Bands

Michigan Tech University offers three opportunities for a band experience, Visual and Performing Arts Campus Concert Band, Huskies Pep Band, and Superior Wind Symphony.

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Superior Wind Symphony

Register for: MUS3510
Audition Required

A world of music and innovation in the Keweenaw Peninsula. The Superior Wind Symphony is the premier wind ensemble at Michigan Tech. Superior Winds concerts offer symphonic thrills, innovative programming, fruitful collaborations, and exciting premieres. These concerts feature music from the standard repertoire and often utilize innovative formats that include visual art, the spoken word, and dance. The ensemble makes its home in the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts, a hall acclaimed nationally for its acoustics and beauty. The ensemble undertakes concert tours on behalf of the university throughout the Great Lakes region.

Superior Winds is an auditioned ensemble of winds and percussion that performs the music of composers spanning five centuries, living and not, from all genders, ethnicities and genres. Also, SWS performs premiers, sometimes feature soloists from with the band, and invites renowned guest conductors and performing artists to work with us. Frank Battisti, Bill Berz, and Scott Robinson have recently been our guests.

 

Student playing the flute

Campus Concert Band

Register for: MUS1511
No Audition Required
Requirements: Prior band experience, open to all wind and percussion instrumentalists.
Semester: Spring

The Campus Concert Band plays a variety of traditional and contemporary concert band literature as well as popular works. It shares concerts with the Superior Wind Symphony on the stage of the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts. It also performs around the community at a variety of venues. If participation in the Campus Concert Band in the Spring interests you, please go ahead and put MUS1511 on your schedule when you register for the second semester. If your class schedule presents a conflict with any portion of rehearsal or you are an incoming student that would like to learn more about auditioned ensembles, please contact Jana Meckler.

Huskies Pep Band

No Audition Required
Contact Advisor to schedule around rehearsals

From its humble beginnings in 1928 as the Michigan Tech ROTC Band under the baton of E.E. Melville, the Michigan Tech Huskies Pep Band has grown to become one of the most recognized bands in all of college hockey.  The Huskies Pep Band is open to any Michigan Tech student that likes it louder, faster, and higher! The first step is to email schedule@mtu.edu to make sure pep band fits into your first-semester schedule to avoid conflicts with rehearsals. Bassists and guitarists should contact Drew Kilpela so appropriate accommodations can be made.

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Hear More, Lost Less with EarPeace

We're a rather...enthusiastic band, meaning we make a lot of noise. 116 decibels worth of it, in fact! At that level, your hearing is safe for less than 1 minute without protection. That's why we've paired up with EarPeace and their mission to save the world's hearing. As our official hearing protection partner, EarPeace is providing high-fidelity music earplugs to the Huskies Pep Band so they can bang, blow, or blast their instruments without fear of damaging their ability to hear the wonderful ruckus that they're producing. Learn more about the importance of healthy hearing.

Practice Rooms Available

Practice rooms are available in both the Rozsa center and in the dormitories. There is no cost to use these spaces.

Please check the schedules in the individual spaces for when these rooms are available.

Instrument Lockers

Instrument lockers are available to students playing in a Michigan Tech ensemble for $25 per year. Locks are provided. If you would like a locker, please contact Tanya Maki to make arrangements.

Need an Instrument?

Tubas, Percussion, Mellophones, Baritones, Bari Saxes, and Bass Clarinets are available. Limited numbers of other instruments are available on a first come first serve basis. Check schedule for check out time and dates. No charge.