TLU - Texas Lutheran University

All faculty and housing directors will be Texas certified educators and/or professors from premiere universities and colleges. All faculty are selected based on outstanding performance professionally and their personal commitment to the Texas Lutheran University Summer Music Academy philosophy. Activity leaders are college students hand-selected to assist with SMA.

All performances are open to the public. Professionally made compact disc recordings will be available for purchase at the time of the performances.

Students will be housed in separate residence halls based on age and gender, two students per room.

Activities may include swimming, socials, tournaments, casino night, movies, recreational sports, recitals, Schlitterbahn, etc. All activities will be supervised by professional camp personnel.

A student's performance depends on many things, among them, challenging instruction, highly qualified and supportive faculty, a camp culture that builds community, accessible facilities, and opportunities to grow in every dimension. At the Texas Lutheran Summer Music Academy, students will find the ideal conjunction of all these factors and more. The camp is conveniently contained within the borders and safety of the TLU campus. Seguin is located 35 miles northeast of downtown San Antonio and 50 miles south of Austin. It is easily accessible from any direction via major thoroughfares.

Designed to provide an encouraging, supportive learning environment with appropriate challenges for students with at least one year of formal school instruction and entering grades 6-8.

Electives will be offered in a variety of interesting and applicable areas including jazz band, choir, leadership skills, conducting, music composition, chamber music, music theory, rhythmic studies, music history, jazz history, improvisation, double reed making, marching fundamentals, drum majoring, and world percussion.*

*Electives subject to change.

Electives subject to change.

Electives subject to change.

A limited number of scholarships are available based on individual student achievement through the TMEA district, region, area, and all-state process. Requests for scholarships must be made by June 1. Students should send an email to Beth Bronk at the SMA email address, sma@tlu.edu, briefly outlining their accomplishments and requesting consideration for a scholarship. You will be informed by return email of any scholarship awarded. If you are registering online prior to requesting scholarship, please pay only the deposit, and pay the balance due by check after notification of your scholarship.

New in 2012: The Patricia and Roy Norton Memorial SMA Scholarship is a new scholarship dedicated to the memory of Patricia and Roy Norton, who both dedicated their lives to teaching music. Roy ran the Summer Music Academy for many years when he served as the Director of Bands for Texas Lutheran, and Pat taught at the Summer Music Academy for more than 35 years. Roy was a fine clarinetist and Pat was a wonderful oboist. To continue to remember and honor Pat and Roy Norton, this scholarship will benefit one high school clarinet player and one high school oboe player each year. Applicants should demonstrate the following qualities: high achievement on clarinet or oboe, dedication to their high school band program, leadership in action, and intention to pursue a degree in music education. Applicants should email Beth Bronk at the SMA email address, sma@tlu.edu, outlining the ways in which they demonstrate the qualities that were so important to the Nortons. A letter of recommendation from the applicant's high school band director is also requested. Both the email and the letter of recommendation should be submitted by June 1. Applicants will be informed by email of any scholarship awarded. If you are registering online prior to requesting scholarship, please pay only the deposit, and pay the balance due by check after notification of your scholarship.