Dates: July 7-11
Times: 9:00-4:00
Ages: Rising 8th – 12th Grade; Minimum 3 year playing experience or Director Recommendation
Tuition: $425
Wind Ensemble Camp allows for students with a minimum of three years of band experience to expand their individual and ensemble skills. This camp is open to students who play flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto/tenor/bari sax, trumpet, French horn, trombone, baritone/euphonium, tuba, and percussion. Each instrument will be grouped with a sectional coach, who will provide them with instrument-specific knowledge to improve their musicianship. Students will perform at least one sectional piece and three full-band pieces in a performance on the final afternoon of the camp.
Equipment: For woodwind and brass players, students will need to provide their own instruments. If they do not have their own instrument, then Mr. Cashin can be contacted for details about acquiring an instrument for the week. For percussionists, students may provide their own sticks and mallets but are not required to do so.
Instructors:
Director/Percussion Instructor: Mark Cashin is the Band and Percussion Director at Cardinal Gibbons. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music Performance and Master of Arts in Teaching from The University of North-Carolina at Chapel Hill. At Gibbons, Mr. Cashin teaches the Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Advanced Percussion, Percussion Ensemble and AP Music Theory classes, in addition to Drum Line, Jazz and Songwriting Club. This is the sixth year he has hosted summer camps at Cardinal Gibbons, and his focus is to foster a life-long love of music appreciation, performance, and advocacy in his students.
Flute Instructor: Mrs. Lauren Robbins-Pollock, Flute Instructor of the Cary School of Music (Cary)
Clarinet Instructor: Mr. Jacobi Davis, Director of the St. Mary Magdalene Band (Apex)
Saxophone Instructor: Mr. Isaiah Jackson, Director of the JW Parker Band (Rocky Mount)
Trumpet/Horn Instructor: Mr. Dustin Wallace, Director of the East Lincoln HS Band (Denver, NC)
Trombone/Euphonium/Tuba Instructor: Mr. Aaron Brown, Gibbons’ Choir Director and Co-Band Director
Additional Questions: Contact Mr. Cashin at markcashin@cghsnc.org