Registration is now open for 2024 - secure your spot now!
*early drop-off at 8:30am and late pick-up until 5:30pm are available
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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All payments are due no later than April 30th. Need-based tuition scholarships are available for those who qualify.
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
1-on-1 lessons, sectionals, and audition prep for Level Up and Lead students
Register now to secure a spot in Summer Music Camp. All payments are due no later than April 30th.
Need-based tuition scholarships are available for those who qualify.
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, Director
Venezuelan-Peruvian double bassist and conductor Erika Perera began studies with Mylene Zambrano in “Núcleo San Agustin” from El Sistema in Caracas-Venezuela. From 2017 to 2021, she was a double bass professor and music conductor of "Nucleo Enel" and Music conductor in The Children Symphony Orchestra by Sinfonía por el Perú. Erika is part of the String Project Faculty at the University of Texas at Austin and the orchestra director for Austin Soundwaves. Erika Perera received her bachelor’s degree at the Venezuelan National University of Arts (UNEARTE) and an artist diploma at the University of Texas of Austin.
Christina Cuellar
Christina Cuellar was born in San Antonio and grew up in Mexico. She was a Flautist in the Mexican National Youth Orchestra, Tamaulipas Mexico Tour 2004. Christina was a finalist in the Universidad Autonoma Nacional de Mexico international Flute competition in 2004 and second chair of the Wind Symphonic Band from the state of Zacatecas in Mexico. In 2008 she moved to Texas and immersed herself in Caribbean and Latin dance music. Christina can frequently be heard performing with Rey Arteaga / son y no son, Nossas Novas, and Grammy-nominee Paula Maya. Christina has been with Austin Soundwaves since 2019 and is the lead woodwind teaching artist.
Dr. Frank Jenkins
Cellist and arts administrator Dr. Frank Jenkins serves as our program director at Austin Soundwaves and director of the Summer Music Camp. Frank studied at Northwestern University and The University of Texas at Austin and is also a tenured section cellist with the Austin Symphony.
Rohan Joshi
Rohan Joshi is a violist originally from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and currently resides in Austin, Texas. He is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland, where he served as a graduate assistant to Prof. Katherine Murdock. He has been twice awarded fellowships to the National Orchestral Institute (2018/2022) and was in residence at the Scotia Festival of Music as a founding member of the Hugo Quartet. Currently, Rohan is a section violist in the Central Texas Philharmonic and serves as the Austin Soundwaves lead high strings teaching artist.
Meredith McaLMON
Meredith McAlmon enjoyed a long and successful career as a middle school orchestra director in the Austin Independent School District. She joined Austin Soundwaves as an orchestra director and is currently our interim low strings teaching artist.
patrick Slevin
A graduate of Northwestern University and the El Sistema Fellows Program at New England Conservatory, Patrick Slevin serves as executive director at Austin Soundwaves. An active percussionist and teacher, Patrick performs with several central Texas orchestras and teaches several students within the Austin Soundwaves Private Lesson Program.
Mary Speight
Mary Speight is the education director at Austin Soundwaves, overseeing teaching and education initiatives for our 1,100-plus students across the greater Austin area. After earning degrees in music education from Appalachian State University and The University of Texas at Austin, Mary taught for several years in the Manor Independent School District as a middle school band director and stays active as a bassoonist in Austin.
Jorge Villalba
Jorge Villalba is a Venezuelan trombonist in Austin, TX, and started his musical training in the national music program from Venezuela, “El Sistema.” From 2017 to 2021, Jorge Villalba was appointed as music director in “Núcleo Miraflores” by Sinfonía por el Perú, an “El Sistema” inspired program led by Juan Diego Florez. Currently, Jorge is the lead brass teaching artist at Austin Soundwaves. Mr. Villalba holds a degree from Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela and is pursuing a Master of Music in Trombone Performance at Texas State University.
Luis Diaz
Dr. Hermes Camacho
Register today to secure your spot >>
Need-based tuition scholarships are available
Final payment due by April 30th
