Fraser Street Sax Camp

Middle school group performing for parents on last day of camp

For some reason I thought it’d be a fun idea to run a saxophone camp. Indeed, it was a blast!

For a week in late June I had twenty-two middle and high school saxophonists for half days. We rehearsed in small and large groups, had special guests David Stambler (Penn State saxophone professor) and Dan Yoder (Stambler’s predecessor!), had a saxophone petting zoo provided by our local saxophone tech-extraordinaire, Jack Eggert; and performed for friends and family in the park across the street.

I shared the teaching duties with a few of my former students, all now in college: Ian Brannan (Penn State Music Ed.), Alex Rothstein (Lawrence Conservatory Bio/Jazz Studies dual degree), and Shane McCandless (U of Miami, Jazz Studies).

The camp was an outgrowth of my after-school saxophone ensemble, the Fraser Street Saxes.

As you can see from the pic above, we even got snazzy t-shirts!