beyond.  Daily classes include both large and chamber ensemble sessions and master classes as well as seminars on various topics such as music theory, rock composition and electronics, instrument repair and maintenance, acoustics, improvisation, and music leadership with members of the Ģ����Ƶ University Marching 110.

All brass, percussion, and woodwind students rehearse and perform with the wind ensemble. This group also performs with the Athens Communiversity Band as part of the “Under the Elms” concert series - an outdoor summer concert series that has been an Athens tradition for more than 70 years!

Participants will perform in a culminating finale concert on Saturday with the Summer Music Academy Wind Ensemble.

Ģ����Ƶ University’s Contemporary Music and Digital Instruments program offers an opportunity for students to combine popular music and technology to create their own musical works. Composition and performance is taught through hands-on experiences with a wide range of digital instruments including loopers, MIDI controllers, digital audio workstations, beat making software, and synthesizers. Students benefit from individual and group instruction, as well as seminars that explore a wide variety of musical styles.

CDMI participants create, rehearse, and perform in ensembles along with participants in other instrumental streams. The size and makeup of these ensembles is determined each year based on CDMI academy participants, and the groups perform at a concert at the conclusion of the academy.

String players rehearse and perform with an orchestral chamber ensemble as well as smaller chamber groups while being coached by Ģ����Ƶ University faculty. The experience culminates in a public performance on Saturday. 

The OHIO Summer Music Academy Piano program provides students with the opportunity to study piano in a stimulating and nurturing learning environment under the guidance of our distinguished artist faculty and guests. The program also provides participants with both individual and group instruction, supervised practice time, master classes, ensemble study, performance opportunities, and seminars on a variety of topics (i.e. jazz piano, organ, practice strategies, careers in music, etc.).

In addition to solo work, students have the opportunity to participate in various chamber ensembles (piano duet, piano string quartet, etc.) determined each year based on Music Academy participants.

Piano academy participants perform in a finale concert on Saturday.

High school students interested in voice performance work directly with our distinguished vocal music faculty and guests to build their voices and develop their singing techniques.  Vocal music students will explore choral music, contemporary a capella music, vocal music recording, and live stage performance in addition to explorations of composition, music theory, and studies of extraordinary vocal performers.

Vocalists rehearse and perform with a vocal ensemble. The size, makeup, and repertoire of the ensemble is determined each year based on vocal academy participants, and the group performs at a concert at the conclusion of the academy.